Kshitiz Anand

Staff Software Engineer @Intuit | B.Tech NIT Rourkela

 anandkshitiz@gmail.com

  +91-9972306960

About Me

I am a Backend Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience in developing complex and large-scale enterprise applications. I specialize in designing and building highly scalable, available, secure, and fault-tolerant systems from the ground up. My expertise includes writing clean, efficient, and responsive code in multiple programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript. I am a strong advocate for leveraging GenAI, Machine Learning, and Data Science to address real-world and software engineering challenges. My approach is characterized by diligence, transparency, and a commitment to leading and mentoring teams with a positive attitude while solving complex problems.

Core Skills

Low Level & High Level System Design
Full Stack Software Development
Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking
Data Structure & Algorithms
DevOps
Mentoring & Collaboration

Technologies

Education

B.Tech from National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela(NIT Rourkela)
2008 - 2012
CGPA : 8.56/10

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at Intuit, Bengaluru
Jan, 2022 - Present
Project Business, Technical Impact & Role Technologies
QuickBooks Advanced

Business Impact:
  • Led team in launching Custom Dimensions for 250K QBO Advanced customers
  • Led development and release of various features like Disposal, Global features and Draft Assets for Fixed Assets Management module in QBO Advanced
  • Led Fixed Assets Management team in reducing Rum FCI(Failed Customer Interaction) alerts from ~30/day to 0

Technical Impact:
  • Spearheaded technical design and implementation of Custom Dimension for QuickBooks Entities
  • Created end-to-end tech design to implement Custom Dimension in Transaction Line Items and Transaction Forms.
  • Defined Hexagonal Design Pattern and guided team in design and implementation of the right architecture pattern
  • Led discussions with stakeholders on various aspects of location in QBO and technical feasibility of implementing uber level Location for various use cases in QuickBooks
  • Led Fixed Assets Management team in implementing Canary Deployment Strategy
  • Contributed >50 PRs across various code repositories in QuickBooks
  • Defined createdByApp and updatedBy App decision for every service in QBO

Role:
  • Technichal Lead, Individual Contributor & Architect

 Java, Springboot Kafka Postgres Supergraph Kubernetes AWS
GenAI Powered Incident Resolver

Business Impact:
  • Reduces MTTD(Mean Time To Detect) and MTTR(Mean Time To Resolve) of microservices by creating acting on a GenAI generated execution plan

Technical Impact:
  • Created High Level and Low level design for Incident Analyzer, Incident Troubleshooter and Action Item Executor
  • With the help of 2 member team impplemented the MVP of the solution to 5 services across Intuit

Role:
  • Builder & Architect

 Python Langchain SDK GPT-3.5 Embeddings In Memory Vector DB
Batch Processing Platform

  • Improved BPP Cluster’s scaling capacity by enabling multi-cluster support to execute SPOK pipelines
  • Designed and executed Chaos Testing in BPP
  • Defined modus-operandi to perform FMEA for Batch Processing Platform and spearheaded the FMEA of all the components of BPP

 Java, Python Argo Workflows & Events Kubernetes Spark AWS
Datalake Access Platform

  • Successfully finished a POC to evaluate solution for FGAC in Intuit Datalake. The insights from this POC are crucial for Intuit's path towards implementing FGAC in Datalake
  • Created cross account Test Framework for integration testing of SpringBoot APIs
  • Implementing integration of DLAP with Intuit Data Product
  • Improved Data Steward Approval Experince using React App and SpringBoot APIs

Java, Springboot ReactJS AWS
Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Athena Health(athenahealth), Chennai
Jul, 2020 - Dec, 2021
Project: Athena’s Decision Engine Platform Development

  • Led Decision Engine platform development which provides highly available, scalable, resilient, secured, fault tolerant and event driven(using Kafka) microservices for processing 1000 requests per second for Athena’s 116K+ customers.
  • Consistently wrote and reviewed high quality code with >95% test coverage
  • Created processes for Continuous Integration,Deployment and Testing(CI/CD) and brought pure DevOps culture for decisions development.

Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Athena Health(athenahealth), Chennai
April, 2018 - June, 2020
Project: Athena’s Decision Engine Platform Development

  • Developed scalable, secure and resilient microservices and event driven archiving platform (using Kafka) for processing claims across Athena’s 115K+ providers.
  • Provisioned AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, API Gateway, CI-CD pipeline, Kafka) on which this platform runs.
  • Wrote high quality code with 98% test coverage.
  • Implemented real time monitoring and alert management using Prometheus to show system and API metrics in Grafana dashboard.

Programmer ​ ​Analyst - 3 at Oracle, Bengaluru
November, 2016 - March, 2018
Various applications in Oracle Cloud for Oracle Supply Chain Management

  • Application development on Oracle Cloud
  • Responsible for software design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of New applications on Oracle cloud.
  • Entrepreneur in Oracle: As an enthusiastic entrepreneur inside Oracle, I am pursuing on a business idea based on Artificial Intelligence and Voice Commands.

Programmer ​ ​Analyst - 2 at Oracle, Bengaluru
Jul 2015 – October 2016
Various applications in Oracle Cloud for Oracle Supply Chain Management

  • Application development on Oracle Cloud
  • Responsible for software design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of New applications on Oracle cloud.
  • Entrepreneur in Oracle: As an enthusiastic entrepreneur inside Oracle, I am pursuing on a business idea based on Artificial Intelligence and Voice Commands.

Software Engineer at Dassault Systemes, Pune & Bengaluru
July, 2012 - June, 2015
Various applications in DS 3D-Experience platform in C++

Used 3D Experience platform’s C++ SDK to develop unique solutions to create MBOM from EBOM, to convert designs and animations from Delmia’s format to 3DVIA Studio, import CAD constraints from legacy systems to 3D Experience platform.

Awards

Intuit India Super Star Award for FY22 Q3
2022
Technical Excellence in Batch Processing Platform(BPP)
Winner(1st) Athena Hackathon
2019
Voice based intelligent assistant to schedule Doctor’s appointment
Winner(3rd) Oracle Applications Lab Hackathon
2017
Dashboard to monitor applications deployed in Oracle Public Cloud
ORACLE 1M By 1M $1000 Scholarship
(Autumn 2015)
Personal Virtual Assistant to schedule meetings
Dassault Systemes Innovation Forwards 2013-14 winner
2013
Manikin animation in 3DVIA Virtual Studio
Dassault Systemes Star Performer
2013-2014

Interests