Résumé
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Summary
Backend engineering lead and engineering manager with 8 years of experience building production systems across APIs, notifications, payments, experimentation, recommendations, and event-driven infrastructure. My work focuses on backend architecture, production reliability, maintainability, and team ownership — with Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, serverless and containerized services, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and SNS.
Technical Focus
- Backend & APIs — Node.js, TypeScript, REST, microservices, distributed systems
- Cloud & serverless — AWS Lambda, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ECS, Step Functions, Serverless Framework
- Data — MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
- Reliability — observability (OpenTelemetry), incident response, production debugging, testing
- Leadership — code review, backend standards, mentoring, technical ownership
- AI — LLM/AI-powered product features, AI-assisted development
Experience Highlights
- Lead backend work across core APIs, notifications, payments, experimentation, recommendations, and production platform systems.
- Migrated notifications and activities toward an event-driven serverless architecture processing 1M+ events/day at sub-400ms response times.
- Built server-side experimentation infrastructure for backend-configurable A/B/n testing.
- Worked on payment and giving platform systems using Stripe.
- Developed recommendation retrieval services using AWS Lambda and Redis.
- Expanded the backend to containerized services on AWS ECS with Step Functions orchestration.
- Mentor engineers through code review, backend standards, debugging, and design discussions.
Education
- 2016–2018M.S., Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern California
- 2012–2016B.E., Information TechnologyUniversity of Mumbai