Jagdish Salgotra

Software Engineer

Delhi, Delhi, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in designing high-performance distributed systems.
Proven track record in mentoring engineering teams.
Strong focus on system reliability and maintainability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Telecom solutions.

Contact

jagdishsal@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud-native ArchitectureCloud ApplicationsJavaMicroservicesCloud-native ApplicationsMessagingTelecom InfrastructureTelecom

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)PyTorchSearchRelational DatabasesContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon EKSRabbitMQShort Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP)Cloud ComputingProduct DevelopmentEngineeringTechnology ConsultingStrategySolution ArchitectureAgile Methodologies

About

I’m a Principal Engineer focused on designing distributed systems that behave predictably under load, failure, and uncertainty. My work centers on high-performance architectures, system correctness, and long-term reliability rather than short-term feature velocity. Over the years, I’ve built and evolved large-scale platforms where latency, throughput, cost, and operational clarity are first-class design constraints. This includes data-intensive and search systems, observability-driven architectures, and AI-integrated services where execution boundaries and failure modes must be explicitly managed. I approach applied AI as a systems problem; treating models as probabilistic dependencies that require clear lifecycle control, confidence checks, and measurable impact. While demos are useful, my primary focus is on whether systems remain honest, maintainable, and cost-effective in production. Alongside hands-on engineering, I enjoy mentoring teams, documenting architectural decisions, and helping organizations build systems that are simpler to reason about and safer to operate over time.

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Ndtv

Principal Engineer

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

1. Led the architecture of a large-scale affiliate commerce platform serving 20M+ products, designing for low-latency semantic search (<300ms), predictable throughput, and cost efficiency under variable traffic patterns.
2. Designed and evolved search and data-intensive systems using modern retrieval techniques, caching strategies, and distributed storage, balancing relevance, latency, and operational complexity at scale.
3. Built and operated high-performance backend services supporting user-facing applications, with a strong emphasis on correctness, resilience, and maintainability across the full request lifecycle.
4. Established observability as a first-class design concern, implementing metrics, tracing, and alerting that reduced mean-time-to-detect from ~15 minutes to under 2 minutes and significantly lowered noisy P99 alerts.
5. Authored and reviewed system design documents, led cross-team architecture reviews, and mentored engineers on distributed systems design, performance trade-offs, and production readiness.

JavaPython (Programming Language)PyTorchDistributed SystemsSearchCloud-Native Architecture

Freelance / ibex technologies

Technology Consultant

Oct 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos

1. Advised and delivered backend architectures for SaaS and real-time platforms, focusing on scalability, performance predictability, and operational simplicity across diverse domains.
2. Designed and implemented a Java-based SaaS travel platform handling ~10K daily bookings, with an emphasis on data consistency, caching strategy, and graceful degradation under peak load.
3. Helped scale a real-time sports event platform to support 100K concurrent users, addressing concurrency bottlenecks, event fan-out, and latency-sensitive data flows.
4. Built and integrated an NLP-based customer support assistant, reducing human agent workload by ~60% while ensuring clear fallback paths and production stability.
5. Conducted deep performance and reliability audits on messaging and backend systems, identifying tail-latency issues and improving P99 delivery times by ~150ms.
6. Guided teams through cloud-native deployments and zero-downtime release strategies, enabling safer rollouts and reducing operational risk across dozens of services.

JavaPython (Programming Language)Relational DatabasesCloud ApplicationsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon EKS

Thinksys inc

Technical Architect

Feb 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

1. Led the end-to-end architecture and initial development of an affiliate marketing platform, taking the system from concept to production with a focus on modular design and long-term extensibility.
2. Designed and implemented a horizontally scalable, distributed notification service, addressing reliability, message throughput, and operational concerns in a cloud-based environment.
3. Re-architected a consumer-facing product with ~2 million subscribers into a distributed, microservice design, improving scalability, deployment flexibility, and overall system stability.
4. Drove architectural improvements across products, shaping design standards, integration approaches, and data modeling practices to improve maintainability and performance.
5. Built and evaluated proofs of concept to assess technical feasibility and architectural risk for new product ideas and pre-sales initiatives.

JavaRelational DatabasesMessagingMicroservicesCloud-Native Applications

Lumata digital

Technical Manager

May 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

1. Led development and production rollout of high-volume messaging and notification systems (SMS/USSD), operating in latency- and reliability-sensitive telecom environments.
2. Played a key role in modernizing campaign management and loyalty platforms for large telecom operators in the APAC region, spanning planning, system design, acceptance testing, and network rollout.
3. Provided technical leadership and operational oversight for multiple customer accounts across APAC, Pacific, and Caribbean regions, coordinating delivery, support, and production stability.

JavaMessagingTelecom Infrastructure

Ericsson

Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

1. Designed and implemented reusable integration components for high-volume messaging systems, working with protocol-level interfaces (SMPP, HTTP) and asynchronous message processing pipelines.
2. Contributed to end-to-end delivery guarantees for bulk and transactional messaging, gaining early exposure to reliability, idempotency, and notification semantics in telecom-grade systems.
3. Participated in technology evaluation and stack selection for a prepaid platform, conducting proofs of concept and documenting trade-offs to support architectural decisions.

JavaRabbitMQShort Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP)Telecom