Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect · Pune, India
7+ years building cloud-native, distributed systems in Go, Python, and TypeScript on GCP, AWS, and Azure. I work on microservices, gRPC / GraphQL APIs, and Multi-Agent AI systems (Google ADK, MCP, Vertex AI Agent Engine, LangChain, CrewAI).
🔭 What I'm working on right now
- Multi-agent AI systems for FinTech (Google ADK · MCP · Vertex AI Agent Engine)
- RAG and GraphRAG pipelines on AlloyDB AI and BigQuery Knowledge Graph
- Voice AI assistants (ElevenLabs + Gemini)
- Ongoing open-source contributions to Google's Spanner Migration Tool
📍 Open to Senior / Staff Engineer and Cloud Architect roles in FinTech, Open Banking, and GenAI infrastructure — Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Remote, EMEA.
📧 Reach me: i.pratikdhanave@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GCN 2022 talk
- 🎤 Speaker at Google Cloud Next 2022 — "Migrating Monolith Applications into Microservices"
- 🌍 Google Summer of Code — Contributor (2017–2018), Mentor (2019–2026); guided 10+ students on cloud-native and AI-native projects
- 💼 Productized Tata Group BigQuery cost-optimization engagement into Searce's GCP managed service offering — INR ₹100 Cr+ (~$12M) saved, 57% DW cost reduction
- 🎓 Google Cloud Generative AI Leader Professional Certificate
- 🎓 Google Cloud Specialization — Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP
- 🎓 Ardan Labs — Ultimate Go and Ultimate Services Go
- GoogleCloudPlatform/spanner-migration-tool (HarbourBridge) — core contributor. Built backend APIs for the Intelligent Schema Assistant, CDC pipelines (Datastream · Pub/Sub · Dataflow), and improved post-migration query performance by 40–60% through PK design, indexing, and table interleaving.
- leopardslab/gocloud — unified API library for managing cloud resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- skycoin/cx — enhanced the CX interpreter for deterministic blockchain transaction execution; implemented Pratt parser reducing parsing complexity by ~30%.
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Genie | Multi-agent financial assistant bridging LLMs with real-time banking APIs for autonomous advisory and predictive cash-flow analysis. Implements Google's multi-agent reference architecture. | Python · Google ADK · MCP · Vertex AI Agent Engine · FastAPI |
| MAI-DxO Diagnostic Agent Panel | Replicated Microsoft's Sequential Diagnostic Panel pattern with 5 role-specialized agents (Hypothesis, Challenger, Stewardship, Test Chooser, Checklist) and multi-model routing across Claude, GPT-O3, Gemini. | Python · ADK · multi-model |
| Bancnet | Open Banking portal for UAE (ADGM/DIFC) and Saudi (SAMA) with consent management, data residency, and RAG semantic search on AlloyDB AI — 37% latency reduction. | Python · FastAPI · RAG · pgvector · AlloyDB AI |
| Optimus | Gemini-powered BigQuery analyzer detecting SQL anti-patterns (full scans, inefficient joins, missing partition filters); delivered 57% cost reduction. | Python · Gemini API · BigQuery |
| Kinetic India Voice Assistant for Bike | Conversational voice AI for two-wheeler riders — diagnostics, service booking, ride telemetry. | Python · ElevenLabs · Gemini |
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Brownlow | Zero-trust voting platform for the AFL Brownlow Medal — 100K+ votes, 10K+ concurrent users on Cloud Run during live broadcasts, secured with Cloud KMS + Security Command Center. | Go · GraphQL · gRPC · Cloud SQL · Pub/Sub |
| Globe | Kubernetes transaction platform handling 30K+ TPS for telecom/FinTech partner integrations — led 10 engineers, PCI-aligned, idempotent processing, error-code orchestration framework. | Go · Kubernetes · Kafka · Pub/Sub · Redis |
| Picnic | Social platform backend serving 1M+ users — reduced API response latency 47% via protobuf contracts and service consolidation; led a remote-first team of 4. | Go · gRPC · GraphQL · Cloud Spanner |
| P2P Financial Lending Platform | Lending platform processing 5K+ loans/month with double-entry ledger, 3+ credit bureaus, payment gateways, KYC/AML, fraud detection, maker-checker RBAC. | Go · PostgreSQL |
Languages — Go · Python · TypeScript · SQL
Cloud — GCP · AWS · Azure
GenAI / ML — Google ADK · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · A2A · Vertex AI Agent Engine · LangChain · LangGraph · CrewAI · AutoGen · Genkit · RAG · GraphRAG · BigQuery Knowledge Graph · pgvector · AlloyDB AI · Pinecone · Voice AI (ElevenLabs) · LLM-as-Judge · LangSmith · OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · Google Gemini · AWS Bedrock · Hugging Face · Ollama · MLOps · LLMOps
Backend — gRPC · GraphQL · REST · FastAPI · Gin · Django · Cloud Spanner · BigQuery · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · Apache Airflow · Pub/Sub
Infra & DevOps — Kubernetes · GKE · EKS · Helm · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Cloud Run · AWS Lambda · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry
Security & Compliance — Cloud IAM · KMS · HSM · Cloud Armor · VPC Service Controls · IAP · DLP · Binary Authorization · Security Command Center · JWT · OAuth 2.0 · OpenID Connect · Zero-Trust · SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · PCI-DSS · KYC/AML
Domain expertise — FinTech · Open Banking (UAE ADGM/DIFC, Saudi SAMA) · Enterprise AI Adoption · FinOps
Multi-Agent AI · Google ADK · MCP · Agentic Commerce · BigQuery Graph · LLM determinism · Genkit middleware · the production realities of building reliable AI systems on Google Cloud.
📖 Follow posts on LinkedIn (2,455+ followers).
- ✉️ Email — i.pratikdhanave@gmail.com
- 💼 LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/pratikdhanave
- 🐙 GitHub — you're already here 👀
Looking for senior engineering talent with deep backend + GenAI + multi-region compliance experience? Let's talk.
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