Pankaj Chaudhari
Redlands,CA
Summary
Principal Product Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and extending enterprise-scale GIS platforms, specializing in low-level ArcObjects development, ArcGIS Enterprise extensibility, and cloud-native system architecture. Proven leader in building secure, scalable, and highly customizable GIS solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Product Engineer
ESRI
04.2019 - Current
- Perform duties requiring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of computer science and software engineering, including enterprise-scale system architecture, distributed services, and extensible platform design, consistent with a specialty occupation.
- Independently analyze, design, and implement complex software subsystems that extend and customize server-based enterprise platforms, exercising discretion and judgment in architectural design, interface contracts, and system behavior.
- Design and implement middleware-level request and response processing frameworks, requiring specialized expertise in protocol handling, performance optimization, security considerations, and extensibility mechanisms.
- Architect and develop custom data integration frameworks to enable ingestion, transformation, and management of external and non-native data sources within enterprise systems, applying advanced data modeling and scalability principles.
- Serve as a technical authority responsible for evaluating design alternatives, defining use cases, establishing testing strategies, and determining deployment approaches for mission-critical software components.
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure automation and deployment templates, requiring specialized knowledge of cloud computing platforms, infrastructure-as-code methodologies, and enterprise deployment standards.
- Define and execute comprehensive system validation and performance testing workflows and produce formal technical documentation and demonstrations to communicate complex system behavior to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Drove continuous improvement culture in engineering to provide clear product design standards, improve manufacturability through enhanced documentation and reduce engineering cycle time.
Technical Specialist
ESRI India
07.2006 - 02.2019
- Designed and implemented enterprise-scale GIS systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), delivering modular, scalable, and interoperable spatial services across large organizations.
- Led cloud migration and implementation of Enterprise GIS platforms, improving system scalability, availability, and operational efficiency across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Extended and customized GIS services using Server Object Extensions (SOEs) with fine-grained authorization and access control and implemented Server Object Interceptors (SOIs) for service access management, monitoring, and health dashboards.
- Designed and developed public-facing RESTful APIs and JavaScript APIs, enabling secure integration of GIS capabilities with external web and application systems.
- Implemented a Lucene-based search engine, domain-specific modules (including public transportation systems), and custom ETL pipelines to support high-performance querying and fast, accurate data migration.
- Conducted system performance testing, tuning, capacity planning, and security compliance, ensuring high availability, reliability, and adherence to enterprise security standards.
Education
Master of Science - Information Systems And Technology
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA05-2025
Post Graduate Masters in Geoinformatics - Geoinformatics (GIS and IT)
Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics
Pune, India06.2006
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Govt College of Engineering
Jalgaon, India05.2003
Skills
- Enterprise GIS Platforms : ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Desktop
- GIS SDKs & Low-Level Extensibility (Specialized Expertise) : ArcObjects (advanced, low-level GIS framework), ArcGIS Enterprise SDK, ArcGIS Maps SDK, Server Object Extensions (SOEs), Server Object Interceptors (SOIs)
- Programming Languages : Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Application Frameworks & Integration : NET, J2EE, Spring, Spring Security, RESTful APIs, SOAP, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Data & Persistence : PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL
- Cloud & Container Platforms : AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Web & Application Servers : Apache Tomcat, IIS, Oracle WebLogic
Certification
- Esri Certified ArcGIS Desktop Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Timeline
Principal Product Engineer
ESRI
04.2019 - Current
Technical Specialist
ESRI India
07.2006 - 02.2019
Master of Science - Information Systems And Technology
Claremont Graduate University
Post Graduate Masters in Geoinformatics - Geoinformatics (GIS and IT)
Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Govt College of Engineering