Andesh Iqbal Chogle

Senior Software Architect Experience: 17 Years 11 Months

LinkedIn | +91-9850084017 | [email protected] | Pune, India

Senior Software Architect with 18 years architecting and modernizing enterprise-scale web platforms end-to-end. For over a decade I have shaped Icertis Contract Intelligence - a multi-tenant contract lifecycle management platform serving global enterprises - leading its hardest re-architectures from design to production: a near zero-downtime Elasticsearch migration (v2.4 to v8.12), a full Kendo UI/jQuery-to-React frontend overhaul, and platform-wide observability with Datadog APM. I bring deep command of C#/.NET, React/TypeScript, Azure, and Elasticsearch, extended into applied GenAI - multi-phase AI orchestration, multi-agent systems, and production LLM integrations - and have shipped AI products solo from concept to launch. I work across architecture, code review, and mentorship, and remain a hands-on contributor.

C# .NET ASP.NET Web API React.js TypeScript Javascript Microsoft Azure Elastic Search Redis Datadog SQL Server Postgresql Rest API Design Multitenant Architecture Software Architecture Design System Design OpenAI Large Language Model Multi-Agent AI Orchestration Prompt Engineering Zero-Downtime Migration Performance Optimization Technical Leadership Mentoring Azure Service Bus Azure SQL Database Azure Storage Azure VMs Azure Kubernetes Service Managed Identity Azure Apim Azure WAF Claude Code Openai Codex Github Copilot Crewai Vercel AI SDK

Work Experience

Senior Software Architect - Icertis Solutions Pvt Ltd

Aug 2013 - Present

Senior Architect on Icertis Contract Intelligence, a multi-tenant, enterprise-class contract lifecycle management platform serving global customers. Own end-to-end design and delivery of core platform capabilities - from system architecture and feature development to performance, observability, and the engineering standards the team builds against.

Lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of platform modules across the .NET/React stack, balancing new feature work against long-term maintainability and multi-tenant scale.
Drove a near-zero-downtime migration of the search infrastructure from Elasticsearch 2.4 to 8.12 - rewriting index mappings, analyzers, and query DSL, and optimizing full-text search across contract metadata, clause text, and obligation data for enterprise tenants.
Spearheaded the frontend modernization from a Kendo UI/jQuery architecture to a React component-based architecture, establishing the shared component library, state-management strategy, and coding standards that now underpin the platform UI.
Architected platform-wide observability with Datadog - implementing APM tracing, custom metrics, and structured logging, dashboards, and alerting that drive proactive incident response with the SRE team.
Designed a predictive, persona-based page-prefetch system using service workers, preloading likely next pages by user role to measurably improve perceived load times.
Created ICI SDK, a customization framework to enable implementation teams write upgrade safe customizations.
Created Background Tasks Framework for background tasks using Azure Service Bus and Hangfire as backbone.
Re-architected a monolithic application decomposition into discrete microservices - Document Processing, OCR, and Contract Assembly - communicating over a Redis Pub/Sub backplane to enable independent scaling and deployment.
Architected and operated platform components across a broad Azure services footprint - Service Bus and Functions for async/event-driven workloads, Azure SQL and Storage for data, AKS for container orchestration, and API Management, WAF, and Managed Identity for secure, governed API access.
Mentoring: Mentored developers and junior engineers on architecture and frontend practices through code reviews and design discussions.
Hiring: Ran technical interviews and evaluated candidates for engineering roles.

Module Lead - Persistent Systems Limited

Jul 2008 - Aug 2013

Module Lead across two C/C++ and .NET products spanning consumer finance and document security - owning feature development, deep systems-level debugging, and the migration of legacy code to modern 64-bit architecture.

Developed new features across four annual releases of Quicken, a personal finance application serving millions of users in the US and Canada, covering transaction download, reporting, bill-pay reminders, check printing, and debt reduction and financial planners.
Performed postmortem debugging and crash-dump analysis on production defects using WinDbg and Visual Studio, resolving complex memory and stability issues in a large native Win32/C++ codebase.
Enhanced the core of Zafesoft, a document-security product protecting MS Office and PDF files via a file-system minifilter driver, Windows API hooking (Microsoft Detours), and Office add-ins.
Migrated the Zafesoft 32-bit codebase to 64-bit, navigating the driver, API-injection, and compatibility challenges that came with the transition.
Integrated VSTO-based MS Office add-ins (Office 2003/2007/2010) with the underlying security and injection modules.

Projects

The Storybook Studio

12 Months

An AI-powered children's storybook creation platform that guides users through a structured studio flow to shape, illustrate, and export a full 10-chapter storybook. Conceived, designed, and built end-to-end as a solo Creator & Engineer. Link: www.thestorybookstudioapp.com

Architected a multi-phase AI generation pipeline: Idea Refinement, World Building, Character Creation, and Chapter Drafting - using OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible APIs to keep each creative step intentional and structured.
Integrated Nano Banana Pro and GPT-Image-2 for character and chapter illustration generation with consistent visual style across the book.
Built a guided 9-step studio UX with step-locking, a navigator, and progressive content creation, supporting configurable age groups and story styles.
Integrated the Dodo payment gateway with geo-adaptive pricing (INR for Indian users, USD international), powered by MaxMind GeoIP for location detection.

StructureMyLearning

8 Months

An AI-powered educational platform that turns any topic into a structured, personalized learning guide. Link: www.structuremylearning.com

Architected a multi-axis lesson generation pipeline (learner level × topic coverage × content type) on the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, using a two-call generate-and-review flow to produce high-quality, pedagogically structured lessons with guided illustration images.
Designed production-ready infrastructure on Railway with resilience in mind: high-availability Postgres, backup strategy, and IP-geolocation-based payment system.
Defined the full go-to-market: a freemium + subscription model, web-first distribution.
Established the product identity under the StructureMyLearning brand, including naming, positioning, and visual direction focused on structured education and guided learning.
Designed brand assets and logo direction with a clean education-focused identity, using simple visual semantics and solid branding.

Education

B.E. | Computer Engineering — 2008 Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune