Consulting Cloud Native Architect - FinTech. 21+ years making enterprise systems fast, resilient and cost-efficient. ex-Mastercard.
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🔭 Currently working on Modernizing a 20-year-old platform and its engineering org with AI-augmented software engineering practices
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🌱 Currently exploring How AI-native engineering can bake architecture, performance engineering, resiliency, and cost-efficiency into building high-throughput / low-latency systems
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💼 Available for:
- Fractional CTO role
- Hands-on architectural consultancy (greenfield & modernization initiatives)
- AI-augmented software engineering practices
- Performance Engineering / Optimization (Application, Database, Infrastructure)
- Architecture Diagnostic Sprints
- Security audit and remediation
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📝 I write regularly at dhaval-shah.com
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💬 Ask me about Distributed Systems Architecture, Performance Engineering (application / DB / infrastructure), Cost optimization, AI augmented software engineering
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📫 Reach me: dhaval@dhaval-shah.com
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📄 Profile: Consulting Cloud Native Architect
- 🔗 se-ai-templates — Reusable AI-augmented prompt templates for ADRs, Performance Engineering, DB Optimization, SRE, FinOps & Cost Optimization
- 🔗 Beyond Throughput with Virtual Threads — JDK vs. Spring Reactor virtual threads, real throughput data
- 🔗 PostgreSQL optimization study — 10M-row payment dataset, EXPLAIN ANALYZE and optimization walkthrough
- 🔗 IRIS cross-cloud file transfer — AWS S3 → Azure Blob, Spring Boot/Project Reactor, Adaptive concurrency
- 🔗 Billion User Trap — the pagination mistake that can take down your database
- Part 2 - Teaching It to Look Things Up: Tools, Spring AI and Conversations at Once
- Part 1 - Multiple Runs : Why Deterministic Thinking Breaks!
- Part 0 - The Dispute That No Rule Could Catch: What AI-Native Really Means in Enterprise Java
- The Latency Lie: How Ready Pods Were Quietly Costing a FinTech
- The Architect's Dilemma: Validating a Vibe-Coded MVP for Regulated Industries
