Sameer Gauba
Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, resilient backend systems across fintech, telecom, and creative software domains. At Adobe, I contribute to the Firefly product, enabling Generative AI across Adobe’s creative suite. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, and cloud-native architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD), I also have a growing interest in Machine Learning applications. Currently Working on 3P LLM GW that provides access of models, like GPT, Gemini, Claude to various products of Adobe. I'm passionate about solving distributed systems challenges and have consistently improved system reliability and performance in previous roles at Paytm, T-Systems, Circles Life, and more. I had been an integral part of paytm payments gateway team. Worked on different bank integrations and genralising error code from different banks and financial services to paytm mapped error codes. Also worked on success rate management to improve the success rate of all the transactions passing through the system. The systems built by us handles 300 tps at peak. ✅ Microservices Architecture | ✅ Java Reactive | ✅ CI/CD | ✅ Cloud Config Management | ✅ Generative AI | ✅ ML Foundations Always open to connect on backend innovation, platform engineering, and AI-powered systems.
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About
AI Enabled Software Engineer with an experience in deployment and scaling of microservice based backend applications and a keen interest in Machine Learning.
Experience
Computer Scientist at Adobe (2021-06 – Present)
Working on 3P LLM Gateway and backend systems for Firefly, Adobe's Generative AI platform.
- Working on 3P LLM GW that provides access of models, like GPT, Gemini, Claude to various products of Adobe.
- Developed backend systems for Firefly, Adobe's Generative AI platform integrated across the creative suite.
- Designed and maintained scalable Java-based microservices to serve AI models in production. Currently handling 5K RPM in Prod.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with ML and frontend teams to enable real-time AI image generation.
Software Engineer at Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs (T-Systems Gurgaon) (2020-03 – 2021-06)
Building a config manager system for microservices using spring cloud bus.
- Building a config manager system which will be used by different microservices to manage their configs and updating the configs automatically when changed, using spring cloud bus.
- This allowed to reduce the number of deployments in a month to 40%.
Senior Software Engineer at Circles Life (2020-02 – 2020-03)
Worked on SISTIC App for event management and ticket booking.
- Worked on their SISTIC App, which was used to manage events in Singapore and book tickets for the same.
Software Engineer at T-Systems Gurgaon (2019-08 – 2020-01)
Worked on KeyCloak modification and Telekom-based applications.
- Worked on changing source code of key cloak (open source), to support email code verification while logging in to our systems.
- Worked on Telekom based app known as OneApp.
Software Engineer at Paytm (2018-05 – 2019-08)
Worked on Payment Gateway and backend services for Paytm Assist.
- Worked on Payment Gateway to improve the success rate of transactions going through the systems.
- Planned and created Paytm Assist to provide backend services to android. Paytm Assist is used to autofill OTP when sent by banks during a payment done through Paytm App. Backend was required to serve configurations based on certain filters.
- Applied Retry mechanism for Bank Form Fetch Service, during payment request. This improved the success rate of transactions from 74% to 75%.
Software Engineer at To The New (2016-07 – 2018-05)
Worked on HDFC Mutual Funds Distributor Portal and Maxlife Insurance.
- Worked on HDFC Mutual Funds : Distributor Portal and Maxlife Insurance.
- Designed various REST api's to access transaction details for listing and to make various transactions through the distributor portal.
Education
B.Tech in Computer Science – Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology (GGSIPU) (2012-07 – 2016-05)
