Sangam Kumar

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led backend architecture for a $2B revenue pricing engine.
Improved rollout reliability to 97% for 1B+ member traffic.
Expert in building scalable systems and backend development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentMonetization

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkCC++CSSCloud ComputingData StructuresDeployment InfrastructureEngineering LeadershipGoogle Cloud PlatformHBaseHadoopJavaJavaScript

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry and a broad range of technical skills and expertise in building scalable systems and backend development.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

LinkedIn Business Platform: Designed and led the backend architecture for a rule-based pricing engine powering multi-line quoting/ordering and influencing $2B+ revenue, delivering $81M+ impact via scalable, auditable pricing infrastructure.
Release Validation Platform: Led backend development of LinkedIn’s rule-based Release Validation Platform, enabling dynamic canary and experimentation validations across 14K+ services and improving rollout reliability to 97% for 1B+ member traffic.
Focus areas: • Product/Platform Backend • Deployment Infrastructure • Rule-Based Systems • Business Logic Automation • Scalable APIs • Distributed Systems • Temporal Workflows • Canary Validation • Data Validation • Observability • Signal Accuracy • Revenue Infrastructure • Monetization & Growth • Finance Engineering • Subscription Lifecycle

Distributed SystemsEngineering LeadershipDeployment InfrastructureMonetizationBackend Development

Houzz

Software Engineer - Backend

Feb 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto

Member of Pro Revenue Team that manages Sales and Self Serve Tool for Houzz Pro Subscriptions. Worked on various projects such as Self Serve, Entitlement Service, Free Trial, etc

Distributed SystemsMonetizationBackend Development

Engineering Intern

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Member of Automated Sourcing Team in LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Distributed Systems

Paytm

Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Member of PayTM Travel Team - Contributed in various projects in Trains, Bus & Flight Ticket Bookings vertical.

Distributed Systems

Zilingo

Software Developer

Aug 2016 – Jan 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Member of User side Web Team - Worked on the backend of an internal tool that helps create dynamic pages on the website using child layouts such as Banners, Video, Composite Layouts, n-Column Grids that can be directly selected through an admin interface by designers to design the home page according to business needs or offers.

Distributed Systems

Metricstream

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Created tool for a GRC application that validates data that carries changes in organisational hierarchy through excel files uploaded by the users and updates the changes in Oracle Database accordingly.
Designed and developed backend for a hierarchy of organisations, departments, risks.
Involved with MetricStream GRC platform team to develop new generic components in platform libraries that were being demanded by multiple clients in their GRC Apps.

Distributed Systems