GAURAV KUMAR

Backend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built a rewards platform for 10 million user actions daily.
  • Developed high-scale systems handling 50 million requests daily.
  • Contributed to major rewards campaigns like IPL and World Cup.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer in Fintech, specializing in scalable systems and high-concurrency applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring Boot

Other Skills

AWSC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Core JavaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)HTML5Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)Java Enterprise EditionJavaScriptKafkaMySQLRedisSQL

About

I’m a Software Development Engineer passionate about building scalable backend systems and developing solutions that drive business impact. Currently, I work at CRED as a backend engineer, where I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to multiple high-scale systems that process millions of requests daily. I enjoy tackling complex engineering challenges and continuously learning to improve my craft. Some of my key contributions include: • Building a schema-agnostic rewards platform processing rewards for over 10 million user actions daily. • Developing rewards-layer integrations for partner merchants, driving user acquisition and engagement. • Designing and implementing point-of-sale rewards systems for credit card transactions. • Contributing to large-scale rewards campaigns, including IPL 2023, IPL 2024, and World Cup 2023, ensuring seamless execution. • Developing CRED’s BFF platform, which handles 50 million requests daily. • Developing CRED’s User Feedback and Rating platform. With proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and AWS, I am passionate about solving complex problems, driving innovation, and mentoring others. I enjoy working collaboratively to create robust systems that scale and adapt to evolving business needs.

Experience

5 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Cred

4 roles

SDE 3 - Backend Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

JavaSpring BootMySQLRedisKafkaAWS

SDE 2 - Backend Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

SDE 1 - Backend Engineer

Jul 2021Apr 2022 · 9 mos

Backend Intern

Jan 2021Jun 2021 · 5 mos

Crio.do

Student Developer Crio Launch 2020 and Crio Launch+ 2020

Mar 2020Jan 2021 · 10 mos · India

  • As a student developer at Crio, I learned Spring and Spring Boot and built various projects using this world-class technology.

Edc iit delhi(entrepreneurship development cell)

Campus Ambassador

Oct 2018Apr 2019 · 6 mos · Shimla Area, India

  • My Responsibilities included
  • .Work as point of communication between My College and IIT Delhi.
  • .Organize events for IIT Delhi in my college
  • .Aware students about the various live seminar in IIT Delhi

Jio

Intern

Jun 2018Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

  • My work during the internship was to visit the Small and Medium Businesses(SMBs) in my town and understand digital maturity of these SMBs.I had to make a report on what are the digital tools these SMBs are using in their businesses and how can we help them to take their business to a next level using the latest digital tools.
  • My Major Tasks included
  • >Understand Digital Maturity of SMBs
  • >Find what are the hurdels for the SMBs in using digital tools like
  • internet and automation softwares in their businesses.
  • >Suggest them tools and technology which can boost their
  • Productivity.
  • >I was among the top performers all over india and received Letter of
  • appriciation from Reliance JIO for my work .

Education

ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — cse

Jan 2017Jan 2021

Udacity

Java WebDeveloper Nanodegree — Computer Science

Jan 2020Jan 2020

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