Resume Jay Unewal

Product Development Lead, promoted to Engineering Manager

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams building and scaling Project Watershed (codename), a high-performance data platform with robust API orchestration.
• Own end-to-end technical strategy, execution and delivery for platform initiatives, with a focus on reliability, scalability and alignment with product and business goals.
• Architected an integrated platform connecting pet parents and providers, covering scheduling, event workflows and session management, with a focus on uptime, data integrity and performance.
• Technical lead across mobile and backend for appointment session tracking, payment processing and media management in the iOS app.
• Directed microservices and APIs in Python Flask, Java Spring and Node.js with consistent standards, observability and API governance.
• Oversaw data architecture across PostgreSQL and AWS-managed storage, setting data modeling guidelines, retention policies and access patterns for high-volume transactional workloads.
• Drove session documentation, real-time activity streaming, invoice generation and secure Stripe payments.
• Led a Node.js media service for text, image and video uploads with AWS CloudFront CDN caching, improving delivery performance and cost efficiency.
• Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, DynamoDB), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and observability.
• Mentored engineers across backend, mobile and DevOps through code quality, architecture reviews, sprint planning and career development, improving velocity and delivery predictability.

STACKPython Flask · Java Spring · Node.js · Swift/iOS · MySQL · MongoDB · DynamoDB · AWS RDS · CloudFront · Lambda · EC2 · Stripe · Kafka · Redis · CI/CD · API orchestration

Product Development Lead

• Lead a travel-domain services project, running knowledge transfers and onboarding and supporting multiple teams with development and code reviews.
• Built a teleconsulting app for doctors, covering API development and iOS video calling and chat.
• Delivered video calling and chat across Android, iOS and web with the Twilio SDK.
• Enhanced the pet parents' appointment tracking platform with real-time walk tracking using server-sent events.
• Coordinated Python Flask and Java Spring APIs with the Android and web teams while leading iOS development.
• Contributed APIs to an Electronic Health Records (EHR) project.

STACKPython Flask · Java Spring · MongoDB · MySQL · AWS RDS · EC2 · EKS · iOS Swift · Razorpay · Twilio · Redis · Elasticsearch · Docker · Kubernetes · Splunk · ELK · Grafana · Gradle · Jenkins

Product Development Lead

• Elevated to Product Development Lead, driving the team's development initiatives.
• Designed a platform connecting pet parents and providers with scheduling, event management and appointment session tracking.
• Led iOS development for session recording, payment processing and a pet gallery for media sharing.
• Built Python Flask APIs for session recording and Java Spring APIs for payments and the pet gallery.
• Used MySQL for transactional data and MongoDB for other data.
• Delivered session documentation, real-time activity tracking, invoice generation and Stripe integration.
• Built a Node.js media server for text, photo and video posts with CDN caching.

STACKPython Flask · Java Spring · Node.js · MongoDB · MySQL · AWS RDS · CloudFront · Lambda · DynamoDB · EC2 · iOS Swift · Stripe · Kafka · Redis

Product Development Trainee

• Designed and built an automated pharmacy inventory management and GST-compliant billing system.
• Built Java Spring APIs on Tomcat with an AngularJS front end.
• Optimized SQL queries, then moved from MySQL to MongoDB for better data management.
• Deployed the full stack on AWS.