Ashish Ranjan

Director of Engineering

India9 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Expert in developing REST APIs with Python and Flask.
Led a team of developers using Agile methodologies.
Implemented observability metrics for microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in SaaS and microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

FlaskPostgresqlRest ApisMicroservices

Other Skills

DatadogSentryHashicorp's VaultDrone CILaravelMySQLElasticsearchRedisAWS SQSPusher WebsocketsAWS S3SendgridData StructuresSoftware DevelopmentLinux

About

• Experienced in developing REST APIs with Python, PostgreSQL, and MySQL • Skilled in GNU+Linux administration • Mentored and managed a team of developers using Agile • Worked with Flask, Django, Docker, Git, Redis, Notifications, Queues, Microservices • Server hardening, Code review, Code deployment, Test Driven Development

Experience

9 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Sembark travel software

Principal System Architect

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Sense

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

Shuttl

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed Intercity Trip Management backend using Flask and PostgreSQL
Implemented Automated Trip Creator to schedule trips for next N days
Used Hashicorp’s Vault and Consul to manage secrets
Used Drone CI for deployment pipeline and automated testing
Set up observability metrics of microservices using Datadog APM, and Sentry

FlaskPostgreSQLDatadogSentryHashicorp's VaultDrone CI

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2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Developed Survey Management using REST APIs and Microservices with Laravel & MySQL
Used Elasticsearch to build aggregations on survey responses
Survey module is currently used by ~500 students across 3 US colleges
Implemented in-app notifications using Pusher Websockets
Developed backend to schedule and send reminders using AWS SQS
Built Reporting module to filter and export data of other modules as CSV
Used Redis to cache OLAP requests, boosting response time from 10s to 0.2s
Used Supervisor to manage long running worker processes
Integrated Nylas to sync calendar events to Outlook/Gmail
Supervised a team of 6 developers using Agile
Streamlined code review, commit and merge guidelines
Hardened servers and defined code deployment procedures

REST APIsMicroservicesLaravelMySQLElasticsearchRedis+2

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Developed Interview Management to schedule interviews between Employers and Students
Designed a heuristic algorithm to automate interview slotting
Improved interview slotting execution time from 60s to 5s as a result
Built backend to send email newsletters to student groups using Sendgrid
Created Applications module to store & download student resumes privately using AWS S3

AWS S3Sendgrid