VINOD KUMAR SHARMA

Solution Architect • Author • Educator
vinodsharma.in
github.com/edorei
github.com/vinod-kumar-sharma
1,500x
Throughput Increase
8
Business Units Served
2
Patents Filed
14+
Years Experience
Professional Summary

Solution Architect with 14+ years of experience delivering high-impact enterprise systems across finance, commodity trading, and travel. Proven track record of increasing throughput by 1,500x, eliminating costly licensing dependencies, and architecting platforms serving multiple global business units. Skilled in system design, microservice architecture, and leading engineering teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Certifications & Expertise
AWS Certified Terraform Snowflake Kubernetes Java Python Kafka OpenSearch
Work Experience
JPMorgan Chase & Co. – Vice President - Solution Architect
Feb 2021 – Present • 5+ yrs
Bangalore, Karnataka
  • Increased throughput by 1,500x, modernised legacy codebase, scaling event processing from 100 events/min to 1.5 lakh events/min using Kafka with compact topics
  • Reduced operational costs by modularising and refactoring legacy code to current engineering standards, improving maintainability and developer velocity
  • Designed the core event-driven framework that became the foundation for all subsequent platform development
  • Architected technology solutions that consistently exceeded performance benchmarks set in project specifications
Olam International – Senior Lead Engineer
Oct 2015 – Feb 2021 • 5 yrs 4 mos
Bangalore, Karnataka
OPERA
Olam Portfolio Evaluation Risk & Analytics
  • Enterprise-grade trade capture and P&L monitoring across 8 global business units (Agri, Commodity, Quant, Coco, Coffee, Cotton, Sugar, Grains)
  • Saved ~$2,400/year by eliminating MATLAB licensing. Built Java classes via MATLAB Compiler SDK, deployed as JARs via RMI
SCORE
Commodity Trading & Risk Management
  • Built score.olamnet.com, a production CTRM platform for commodity trading across Olam Group
  • Designed reactive microservice architecture using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, WebSocket with Apache load balancing
  • Recognised with Outstanding Performance Awards (2017, 2018) and Team of the Year (2017)
Paxterra Software Solutions – Senior Software Developer
Apr 2013 – Oct 2015 • 2 yrs 6 mos
Bangalore, Karnataka
  • Built YatraGenie Hotels (yatragenie.com/hotels), a high-performance hotel booking platform serving thousands of daily transactions
  • Developed role-based operator and agent panels, streamlining booking management and reducing manual overhead
Patents
Metadata Driven API
Granted 2025 • Filed 2023
Dynamically generating API endpoints using metadata definitions, eliminating hardcoded routes across services.
Facade Routing
Patent Pending • Filed 2024
Unified facade layer to abstract and orchestrate requests across multiple backend microservices.
Published Case Study
Olam CFSG Trade Management System
Featured by MathWorks • Impact: $2,400/yr saved
Built Java classes from MATLAB algorithms using MATLAB Compiler SDK, deployed as JAR files via RMI, eliminating annual licensing costs.
Technical Skills
Java Python TypeScript SQL Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring MVC Hibernate Kafka REST JPA React Angular Next.js Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure Terraform Snowflake Elasticsearch OpenSearch Redis PostgreSQL MongoDB JUnit Mockito LLM / AI / ML Agentic Architecture
Education
MCA - Master of Computer Application
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology
Bhopal, MP • 2012 • GPA: 71%
BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application
GICT's
Gwalior, MP • 2009 • GPA: 65%