Achintya Kumar

Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India3 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led high-impact projects improving user engagement.
Expert in building scalable backend systems.
Strong experience in cloud technologies and microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in the Streaming Services industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaKubernetesGocdDynamodb

Other Skills

Apache AirflowApache KafkaScalaCassandraAmazon ECSDatabasesCore JavaAmazon ElastiCacheApollo GraphQLRedisScyllaDBTerraformGo (Programming Language)Spring BootGraphQL

About

𝗦𝗗𝗘-𝟮 @ 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘆+ 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 | 𝗘𝘅-𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗲: I’m currently working as an SDE-2 at Disney+ Hotstar, where I focus on building high-performance, scalable backend systems that deliver personalized content discovery to millions of users across the platform. I’ve led several high-impact projects, including Watchlist at Scale, Persona Processor migration, and HID/PID migration, directly improving user engagement and system reliability during peak traffic events. Prior to my promotion, I worked as an SDE-1 at Disney+ Hotstar, contributing to features like Continue Watching, fallback pipelines, and engagement-driving content discovery features like Free Badging and “Coming Soon” trays. I began my professional journey as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon, where I worked on the Hotwire Live Data Migration service, helping build zero-downtime data migration service with strong consistency. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: • Languages: Java, Golang (Go), Python, C/C++ • Frameworks & APIs: Spring Boot, Netflix DGS, Express.js, GraphQL • System Design & Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Asynchronous Processing • Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, Lambda, Glue, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, Kinesis, SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Harness, GoCD • Data & Messaging: DynamoDB, ScyllaDB (Cassandra), MongoDB, Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow • Monitoring & Testing: Grafana, JUnit, Postman 📬 Feel free to connect here or reach out at achintyakv10a1@gmail.com

Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Disney+ hotstar

2 roles

SDE 2

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Same team, but bigger responsibilites :)
1. Led the migration of the Persona Processors service, Kafka consumers responsible for updating users’ CW data, from ECS to Kubernetes, achieving a 50% reduction in operational costs. Implemented a graceful shutdown mechanism as well to prevent data loss during pod rotations.
2. Led the HID/PID migration for the Discovery team as part of an organization-wide initiative to remove PII data for 140M users. Authored technical documentation and ensured a seamless migration without impacting user experience.
3. Helped in developing Themed Tray feature for home page, enhancing user experience with different background themes for trays.

Apache AirflowJavaKubernetes

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Part of Discovery team in Personalisation charter.
1. Wrote a custom debugging script for tracking user activity in the Continue Watching flow, improving issue resolution for 40% of watch time-related issues.
2. Led the complete rewrite of core meta tags (4K, Dolby Atmos, etc.) feature, resolving persistent bugs and ensuring consistent feature display across devices.
3. Created GoCD pipelines to maintain editorial and persona-collection tray availability during high-concurrency events, even in service downtimes.

Apache AirflowJavaGoCD