Ravi Shukla — Senior Software Engineer

Backend-focused Senior Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems in production environments. At Tracxn, sole owner of ~15 Elasticsearch clusters (~30 nodes, 6.6TB / 6B+ documents), 3 percolation clusters, and Kafka pipelines processing 20M+ events/day. Core expertise: • Search and indexing infrastructure (Elasticsearch 8.x, ELK, percolation, vector search) • Event-driven pipelines and data systems (Kafka, Kafka Connect, Redis, MongoDB) • Backend and distributed systems (Java, Spring Boot, Python, FastAPI) • Infrastructure optimization, capacity planning, and cost reduction (AWS) Impact highlights: • Led zero-downtime Elasticsearch migration (7.17 → 8.4) across production and percolation clusters under live traffic, reducing infrastructure costs by ~20% • Designed hybrid vector + keyword search system on ES 8.4 — 15% relevance improvement, 20% p50 latency reduction • Scaled Kafka event pipelines processing 20M+ events/day with backpressure handling and consumer lag monitoring • Cut data pipeline latency by 50% via Redis caching layer across 3 high-throughput ingestion paths • Built config-driven MCP tool framework across two transport protocols, exposing 48 structured APIs over Tracxn's financial dataset Open to backend/infrastructure roles. rshuklawork@gmail.com

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 4 yrs