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
Professional Experience
Software Engineer II
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India — Bangalore, India
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
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
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
- 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
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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