RÉSUMÉ / 2026

Achal Kansal

Technical Lead · Software Engineer

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Profile

Technical Lead with 11+ years building reliable, high-scale backend systems. Experienced across Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, data stores, platform upgrades, security engineering and developer tooling.

Experience

Technical Lead — Info Edge (Naukri.com)

Own backend systems in the job-seeker journey, including Job Search & Apply, Apply with Naukri, One Tap Login and the central Login Service.

  • Lead high-traffic Java microservices where latency, caching and reliability are core concerns.
  • Modernize platform dependencies through Java 21 and Spring Boot upgrades, CVE remediation, and Jersey-to-Spring MVC migrations with regression coverage.

Developer & Security Lead — SAP Labs India

Built OData and REST master-data services on SAP Cloud Platform, including Business Partner Service and MDM Registry.

  • Led team security work through threat-modelling workshops and secure-design reviews.
  • Contributed to SAP Marketing products and an IoT in-store experience; received top performer, top contributor and SPOT awards.

Technical strengths

Backend: Java 8–21, Spring Boot, Jersey / JAX-RS, REST, OData, JPA / Hibernate, microservices.

Data & infrastructure: MySQL, Aerospike, MongoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, NGINX, Cloud Foundry, GitLab CI.

Additional: Android, Kotlin, Python, React, TypeScript, MCP servers, threat modelling.

Education

M.Tech, Software Engineering — BITS Pilani

BCA — GGSIP University, Delhi