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Name Ayush Goel
Label Senior Software Engineer
Email ag.goelayush@gmail.com
Phone (315) 572-6532
Url https://ayushgoel.com
Summary Senior Software Engineer with expertise in distributed systems, identity platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Proven track record of delivering high-impact features, optimizing costs, and improving system reliability at scale.

Work

  • 2024.08 - Present

    San Diego, CA

    Senior Software Engineer
    Intuit
    Leading critical identity and authentication initiatives for Intuit's platform serving hundreds of millions of users.
    • Owned the end-to-end design and delivery of mobile driver’s license (mDL) as an account recovery authenticator, partnering with backend and native mobile teams to launch across five states (CA, GA, CO, OH, IL) and expanding supported recovery options for high-assurance users.
    • Designed and implemented Redis caching strategy for temporal authentication data after identifying it as a reliability and cost risk; reduced DynamoDB write traffic by ~75% in production (98% in pre-production), mitigated customer impact from AWS system errors, and delivered ~$20K/month in recurring infrastructure savings.
    • Drove cross-platform design decisions across Identity and Fraud, aligning risk-based authentication flows while introducing phishing-resistant factors to strengthen account security.
    • Identified and eliminated scale-related latency bottlenecks, delivering a 40% reduction in overall service latency and materially reducing customer-impacting flow incidents.
    • Led cross-team delivery of Credit Karma sign-in and provisional account initiatives, rapidly ramping into Sign-In Orchestration (SIO) and owning Front Door experience work; unblocked reliability and CI issues that enabled on-time launch and contributed to $100M+ in downstream revenue impact.
    • Set and executed operational reliability strategy for Credential Service as service owner, migrating production traffic to a dedicated AuthN cluster with zero customer impact, strengthening observability, and helping deliver a full tax season with no major outages across AuthN services.
    • Drove architectural and platform-level improvements across Identity by identifying systemic reliability and data-consistency risks, implementing preventative fixes (caching for resiliency), and reducing recurring operational and infrastructure costs.
    • Unblocked cross-team delivery by contributing frontend code changes , leveraging AI-assisted development to prevent dependency bottlenecks and maintain epic timelines.
    • Championed adoption of AI-assisted development workflows, personally demonstrating productivity gains by compressing multi-person sprint efforts into single sprint delivery; influenced broader team experimentation with AI to increase delivery velocity and quality.
    • Served as primary on-call responder for high-severity incidents, leading deep root-cause analysis across service mesh, AWS infrastructure, and cross-region dependencies; prevented repeat incidents through structural fixes rather than point solutions.
  • 2022.07 - 2024.08

    San Diego, CA

    Software Engineer II
    Intuit
    Service owner for Tier-1 Credential Service supporting hundreds of millions of users via DynamoDB-backed REST and GraphQL APIs on AWS EKS.
    • Service owner for a Tier-1 Credential Service (Kotlin, Spring Boot), supporting hundreds of millions of users via DynamoDB-backed OpenAPI REST and GraphQL APIs; deployed on AWS EKS with ArgoCD-managed canary.
    • Led large-scale Identity 2.0 migration, ensuring 100% on-time completion by migrating 620M identities, 2.5B credential records, and 21B user attributes; personally resolved ~10% of complex edge cases via custom scripts, enabling safe shutdown of legacy 1.0 systems.
    • Reduced infrastructure spend by $50K/month by identifying inefficiencies and implementing cost-optimization strategies across Credential Service and eventing pipelines without sacrificing reliability or latency.
    • Improved developer productivity and system reliability by redesigning CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), introducing improved autoscaling, and refactoring service architecture to reduce operational burden and failure modes.
  • 2021.05 - 2021.08

    Remote

    Software Engineering Intern
    Intuit
    Designed and implemented CI/CD patterns for Identity 2.0 services.
    • Leveraged ArgoCD, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, and service mesh to improve deployment safety
    • Analyzed deployment metrics to identify velocity bottlenecks and drove Agile process improvements
  • 2019.05 - 2019.12

    San Diego, CA

    Software Engineering Co-op
    Intuit
    Backend engineer on Identity Platform.
    • Migrated REST services from Spinnaker to Docker/Kubernetes with zero downtime
    • Built tooling to semi-automate migrations for other teams

Education

  • 2021.05 - 2022.05

    Rochester, NY

    M.S.
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    Computer Science
  • 2017.08 - 2021.05

    Rochester, NY

    B.S.
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    Computer Science, Computational Mathematics

Skills

Programming Languages
Kotlin
Java
Python
SQL
Groovy
Backend & Frameworks
Spring Boot
Maven
Resilience4j
OpenAPI
GraphQL
Swagger
Databases & Caching
DynamoDB
Redis
SQL
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS CDK
Terraform
S3
LocalStack
DevOps & CI/CD
ArgoCD
Jenkins
git
Gatling
Monitoring & Analytics
Wavefront
Splunk
Databricks
Tableau
Collaboration Tools
Confluence
Agile