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Santosh Tripathi

Open to work20 years experience

Engineering Leader

San Ramon, California, United StatesTarget Roles: Backend Engineer • Full-Stack Developer • Frontend Specialist

Engineering Leader, Payments Platforms | Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud-Native at Scale

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kafkaevent-driven architecturepaymentsmicroservicesjavaspring bootcassandracloud-nativesalesforce marketing cloudliquibasejaxbsoapflexhibernatejavascriptjdbcswingsqldevops

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Work Experience

Technical Lead

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Apr 2025 - Present San Francisco, CA
  • Providing technical leadership for the enterprise-wide replatforming of Williams-Sonoma's payment systems, from legacy architecture to microservices.
  • Leading the migration to a microservices-based payments platform supporting $3 billion transactions in annual volume across 9 brands.
  • Leading globally distributed engineering teams across the US, Canada, and the UK (8 engineers) to deliver against regulatory and scalability requirements for high-volume global transactions.
  • Partnering with Product, Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure leadership to define target-state architecture and drive adoption across 5 dependent teams.

Staff Software Engineer

Albertsons Companies

Sep 2022 - Feb 2025 Pleasanton, California, United States
  • Led the design and development effort for API-based data feeds for real-time data seeding providing a scalable alternative to traditional file-based batch data feeds, leveraging Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs which reduced data issues in Email Campaigns.
  • Played an instrumental role in the migration from Adobe Campaign Standard to Salesforce Marketing Cloud, creating robust data pipelines through effective coordination with cross-functional teams.
  • Spearheaded the seamless migration of microservices to a new tech stack (Java/Spring Boot), from PLAY framework in Loyalty space demonstrating exceptional cross-functional collaboration working with an iterative rollout strategy.
  • Championed the transformation of database DevOps practices by implementing an automated pipeline for DDL execution using Liquibase for Cassandra databases, streamlining deployment processes.

Principal Engineer

Gap

Mar 2018 - Sep 2022 San Francisco Bay Area
  • SME/Tech Lead in the Checkout Services team responsible for all the modernization efforts at Gap Inc.
  • Redesigned the ECOM monolith and carved out post-processors based on event driven architecture which reduced the time of checkout flow by 50% and resulted in better reprocessing on order failures.
  • Developed different microservices to perform various checkout operations impacting user flow as a part of modernization effort and porting apps to the cloud.
  • Improved resiliency and performed scaling and performance optimizations for the apps to support peak traffic.
  • Played a key role in the DEVOPS transformation for the checkout team creating templates for alerts and monitoring dashboard to be used across the organization and having all the ops level visibility.

Principal Engineer

Avenue Code

Apr 2015 - Sep 2022 San Francisco Bay Area
  • Lead developer for the microservices development used to manage different types of reward certificates for the Loyalty program.
  • Led the development efforts for the Dragonfly services framework for internal projects to Avenue Code.
  • Built internal tools for loading large number of certificate data periodically to the system and large amount of data to be exported periodically to be fed to third party systems.

Senior Software Engineer

Deloitte

Jun 2014 - Apr 2015
  • Key contributor in the implementation of a NextGen Integrated Eligibility System (IES) that provides real-time eligibility determinations and creates a common portal for DSS employees and users to process and management multiple HHS programs.

Senior Consultant

Cabela's

Mar 2013 - Jun 2014
  • Worked on design and development of various projects for Cabelas ecommerce website.
  • Design and development of strategic projects such as Sales Enhancement,SEO and webservices implementation.
  • Contributed as SME for various modules such as Restrictions, Checkout process, Bridge apis involving JAXB, and Store locator functionality.
  • Created various framework level components by extending the base Micros- Retail OCP(Open Commerce Platform).
  • Developed various JAXB related bridge apis to be used across Cabelas by different applications.
  • Developed Restriction apis for Shipping product restrictions for Cabelas.

Senior Software Engineer

Ciber India

Sep 2010 - Mar 2013 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Led offshore development team for QwikView Streamline functionality for the client T-Mobile U.S.
  • Implemented framework-level custom Flex components and LiveCycle functionalities using Java and SOAP-based web services.
  • Engineered robust event-handling systems and developed comprehensive FlexUnit test cases to ensure application reliability and performance.
  • Developed proof-of-concept implementations for Drools Planner and Drools Guvnor, and seamlessly integrated jQuery-based components.

Senior Software Engineer

Ness Technologies

Dec 2007 - Sep 2010 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Implemented the server-side logic for a robust ETL tool, leveraging Spring, Hibernate, and Java to ensure efficient data processing and transformation for the client Sparta Systems.
  • Spearheaded the development of project proofs-of-concept (POCs) and engineered reusable Flex components, while seamlessly integrating JavaScript Rich Text Editor (RTE) components.
  • Created custom Flex components used across the Advisor.
  • Redesigned and refactored the iText based PDF generation module.
  • Involved in java based OpenCms development which customizes and publishes website for loan-officers.

Software Engineer

Connexios Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd

Oct 2006 - Dec 2007
  • Involved in Object-oriented analysis, design and programming using various design patterns.
  • Developed data visualization for the interaction network with third party libraries such as JUNG and Prefuse.
  • Developed RMI/JNI based interfaces to connect to legacy systems.

Software Engineer

Kaizen Informatics

Nov 2005 - Oct 2006
  • Development of Java based Trading application.
  • Involved in Object-oriented analysis, design and programming using various design patterns.
  • Developed the front end using Swing.
  • Developed JDBC interfaces and Alert System for the “Auto Trade” application.

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About Details

Professional Bio

Engineering leader with 20+ years architecting and scaling distributed systems in retail and payments. Currently leading the enterprise-wide replatforming of payment systems at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. migrating from legacy architecture to microservices.

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University ( - 2026)

Executive Program, Chief Technology Officer

(2024 - 2025)

B.E in Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University (2001 - Present)

Languages: English, Hindi