Abstract: The present invention provides for a system and a method for translating a legacy source code to a cloud native code. The present invention provides for receiving a source code and deriving a plurality of queries from the source code and the queries comprise a plurality of tokens. The present invention provides for constructing an abstract syntax tree in the form of a data structure from the tokens. The present invention provides for traversing the abstract syntax tree, the identified pattern, the scope table and the syntax table for translation of the tokens of the abstract syntax tree into new tokens stored in the form of a cloud native abstract syntax tree. The present invention provides for concatenating the new tokens stored in the cloud native abstract syntax tree to generate a translated cloud native code to be hosted on a cloud platform.