Darshankumar Savaliya
I build AI-powered applications and resilient distributed systems at scale—bridging product vision with operational reliability in regulated environments.
Senior Software Engineer with 3+ years shipping production systems in a regulated insurance and annuities environment. I specialize in AI-powered application development, event-driven distributed architectures, and cloud infrastructure—building platforms that deliver reliability, observability, and fast iteration without waking up on-call.
AI-Powered Applications
LLM integrations, Model Context Protocol tooling, and AI-native backend services
Backend & Distributed Systems
Event-driven pipelines, Kafka, gRPC, and REST microservices at production scale
Cloud Architecture
AWS-based systems (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB) designed for high availability and cost efficiency
Infrastructure as Code
Reusable CDK and Terraform modules from proof-of-concept through production
DevOps & CI/CD
Release automation, blue-green deployments, and full-stack production observability
Regulatory & Compliance Tech
Compliance-ready systems for insurance—DAML, audit trails, policy lifecycle workflows
Professional Journey
- Extended Zahara policy administration platform with cloud-native microservices and event-driven architecture
- Designed and deployed reusable infrastructure modules using AWS CDK and Terraform
- Built CI/CD pipelines supporting DEV, STAGING, DEMO, TRAINING, QA, and PROD environments
- Implemented observability and alerting for production-ready cloud systems
- Built REST APIs and gRPC services for insurance and annuity platform
- Owned policy lifecycle processes end-to-end on the Zahara platform
- Implemented Confluent Kafka-based event streaming for distributed ledger operations
- Contributed to backend microservices and infrastructure automation
- Learned cloud-native patterns and DevOps tooling in a regulated environment