Mohammad Waris

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in scaling infrastructure.
Expertise in optimizing pipelines and microservices.
Hands-on experience in DevOps and Data Engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with strong capabilities in Data Engineering and DevOps within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache FlinkGo (programming Language)Data EngineeringApache AirflowMicroservicesKubernetesReact.jsFront-end Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon RedshiftAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaAzure DatabricksBack-End Web DevelopmentBootstrapCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CircleCIDaskData StructuresDevOpsDistributed Systems

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Experienced Software Engineer specialized in Backend Development with hands-on DevOps and Data Engineering experience. Proven track record in scaling infrastructure, reducing costs, optimizing pipelines and microservice architecture implementations at fast-growing tech startups.

Experience

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3 roles

Staff Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Rearchitected real-time Flink Pipeline for ML models saving 40% costs and enhancing performance.
Migrated Antifraud backend service from Flask to FastApi and Golang improving concurrency and decreasing response time.
Implemented proactive monitoring with PagerDuty, cutting incident response time by 50% and ensuring high system availability.
Optimized Docker images and CircleCI workflows, boosting deployment speed by 30% and enabling faster feature rollouts.
Deployed containers to Amazon ECS, achieving scalable and containerized data services.

Go (Programming Language)JavaApache FlinkPython (Programming Language)DockerAmazon Web Services (AWS)+4

Data Engineer

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Spearheaded data pipeline environment upgrade, reducing processing time by 60%, improving data accessibility.
Designed high-performance data pipelines using Airflow, Redshift, Dask, and Databricks, handling millions of daily events.
Migrated hardcoded circuit breaker rules to PostgreSQL and developed a user-friendly Frontend & Backend interface empowering non-technical users to view and modify rules effortlessly.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache AirflowDaskAzure DatabricksAmazon RedshiftData Engineering+1

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2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Experienced startup growth phase firsthand, joining early and scaling from thousands to millions
of users. Transformed infrastructure from manual VM deployments to CI/CD on Kubernetes with autoscaling. Handled millions & billions of rows in Databases.
Single-handedly built, deployed, and scaled a highly performant real-time chat infrastructure handling millions of messages with 35ms p95 latency, 1500 req/s, and 100,000+ concurrent WebSocket connections using NLB, NodeJs, SocketIo, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes & PubSub.
Implemented MongoDB sharding, horizontally scaling read and write operations, improving performance by 70% and accommodating a 500% increase in data volume.
Led migration from EC2 VMs to EKS (Kubernetes) & event-based autoscaling and workload separation on Kubernetes, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and seamless scaling of services.
Reduced MongoDB and Kubernetes costs by 25% through effective optimization strategies and resource management techniques.
Architected a centralized Notification Microservice, increasing notification delivery efficiency across the organization.
Implemented the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), leading to a 40% reduction in bug resolution time and improvement in system monitoring capabilities.
Developed a billing dashboard that allowed for a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs through data- driven cost optimization decisions.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)RedisMySQLDistributed SystemsGoogle BigQuery+13

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2018 – May 2019 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Developed a test portal web application and internal dashboard using ReactJS and Redux, adhering to industry best practices and coding standards.
Implemented responsive and user-friendly UI components to enhance the user experience.
Collaborated with the backend team to design and consume RESTful APIs for data retrieval and manipulation.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and ensure the dashboard met the needs of various teams.

HTML5React.jsBootstrapRedux.jsFront-End DevelopmentJavaScript+1