Gaurav Saxena
Technical Lead | Java | Microservices | Banking | Capital Markets
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Technical Lead with 13+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across Banking, Payments, FinTech, and Capital Markets. Proven track record of building high-volume transaction systems and delivering scalable, secure, high-performance solutions.
Current Role: Technical Lead, NPST
Leading UPI platform engineering for Canara Bank with focus on mandates, AutoPay, merchant onboarding, payouts, and reliability at scale.
- Location: Noida, India
- Email: saxenagau@gmail.com
- Experience: 13+ Years
- Education: B.Tech (Information Technology)
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gauravworks
Experienced in leading teams, owning production outcomes, and collaborating with business and architecture stakeholders across global financial institutions including Morgan Stanley and Canara Bank.
Key Achievements
Impact-driven delivery across high-scale distributed systems.
Million+ Transactions/Day at enterprise scale
Performance Improvement via API and query optimization
Incident Reduction through observability improvements
Operational Automation in reporting workflows
Skills
Scalable system, backend engineering, cloud-native delivery and leadership in mission-critical domains.
Core Technical Skills
Leadership & Delivery
Resume
Professional journey across banking, payments, and capital markets with consistent focus on scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence.
Profile Summary
Gaurav Saxena
Technical Lead with deep expertise in Java, Spring ecosystem, microservices architecture, and enterprise-grade transaction platforms.
- Noida, India
- saxenagau@gmail.com
Certifications
Oracle Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Education
Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology)
2006 - 2010
HSC
2005 - 2006
SSC
2003 - 2004
Languages
English | Hindi
Professional Experience
Technical Lead | NPST
Jan 2026 - Present | Noida, India
UPI Platform - Canara Bank | Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, Oracle, AWS, Kafka
- Leading development of UPI payment solutions for mandates, AutoPay, merchant onboarding, and payouts.
- Designed and scaled microservices handling 10+ million daily transactions.
- Leading a team of 4 engineers across development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Improved backend performance by 25% and reduced production incidents by 35%.
- Automated reporting and operational processes, improving efficiency by 65%.
Lead Consultant | Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
Feb 2021 - Dec 2025 | Noida, India
Soft Dollar - Morgan Stanley | Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Sybase
- Developed backend services for enterprise billing and invoice management.
- Built REST APIs for invoice generation, draft workflows, and approvals.
- Implemented automated billing and batch-processing jobs.
- Improved application performance by 35% while supporting production systems within SLA.
Associate Consultant | Infogain India Pvt Ltd
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021 | Noida, India
Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle, SQL, REST APIs, React
- Built enterprise applications using Java and Spring technologies.
- Designed technical specifications and solution documentation.
- Handled UAT, defect management, and production support activities.
- Automated reporting workflows reducing manual effort by 65%.
Associate Consultant | Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015 | Pune, India
Java, Oracle, SQL, Web Services, Struts
- Contributed to solution development and project delivery.
- Prepared technical and business proposals.
- Participated in planning and risk management activities.
Junior Software Engineer | CGS India Pvt Ltd
Feb 2012 - Aug 2013 | Hyderabad, India
Java, JSP, Servlets, Oracle, MySQL
- Developed and maintained enterprise applications.
- Performed debugging, testing, and issue resolution.
Tech Blogs
Technical writing focused on practical Java engineering. New blog posts are always added at the top.
Contact
Open to engineering leadership opportunities, architecture discussions, and collaboration in Java/Spring ecosystems.
Let us build robust platforms together
For project discussions or collaboration, drop an email at saxenagau@gmail.com.
- Java platform modernization and performance engineering
- Spring-based microservices architecture and delivery
- Production stability, observability, and incident reduction