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Senior Software Development Engineer
I'm a backend engineer with 6+ years of experience specializing in building high-performance distributed systems that process millions of transactions daily. Currently designing and optimizing scalable platforms at CRED.
View ProjectsWork Experience
Software Development Engineer III
- Led redesign of mail scraper platform, reducing DB operations by 50% and storage by 75%
- Architected high-performance data processing workflows for financial transactions
- Mentored junior engineers on system design and performance optimization
- Improved system reliability with comprehensive monitoring and alerting
Software Development Engineer II
- Co-designed Forest Framework, reducing downstream traffic by 10X during high-load events
- Delivered Card Management Tab backend for app revamp, increasing user retention by 17%
- Improved email scraping with generic filters, reducing worst-case latency from 15 days to 1 day
- Increased AMEX 2FA webscraping funnel from 38% to 80% for consenting users
- Implemented async writes and replica reads, reducing DB IOPS by 50%
Software Development Engineer
- Replaced monolithic user management with gRPC-based microservices architecture
- Optimized existing APIs, reducing p99 latency by ~4X through query optimizations
- Implemented robust error handling and logging for improved debugging
- Created comprehensive documentation for the new microservices architecture
Technical Skills
Core Concepts
- Distributed Systems
- Database Design
- Message Queues
- Workflow Orchestration
- OOP Design Patterns
Languages
- Java 8
- Python 3
- Golang
- SQL
- TypeScript
Databases
- MySQL 8
- DynamoDB
- Redis
Frameworks
- Spring Boot
- Go Gin
- Django
Infrastructure
- AWS
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Git
Communication
- gRPC
- GraphQL
- REST
Featured Projects
Forest Framework
High-performance traffic control framework designed to handle extreme load during events. Reduced downstream traffic by ~10X, significantly improving system stability.
Mail Scraper Platform
Redesigned email processing platform with optimized DB operations and dynamic scraping capabilities for financial statements.
User Management Microservices
Migrated monolithic architecture to gRPC-based microservices, improving performance and maintainability across the organization.
Contact
I'm currently exploring new opportunities in backend engineering and distributed systems. If you have a challenging problem to solve or just want to connect, feel free to reach out.
kr.ashish8196@gmail.com