Vivek Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom11 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Reduced account takeover incidents by 48%
Secured $300M+ in annual revenue at Meta
Led engineering for large-scale distributed systems

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Security and Infrastructure for Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

SecurityDistributed SystemsBackend Engineering

Other Skills

AIAWSAirflowApache KafkaBig DataBig Data (Spark/Hive)CachingCross-functional CoordinationDocker ProductsElasticsearchGolangJavaJenkinsKubernetesMicroservices

About

Led Software Engineer | Backend & Infrastructure | Security & Identity | AI Platforms | Fintech | 11+ years of experience building and scaling secure, high-performance systems. I specialize in designing and delivering distributed systems, authentication platforms, and risk enforcement pipelines for large-scale products. At Meta, I led engineering for post-login protection systems securing billions of sessions, reducing account takeover incidents by 48% (~40M/year), and protecting $300M+ in revenue annually. My work spans security, infrastructure, and AI platforms — driving initiatives that combine trust, reliability, and scale. I have hands-on depth in backend architecture, ML signal integration, performance optimization, and platform hardening, along with proven leadership in cross-functional delivery. Core Expertise: Backend Engineering • Distributed Systems • Authentication & Security • Platform Infrastructure • ML Signal Integration • SLO/SLI & Reliability • Cloud (AWS) • Golang • Java • Python • • Elasticsearch • Kubernetes • Caching • ReactJS . Microservices . Big Data (Spark/Hive) . Kubernetes. 🚀 Actively open to opportunities in infrastructure, security engineering, and platform/backend leadership — especially at high-growth product companies and large-scale tech organizations.

Experience

Dp world

Software Developer Engineer 2

May 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Contributed to building logistics and port automation platforms, focusing on backend architecture, data ingestion, and performance optimization.

Pax ai

Back End Developer

Mar 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Built and scaled backend infrastructure for intelligent mobility and logistics platforms. Focused on high-availability services, distributed data pipelines, and operational reliability.
Tech stack: Golang, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, Redis, Hadoop, Airflow, Grafana/Prometheus, PostgreSQL.

Algorythma

Software Engineer

Nov 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Founding Member of the core engineering team for Swoo, a live-streaming and social gaming platform with 11M+ users across multiple geographies. Contributed to development, architecture, scaling, and technical problem-solving for real-time interactive experiences.
> Built and scaled live-streaming features including public/private broadcasts, multi-guest shows, and low-latency interactive games (e.g., Trivia, Bingo).
> Migrated critical components from a monolith to microservices, improving reliability and reducing release cycles.
> Led performance tuning across streaming and backend APIs, improving latency and throughput under peak traffic.
> Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and optimize infrastructure cost and stability.
> Worked across backend and platform layers — from API design to data and infra scaling.
🛠️ Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Redis, AWS, FFmpeg, Agora, RDS, Elasticsearch, Firebase, gRPC, C++, Jenkins, ReactJS, Python, Golang, Kong, Redshift.

Quikr

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Oct 2016 · 6 mos

Contributed to the core marketplace backend serving millions of daily users, building reliable APIs and platform components that powered multiple business verticals.
> Designed and developed high-traffic REST APIs used by both frontend and internal systems to support major product flows.
> Implemented scalable search and caching layers using Elasticsearch, Redis, and Memcache, improving API response times and stability during traffic spikes.
> Integrated RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing and better system decoupling.
> Worked closely with product teams to translate business goals into technical solutions, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
> Supported multiple feature rollouts with strong backend ownership and fast iteration.
🛠️ Tech stack: Play Framework, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcache, RabbitMQ, SQL.

Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

Tensilica

Internship

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Worked on developing automation testing flow in Perl for verifying Tensilica's processor.

Creative concept

Intern

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Mumbai

I developed 2 products during my internship period. Article regarding these projects was published in leading newspapers like Times of India, Hindustan Times.
1. Seat Occupancy Reporting System: Designed a patent protected device to send details of buses (like seat occupancy details, speed, location, path) to a server for enhancing the utility of vacant seats for each and every passengers/commuters.
2. Smart Helmet : Designed a patent protected device to ensure that bike will start only after wearing the helmet and will stop in 1 minute on removing the helmet while driving.