Senior Software Engineer
Rudrasinh
Jadeja
Full-stack engineer with nearly 20 years of experience building enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems — and leading the teams that run them.
About
I've worked as a software engineer since 2007, starting with large-scale J2EE systems and moving into cloud infrastructure, high-volume data pipelines, and, most recently, LLM-powered search and retrieval. Today I lead a DevOps team that runs Kubernetes across public-cloud and air-gapped environments, and I help other engineering teams adopt reliable deployment practices. Across that work I put reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity first, whether I'm writing the code myself or mentoring the engineers who do.
Education
B.S., Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Minor in Philosophy · May 2007
M.S., Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
May 2012
Experience
Maryland Research
Aug 2021 – Present
Senior Software Engineer
- Lead a 10-person DevOps team that defines and prioritizes deployment models and operational processes for the broader engineering organization.
- Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines that pair Elasticsearch vector search with LLM APIs to deliver context-aware answers from internal documents.
- Implemented a section-aware chunking strategy for vector embeddings that improved retrieval relevance and showed users exactly where in a document each answer came from.
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes clusters across public-cloud and air-gapped environments.
- Automate cluster provisioning with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Develop Spring Boot microservices and deliver them to Kubernetes through GitOps workflows.
- Guide development teams through their migration from a legacy container orchestration platform to Kubernetes.
- Mentor junior engineers and DevOps staff, promoting continuous learning and engineering best practices.
Applied Insight
Nov 2017 – Aug 2021
Senior Cloud Software Engineer
- Architected a real-time Apache Storm streaming pipeline that analyzed roughly 50 TB of data per day.
- Led the team's architectural shift from a monolithic application to microservices.
- Built automation to provision and maintain AWS and Azure accounts and resources for more than 4,000 users.
- Evaluated AWS and Azure services and defined IAM permission boundaries to meet customer security requirements.
- Wrote Terraform and Ansible code to provision Kubernetes clusters.
- Containerized existing applications and ran them on Kubernetes, managed through Rancher.
- Developed custom Apache NiFi processors for ETL on large datasets.
- Wrote MapReduce jobs for batch analysis across multi-terabyte Accumulo clusters.
- Built React UI prototypes to put working software in front of customers early and shorten feedback cycles.
- Maintained Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
KeyW
Feb 2014 – Nov 2017
Software Engineer
- Led the modernization of a large-scale J2EE enterprise application while keeping the legacy codebase running in parallel.
- Helped introduce Spring Data for persistence and Jersey for REST endpoints, easing the move off the legacy stack.
- Wrote Bash and Ruby scripts for system maintenance and migration from the legacy platform.
- Built and maintained a custom build and deployment toolchain on TeamCity.
- Used Splunk for application metrics and log management to speed up troubleshooting.
- Designed reusable front-end JavaScript components to meet changing client UI requirements.
- Advised on design and implementation so engineering deliverables matched the client's goals.
Vertical Applications
Nov 2012 – Feb 2014
Senior Consultant
- Designed, developed, and maintained a case management system on a J2EE back end.
- Implemented SOAP and REST web services using Spring Web Services.
- Standardized IBM MQ integration across the project using Spring JMS.
- Refactored legacy JNDI lookups to Spring JNDI for cleaner abstraction and consistency.
- Set up continuous integration with Ant build and deployment scripts run through Jenkins.
- Stood up MySQL-based development environments so work could proceed before the permanent Oracle environment was ready.
Raytheon
Sep 2008 – Nov 2012
Software Engineer
- Played a key role in a major rewrite of a core system component that increased daily ingest by millions of records.
- Served as primary developer working with Terracotta engineers to tune the system's distributed caching.
- Developed key components of a J2EE enterprise application using Spring, Hibernate, Terracotta, and Ehcache on JBoss.
- Built front-end features with Spring MVC, Dojo, and DWR, integrated with back-end services.
- Wrote Groovy scripts for performance testing of SOAP web services.
- Created XSLTs and IBM DataPower processing rules for XML transformation.
- Wrote Maven build tasks and mentored developers on CI best practices with Jenkins.
- Worked across the full development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through testing and client support.
Infosys Technologies
Jul 2007 – Sep 2008
Software Engineer
- Completed a three-month foundation training program in Mysore, India, on J2EE and Enterprise JavaBeans development, graduating with a 4.8/5.0 GPA.
- Maintained and enhanced client software for the Communications, Multimedia, and Entertainment (CME) unit in Chennai, India, as part of a global delivery team.
Skills
Languages
AI & Search
Frontend
Backend & Data
Databases
Cloud & Infrastructure
DevOps & Tooling
Certifications