Tarun Kalwani
Highly accomplished and visionary Principal Engineer with deep experience in architecting, developing, designing, and deploying secure enterprise applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, AWS, and modern AI-assisted engineering workflows.
He has led system migrations, guided secure software delivery, and mentored engineering teams across multiple industries. Beyond engineering delivery, he contributes to the broader technology community through speaking, paper reviews, conference committees, judging, and technical writing.
Academic & Community Profile
- Technical Program Committee: ICoIAS 2025, ICICSET 2025, IEEE SoutheastCon 2026, IEEE Syscon 2026
- Session Chair: IEEE ICAUC 2026
- Judge: Georgia Tech Capstone Design Expo, Kennesaw State University C-Day, NSTA Toshiba ExploraVision 2026
- Speaker: IEEE ICAUC 2026, IEEE IMED 2026 keynote, AWS Meetup Atlanta, KSU career event
Technical Expertise
Languages & Frameworks
Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring, Microservices, REST/SOAP, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Cloud & Platforms
AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, DynamoDB, Oracle, MS SQL, distributed enterprise systems.
DevSecOps Tooling
Jenkins, Maven, Git, SonarQube, Fortify, Black Duck, Tenable, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace.
Architecture leadership across modernization, resilience, and secure delivery
Selected work demonstrating systems design depth, engineering leadership, and platform modernization across Verizon, Delta Airlines, and earlier enterprise programs.
Verizon - Principal Engr, Systems Architecture (2025-Present)
Leading north-star migration architecture for Verizon value brands, enabling shared services and reusable order-processing capabilities across multiple heritage brands.
- Designing migration architecture and sequence diagrams for 7+ value brands.
- Driving reuse of core services across brand-specific customer journeys.
Verizon - Senior Engineer Consultant, Software Development (2022-2025)
Security advocate and technical leader for prepaid, retail devices, bill-pay kiosk modernization, and security-first delivery.
- Migrated prepaid systems from legacy platforms to NSA architecture.
- Led Bill Pay Kiosk modernization to micro-frontend and services-based architecture.
- Ran Fortify and Black Duck scans through Jenkins pipelines and guided remediation.
TCS for Delta Airlines (2019-2022)
Designed and developed enhancements for cargo and flight operations systems, including AWS Lambda and DynamoDB modernization.
- Migrated monolithic workloads toward serverless and cloud-native patterns.
- Improved observability, CI/CD, and release reliability.
Earlier Architecture & Development Leadership
Verizon, AT&T, Ventiv, NIC, and other organizations across telecom and enterprise software delivery.
- Spring to Spring Boot migration.
- Monolith decomposition into microservices.
- Performance tuning, architecture reviews, low-level design, and production support.