Shrikant Sonparote

Lead Software Engineer

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Roadblock Title:

How to Use Shadow/Replay Testing to Catch Production Bugs Before They Ship

Time:

Wednesday - 2:00 PM (Tower A)

Abstract:

Fintech environments often suffer from a “reliability gap” where staging fails to catch production edge cases, leading to brittle pipelines and on-call fatigue. Drawing on 19 years of experience at Lowe’s and JPMorgan, this roadblock talk deconstructs a three-layer validation ecosystem designed for $90B-scale systems. We move beyond static UAT to architect CI/CD-driven ephemeral layers, shared legacy-compatible staging, and a high-fidelity Pre-Prod Shadow/Replay layer. I will share a blueprint for mirroring real-time production traffic and syncing datasets with security masking to enable 100% automated regression coverage via Playwright. Attendees receive implementation patterns ensured zero-failure rollouts.

Bio:

Shrikant Sonparote is a Strategic Technology Leader, a Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, and a BTA Certified Blockchain Solution Architect with over 19 years of experience delivering high-scale, resilient infrastructure for Fortune 50 and global financial giants. A veteran of the banking and FinTech trenches, he led JPMorgan’s blockchain-based trade matching initiatives and architected the mission-critical cashback framework for Fidelity’s Bloom app, achieving a 90% improvement in scalability. Currently, at Lowe’s, he serves as the lead technical authority for identity security and governance. In this role, he engineered a resilient authentication framework, reducing latency by 40% while maintaining 99% uptime across 1,700 store locations. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is currently dedicated to establishing the security and reliability guardrails for the next generation of Agentic AI microservices and Non-Human Identity (NHI) management.