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Atharva Patil

Software Engineer II

Summary

Software Engineer II with 3+ years building production systems at Mercedes-Benz R&D serving 450,000+ users. Architected platforms handling 10M+ daily requests, built a unified LLM gateway across 3 cloud providers, and developed custom Kubernetes controllers managing 100K+ jobs. Open source contributor to GitHub MCP Server (27k+ stars), Gitleaks, and TruffleHog.

Technical Skills

Backend Development: Golang, Python, Lua, FastAPI, Echo Framework, REST APIs, Microservices, Kafka, NATS JetStream, OAuth, OpenAPI/Swagger, Prometheus, Grafana
AI & LLM Engineering: MCP Server Development (Go/Python), Claude Code, Agentic AI, LangChain, vLLM (Self-hosted Inference), OpenAI API, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI
Databases: SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Database Migrations
DevOps & Infrastructure: Kubernetes (CRD Operators, Custom Controllers, Rolling Updates, HPA, PDB, Bare-metal Ops), Docker, Helm, Linux (Production Admin), ESXi, ProxMox, ELK Stack, AWS, Azure, GCP
API & Gateway: Kong Gateway, Convoy (Webhook Management), REST API Design, API Management, Event-driven Architecture
Automation & IaC: AI Automation Pipelines, Ansible, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code

Professional Experience

Software Engineer II

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India — Bangalore, India

Aug 2024 – Present

API Management & Gateway Platform

Go, Echo, Kong, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana

  • Designed enterprise API platform handling 10M+ requests/day with 99.95% uptime — Kong gateway, Kafka event streaming, Go microservices on multi-node Kubernetes
  • Implemented zero-downtime deployments (rolling updates, blue-green) and HPA handling 3x traffic spikes without latency degradation
  • Built observability layer — Grafana dashboards over Prometheus metrics tracking p99 latency, error rates, throughput, and pod utilization with real-time alerting

Custom Kubernetes Job Controller

Python, Kubernetes CRDs, Informer Pattern, Helm, Jinja2

  • Built custom controller watching multiple CRD types via informer pattern — auto-creates, rate-limits, and garbage-collects Jobs with exponential backoff retry
  • Handled 100,000+ jobs with zero operator intervention; configurable concurrency limits and per-controller label scoping for namespace isolation

Code Compliance Platform

Python, FastAPI, Convoy, NATS JetStream, NoSQL, Kubernetes, AWS

  • Built compliance platform scanning 100,000+ repositories — event-driven architecture with Convoy (webhook retries, DLQ) and NATS JetStream for guaranteed delivery
  • FastAPI backend processing 200,000+ compliance checks/week; deployed on EKS with rolling updates and zero manual intervention
  • Integrated AI-assisted code review workflows using Claude Code and custom automation pipelines

Software Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India — Bangalore, India

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

Unified LLM Gateway

Kong, Go, Lua, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, VertexAI, vLLM

  • Architected multi-provider LLM gateway (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, VertexAI) — custom Kong plugins in Lua/Go for intelligent routing, failover, and load balancing
  • Handled 500K+ LLM requests/day with sub-200ms p99 routing latency; leveraged in-house API platform for auth, rate limiting, and quota enforcement enterprise-wide
  • Self-hosted inference layer with vLLM reducing per-token cost by 60% vs cloud providers; reduced team onboarding from 2 weeks to 1 day

Enterprise Secret Scanner

Go, Gitleaks, TruffleHog, Django, NoSQL, Kubernetes

  • Built secret scanning pipeline in Go (Gitleaks + TruffleHog) scanning 100,000+ repositories — identified 15,000+ secrets with 99.9% remediation within 30 days
  • Integrated with custom K8s Job Controller for CRD-based scan scheduling; DefectDojo for enterprise-wide visibility, triage, and SLA tracking

Software Engineering Intern

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India — Bangalore, India

Feb 2023 – Aug 2023

Linux, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Ansible, ELK

  • Provisioned and operated Kubernetes clusters and bare-metal infrastructure serving 72 teams; designed CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 70%
  • Implemented rolling updates, PDB, readiness/liveness probes for production workloads; automated infra provisioning with Ansible

Open Source Contributions

Contributor — github/github-mcp-server

Official Model Context Protocol Server by GitHub (27k+ Stars) — PR #2046 merged

Feb 2026
  • Fixed OAuth authorization server configuration for GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) environments in Go
  • Refactored API host resolver logic and enhanced test coverage across HTTP and OAuth modules

Education

B.Tech — Computer Science Engineering

Dayananda Sagar University — Bangalore, India

2019 – 2023

Awards

  • Excellence Award — Mercedes-Benz R&D, Aug 2025 — for LLM gateway platform delivery
  • Best Team Award — Mercedes-Benz R&D, Feb 2025 — for API platform 99.95% uptime milestone
  • 4x recognized in 9 months (Nov 2024 – Aug 2025)

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