Ketan Verma

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in building large-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record in technical leadership roles.
Innovative solutions reducing rendering times by up to 95%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and Database Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsJavaTechnical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentAndroid Development

Other Skills

Service OperationsReact.jsGoJavaScriptCouchDBLuceneLeadershipC++CWeb ApplicationsGraphic DesignMachine LearningData AnalysisMySQLHTML5

About

Experienced software engineer who's passionate about building large-scale distributed systems, improving performance, and solving complex problems with simple abstractions.

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Working on Spanner – Google’s scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously-replicated database.

Distributed SystemsService OperationsJava

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Mar 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

Technical LeadershipSoftware Development

Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Working on search and distributed systems.
OpenSearch.org
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
Amazon CloudSearch Service

Opensearch project

Contributor

Apr 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Limetray

Software Engineer

Feb 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

My responsibilities in this organisation:
Full-stack developer + Android app developer + lead the Analytics vertical.
Reduced receipt rendering times by up to 95% by implementing a canvas-based rendering engine; thus making the React based web-app extremely responsive.
Built a cross-platform print server using Go that helped expand the support for the web-based POS system to almost all operating systems, including mobile.
Solved issues around the scaling of CouchDB by designing sophisticated load-testing frameworks to identify the root cause, and then, fixing them.
Built a high-throughput service that helps distributed apps coordinate; allowing multiple pods of a service to work on different jobs without conflicts.
Actively involved in interviewing and hiring resources for the tech-team.
Coordinator of tech-sessions to promote knowledge sharing across all teams.

Full-stack DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentReact.jsGo

Ey

Risk Analyst

Jun 2017 – Nov 2017 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

Beatbook

Co-Founder

Sep 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Beatbook is India's first music learning app to master your favourite musical instrument via a level-wise arrangement of offline HD video lessons.
Built an entire platform where thousands of students learn their favourite musical instrument.
Built an adaptive streaming service using MPEG-DASH, apps for students and mentors with offline support and on-device content encryption, a video chat system with recorded sessions, payment gateway integration, and more.

Zipzapdeals

Software Engineer Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

My responsibilities in this organisation:
Worked on product research, came up with HLD/LLD, and the implementation of the revamped system.
Migrated the (deprecated) managed Parse backed to a self-hosted solution.
Developed the vendor backend as FaaS on top of the self-hosted Parse server.
Developed the customer-facing app (native Android), and the vendor frontend (Vue.js PWA).
Developed the landing website and improved SEO ratings.
Built integrations with payment gateways, hosted search (Algolia), and on-the-fly image manipulation (Cloudinary).
Worked on overall UX/UI as well.