Ramakant Badolia

Tech Lead | AI Enabled | DevOps | Systems Design

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

• Software engineering professional with experience in building, deploying and maintaining large scale, robust and highly available distributed software applications. • Experience with building teams, digital transformations, Agile & modern engineering practices, delivery of large and complex engineering projects with tangible and stellar business outcomes. • Experience in leading and mentoring teams of 5+ members in designing and building software solutions. • Leading initiatives to build a strong engineering community and culture in teams. Advocating and promoting open-source benefits for better and cost-effective results. • Strong hands-on experience in developing microservices in Java, Spring, Springboot • Focus on Maintainability, Observability and Cost effectiveness of cloud native application development.

Experience

  • TomTom (Full-time · 7 yrs 9 mos)
    • SDE 4
      Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Leading AI-driven engineering initiatives to deliver high-fidelity, real-time traffic data to millions of global end-points, including PNDs, Automotive OEMs, and Mobile applications. AI-Enhanced Development: Architecting workflows using Agentic AI (Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate the SDLC, boosting development efficiency and code quality. Scalable Architecture: Spearheading the development of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to integrate real-time traffic intelligence with AI chat interfaces. Strategic Collaboration: Partnering with cross-functional teams to launch features that maximize ROI while maintaining a customer-centric product roadmap. Mentorship & Leadership: Upskilling junior engineers in modern tech stacks, ensuring rapid onboarding and high-performing team dynamics.

    • SDE 3
      Nov 2018 - Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      - Developing and maintaining microservices which are serving maps content to almost 16 million cars. - Responsible for maintaining infrastructure in Azure cloud - CI/CD (Jenkins/Github Actions). - Leading engineering initiatives to design and develop solutions to the functional and non-functional business requirements. - Responsible for maintaining infrastructure in Azure cloud. - Collaborating with multiple teams to bring the innovation forward and build a better and safer world for all (Active member of TomTom Lab’s Hackathons).

  • Software Development Engineer 1 at Tesco Technology
    Mar 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Developed cloud-native microservices for Tesco (Point/Coupon service) Spring, Spring Boot, Java, Couchbase, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernates, Apache Kafka.

  • Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt. Ltd (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Technical Lead
      Apr 2015 - Jan 2016 · 10 mos

      • Manage back-end scrum team and responsible for system design. • Responsible for micro-services oriented scalable back-end systems. • Involved in development of very complex LIMS application for drug discovery and AgroSciences scientific domains. • Traveled to Luxembourg to understand existing software solutions and receive KT from onsite team members.

    • Principal Software Developer
      Apr 2013 - Mar 2015 · 2 yrs

      Developed LIMS system for Agroscience. Helping new team members on understanding existing solutions. Code gatekeeper for maintaining quality from different developers in the team. Coordinating with different teams such as test team, release team, BAs, FAs, Product owners etc. Training and Recruitment.

  • Sr. Software Developer at Tech Mahindra
    Jun 2012 - Mar 2013 · 10 mos

    • Worked as an individual contributor to design and develop one of the major products for RF field engineers. • Worked on algorithms to identify faults in the system and give appropriate on-time results to field engineer so that they can repair system even before a customer complains. • Worked with a big amount of data files (GBs) to fetch call related data which can be feed in the system to study the network.

  • Software Engineer at ABB
    Feb 2011 - May 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Worked with one of the core CoE team in Norway, to develop their next generation products such as Process Insight and ViMon (Vibration Monitor) which helps in detecting faults in various mechanical instruments implanted in FPSOs. • Worked on various custom controls to suit business requirements of complex graphical representations of time series data. • Took both the products live which helped ABB in saving millions due to early fault detection.