Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems · Bengaluru, India
I build high-scale, event-driven backend systems, with 9 years of experience across APIs, data pipelines and React frontends. I care most about performance, reliability, and making risky production changes safely.
- Currently open to Senior / Staff backend and full-stack roles
- Ask me about Kafka, PostgreSQL performance, event-driven architecture
- Reach me at vivekashwin@gmail.com
- Cut an analytics aggregation pipeline from ~2 hours to 6 seconds (>1,000x faster) with 95%+ data accuracy
- Reduced storage by ~98% (200M+ to ~3M records a year) by deduplicating session data during aggregation
- Led a zero-data-loss migration of Kafka consumers from self-managed Kafka to AWS MSK
- Architected a JSON-driven low-code framework used across 40+ microservices, contributing to $1.8M in annual savings
- Led a team of 7 engineers
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