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Sagar Thakkar
Projects

Selected work.

Case studies from production. Approach and solution details on call - what's here is the problem and the verified outcomes.

case-01.md FinTech

High-Frequency Trading Engine

Cut a Tier-1 trading engine's p99 from ~6s to ~1.8s - no full rewrite, audit trail intact, ~40% lower infra cost.

Legacy 10-yr monolith at p99 ~6s. Sub-2s commitment to the board next quarter. 12 engineers, no full rewrite budget. SEBI audit trail non-negotiable.

P99 Latency
~6s → ~1.8s
board commitment met
Infra Cost
~40% lower
same workload
Audit Loss
0
intermittent → zero
Java/Kotlin Kafka Redis Kubernetes AWS
case-02.md InsurTech

Claims Platform Modernisation

Took a 12-year insurer off an ESB monolith - ~40% lower cloud bill ($20k→$12k/mo), 100% audit-trail completeness.

$20,000/month AWS bill on a flat workload - rising while usage didn't. Adjuster turnaround slipping. Regulator demanding audit-trail upgrade. ESB vendor lock-in.

Cloud Cost
$20k→$12k/mo
~40% saved
Audit Trail
100%
partial → complete
Claims Speed
↑ materially
after ESB removal
Java Spring Boot RabbitMQ PostgreSQL AWS EKS
case-03.md AI / Internal

51-Agent AI Orchestration System

Designed and operate a 51-agent orchestration system end-to-end. Not a demo - runs daily.

Most agent systems fail because they're designed like chatbots. Clear orchestrator → lead → specialist routing, failure modes, and observability were absent from every existing reference architecture.

Agents
51
orchestrator + leads + specialists
Uptime
Daily ops
not a demo, in active use
Architecture
3-tier
orchestrator → leads → specialists
LLM APIs LangChain Langfuse Python Node.js
case-04.md FinTech

MintGenie - Investment Platform

All-in-one finance/investment app. High-frequency transaction engine with 2-second latency target.

Series-A fintech needing a production-grade transaction engine and a team of 28 shipped to deadline against regulatory requirements.

Latency
2s
transaction engine target met
Team
28
cross-functional
Infra
EKS
AWS CI/CD, CDN
Java 11 Spring Cloud Kafka MongoDB Redis K8s
case-05.md IoT

Ensurity - IoT Device Platform

Scaled a production IoT platform from 2,500 to 50,000+ concurrent devices - a 20x jump - via system and database redesign.

Platform hitting a hard ceiling at 2,500 concurrent devices while the fleet kept growing. The real-time telemetry pipeline had to survive the jump, not just the connection count.

Devices
2.5k → 50k+
20x concurrent scale
Telemetry
Real-time
pipeline redesigned
Team
7
lead architect
Java Node.js React IoTDB Kafka AWS K8s
case-06.md FinTech

Ila Bank - Core Modernisation

Migrated 25 microservices of a live digital bank to Java 17 and built the Spring Cloud gateway - inside a 100-person programme.

Legacy services aging out of support across a live retail bank. The migration had to land with zero downtime while feature delivery continued in parallel.

Services
25
migrated to Java 17
Gateway
Built new
request aggregation
Programme
100 eng
backend lead
Java 17 Spring Cloud Gateway React PostgreSQL AWS EKS
case-07.md AI / Voice

Neobrain - AI Voice Agent

Autonomous AI telecalling agent with a real-time voice pipeline at 300-450ms latency - model-agnostic by design.

Outbound lead-gen needed a voice agent that holds a natural phone conversation over Twilio. Latency above half a second breaks the illusion and the call.

Voice Latency
300-450ms
TTS/STT round trip
Models
Agnostic
OpenAI / Polly / Sarvam
Team
4
architect + engineer
Python Java Rust React Twilio AWS
case-08.md GovTech

Lek Ladki Yojana - GovTech Platform

Welfare-scheme platform tuned for 200,000+ applications a day at peak - citizen registration through benefit disbursement.

State welfare scheme with Aadhaar-authenticated registration and peak-day surges a default Spring Boot deployment could not absorb.

Peak Load
200k+/day
applications sustained
Identity
UIDAI
Aadhaar-authenticated
Team
6
lead architect
Java Spring Boot AWS

More engagements.

Delivery work without a single headline number - listed for completeness, not sold as case studies. Details on call.

Pow.re
FinTech / Crypto · Lead Architect · team 9
Greenfield Bitcoin mining-pool payout-transparency analytics. Next.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Kafka monorepo on EKS.
Tarabut
Open Banking · Backend Lead · team 12
Open-banking services on Spring Boot across AWS and Azure Kubernetes.
OldMutual
Enterprise · Architect · team 32
Azure data-integration platform. GraphQL, MongoDB, Angular.
OTT Play
Media · Technical Lead · team 20
Streaming platform delivery on AWS EKS. Next.js and Angular fronts.
1PAY
FinTech · Team Lead · team 10
Monolith to microservices: Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis.
DSG
FinTech · Architect · team 10
Blockchain-backed gold e-commerce platform on Azure.
Xunison
IoT · Frontend Lead
MQTT real-time streaming UIs running on constrained devices.
Prudent Experts
Insurance · Team Lead · 4 yrs
Monolith to microservices, +30% reliability. Innovation Leadership Award 2018.