Design for change
Clear boundaries, loose coupling and explicit contracts so tomorrow's requirement is a feature, not a rewrite.
Application Development Architect · Pune, India
Designing systems that scale, teams that ship.
I'm Ashish Shende — ex-Microsoft, ex-Quick Heal — a | with 12+ years turning ambiguous business problems into clean, observable, cloud-native architecture.
.NET
AzureJava
AWSReactNode
architect.yaml
Microservices◆.NET Core◆Java◆Node.js◆Azure◆AWS◆Angular◆React◆iOS · Swift◆Android · Kotlin◆CI/CD◆Serverless◆SQL Server◆Go◆Python◆
Microservices◆.NET Core◆Java◆Node.js◆Azure◆AWS◆Angular◆React◆iOS · Swift◆Android · Kotlin◆CI/CD◆Serverless◆SQL Server◆Go◆Python◆
01 / about
Architecture is the art of deciding what not to build.
A T-shaped technologist who has worked every layer of the stack — from reverse-engineering malware at Quick Heal, to healthcare platforms at Microsoft, to leading enterprise architecture at Emergys today.
I translate business goals into technical blueprints: choosing the right stack, defining service boundaries, building in testability and observability from day one, and mentoring teams so the architecture survives contact with reality. I've delivered three products end-to-end from concept to production, led cross-functional teams of 20+, and run onsite discovery with stakeholders in the UAE.
- Ex-Microsoft
- Ex-Quick Heal
- Employee of the Month '20
- Pre-sales & RFPs
- Mentor
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Observable by default
If you can't see it, you can't run it. Logging, metrics and tracing are part of the design, not a post-launch patch.
Pragmatic over perfect
Microservices, serverless or a well-built monolith — the right answer depends on the team, budget and runway.
Teams are architecture
Systems mirror the organisations that build them. Mentoring, reviews and shared standards are design tools too.
02 / stack
Full-stack depth, layer by layer.
Hover a layer to see what I build there.
L4 Experience
L3 Services
L2 Data
L1 Platform
L4 · Experience
Interfaces people actually enjoy
SPAs in Angular and React, native iOS and Android apps, and hybrid apps in React Native and Ionic — designed with performance and UX as first-class requirements.
03 / journey
Twelve years, six commits to main.
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May 2025 — Present
Application Development Architect
Emergys Solutions · Pune
Own application architecture end-to-end: stack selection, solution blueprints, PoCs, architecture reviews and CI/CD standards. Drive cloud-native, microservice and serverless adoption, and support pre-sales with technical proposals for RFPs.
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Jul 2023 — May 2025
Software Development Engineer 2
Microsoft India (R&D) · Pune
Senior .NET engineer on healthcare products — building robust, scalable services with domain experts to improve clinical workflows and patient outcomes, while raising engineering standards across the team.
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Jan 2021 — Jul 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Nuance Communications · Pune
Led end-to-end .NET web development and module integration, modernised legacy components into a maintainable architecture, built CI/CD pipelines and managed release cycles.
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Mar 2019 — Dec 2020
Team Lead
Intech Creative Services · Pune
Architected B2B & B2C e-commerce on microservices with .NET Core and NopCommerce for DP World Dubai. Ran onsite discovery in the UAE, built Angular SPAs and Ionic apps, and led a team of 7.
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Dec 2014 — Mar 2019
Lead Product Developer
Whitesnow Software Consultancy · Pune
HLD/LLD, database and UX design across up to three concurrent products, collaborating with teams in the USA and China. Shipped web apps in .NET, Node and Python plus native iOS and Android apps.
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Jun 2013 — Dec 2014
Associate Engineer, Threat Research
Quick Heal Technologies · Pune
Malware analysis via reverse engineering; designed and built the Automated Malware Classification System (AMCS) in Python, Perl and MySQL, and shipped five detection patches.
04 / work
Selected systems in production.
Simplify i3®
Scalable, secure infrastructure-intelligence platform helping municipalities run full life-cycle asset management.
Dubuy · Manasah · Sokoes
B2B & B2C commerce on a microservice architecture with .NET Core, NopCommerce, Angular SPAs and Ionic apps.
Axonator
No-code field workflow automation platform supporting complex real-world scenarios without sacrificing simplicity.
Axonator for iOS
Native iOS client for field teams — offline-first forms, workflows and sync on top of the Axonator platform.
ProfitBooks Mobile
Companion app for small-business accounting — customers, invoices, expenses and transactions on the go.
AMCS
Automated Malware Classification System — designed, built and deployed for the Threat Research & Response team.
05 / how I help
From whiteboard to production.
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Solution architecture
Blueprints, service boundaries, stack selection and architecture decision records.
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Discovery & estimation
Requirement gathering, wireframes, data models and grounded effort estimates.
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Modernisation
Moving legacy systems toward cloud-native, microservice or serverless designs — safely.
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Reviews & mentoring
Architecture and code reviews, design-pattern training, seminars and workshops.
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Pre-sales & RFPs
Technical proposals and documentation that win work and hold up in delivery.
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Web & mobile delivery
Hands-on build of SPAs, APIs and native or hybrid mobile apps when it counts.
06 / writing
Technology Leadership Series.
Notes on growing from engineer to architect, shared on LinkedIn.