Gaurav Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable backend systems.
  • Proficient in AWS and microservices architecture.
  • Strong leadership and mentoring experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in E-commerce and cloud-based solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentMicroservicesAwsSoftware DesignData AnalysisFull-stack DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentLeadershipMentoringTeachingEvent OrganizationProblem Solving

Other Skills

Java 17Spring BootKafkaElasticsearchAWS CloudFormationData StructuresIdentity and Access Management (IAM)DatabasesContent Delivery Network CachingJSONAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitLow-Level DesignWeb DevelopmentSystems Design

About

As a Software Engineer II at UBER, I focus on building scalable, high-performance backend systems. My key competencies include Java 17, Spring Boot, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and scalable microservices architecture. I contribute to the development of secure APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures, ensuring operational excellence and adherence to compliance requirements. I specialize in architecting and deploying microservices using Java and Spring Boot. My technical expertise includes RESTful API design, database integration with JPA/Hibernate, and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines. I am proficient in leveraging containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes to ensure scalable and resilient microservice architectures. An enthusiastic learner, ready to take up new challenges and provide an optimized solution. Skilled In: ⦿ Competitive Programming ⦿ Data structures and Algorithms ⦿ Backend development ⦿ System design Email: iegaurav7@gmail.com NOT from IIT or NIT

Experience

4 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 mo
Current Experience

Uber

SDE - 2

May 2026Present · 1 mo · Bengaluru · On-site

Java 17Spring BootKafkaElasticsearchMicroservicesBackend Development

Amazon

SDE - 1

Jun 2024May 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • ● Designed LLD and developed the Document Uniqueness system to prevent document reuse and abuse in Prime verification flows, identifying and blocking ~8% fraudulent verification attempts.
  • ● Designed and developed Prime Access 3P Income Verification widget for 50% discounted prime and delivered accessibility and UI fixes that resolved 45+ widget issues, across 8+ verification widgets, improving CX and verification flow usability in mobile view.
  • ● Led Region Flex migration (DUB (eu-west-1) → ZAZ (eu-south-2)) and JDK-17/21 migration for 10+ critical services and lambdas.
  • ● Excelled Operational Excellence by resolving 100+ client/customer tickets during on-call rotations and updating runbooks, SOPs, and alarm configurations across services, WebLab and post migration cleanup.
  • ● Designed and deployed a consolidated CloudWatch dashboard with SEV-2/SEV-3 alarm thresholds, improving monitoring visibility and reducing on-call triage time by 75%.
  • ● Managed Content Symphony localization by creating 300+ strings across DE/FR/IT/ES locales and fixing missing translations, ensuring a consistent international user experience.
  • ● Migrated legacy LPT pipeline to CDK, reducing deployment time by 30% and increasing efficiency with Integrated automated integration/regression testing and rollback monitoring, achieving a 99.9% deployment success rate and enhancing reliability.
  • ● Migrated workflows from Fluxo to Tickety (Internal System), improving system efficiency in flagging client tickets by 25%.
AWS CloudFormationData StructuresIdentity and Access Management (IAM)DatabasesProblem SolvingContent Delivery Network Caching+21

Goldman sachs

Analyst (SDE - 1)

Jul 2023Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • ● Created a fresh job in the Hadoop distributed file system to generate below-the-line(BTL) alerts using a complex config-driven manner, calculating top-scoring BTL alerts using selection/sampling of different signal scores.
  • ● Helped improve the spoofing model to catch 25% more below-the-line alerts based on marketability using sensitivity analysis on different mean and standard deviation combinations and A-B testing, thus reducing noise and increasing precision and accuracy of the model by 20% and 15% respectively.
  • ● Included distance from the best bid and ask in model signal calculation, reducing 40% of the False Negative alerts generated.
Python (Programming Language)ScalaGitlabProblem SolvingJavaA/B Testing+17

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2023Jun 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Team: Retail Pricing
  • BACK-END
  • ● Created a Policy Trail and Recovery System portal for audit and rollback of faulty policies reducing dependency on policy tech team and efficiently tracking the history of policy changes along with metadata for previous policy records in self-serve manner.
  • ● Deep-dived into pricing simulation architecture which simulates change of policies across classifiers of retail products.
  • ● 10x improvement in the gremlin query when operating with Neptune DB (graph-based db) to fetch historical policy data
  • ● Created a High-level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) of the Policy Trail & Recovery System, covering IMR, Worst case traffic scenario, TPS, client and server-side Pagination, choice of DB, Latency analysis, and different methods of auditing
  • ● Requirement Closure via collaborating closely with End users & key stakeholders capturing functional and non-functional req
  • ● Created a backend coral API to fetch historical policy values and Wrote Unit test with 100% code
  • coverage
  • FRONT-END
  • ● Designed and deployed, a frontend user interface (UI) architecture for Ops to generate the report in real-time, thus increasing performance, accessibility, and usability and reducing dependency by 100%
  • ● Implemented additional functionalities such as filtering records based on multiple records, sorting the records enhancing data exploration capabilities along with Client side pagination support and integration testing
AWS CloudFormationAmazon EC2Amazon VPCIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Amazon S3Redux.js+32

Goldman sachs

Summer Analyst (SDE Intern)

May 2022Jul 2022 · 2 mos · Bengaluru

  • BACK-END
  • ● Reduced the manual efforts of Ops team by 90% by automating the generation of Quarterly Report using REST APIs
  • ● Reduced the execution time by 96% from 1 hour to 2 minutes using batching of API calls and added Permit Entitlement setup
  • ● Automated Report email generation and Integrated Velocity engine Email template in it, increasing efficiency by 80%
  • ● Connected Backend with the Database using JAVA Database Connectivity (JDBC) API reducing Export to Excel time by 99%
  • FRONT-END
  • Designed and deployed a frontend portal for Ops to build/generate the report by themself thus reducing dependency by 100%
Node.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentGitlabDatabasesJavaShell Scripting+15

Codechef campus chapters

3 roles

President

Jun 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • ● Contributed actively towards uplifting the coding culture in our college, managed to increase participation in the coding contests by 50%
  • ● Mentored over 500 students till date with little to no exposure in tech & coding
LeadershipProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsTeam LeadershipProgrammingMentoring

Teaching Assistant

Nov 2020Jul 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • ● Host of webinar Kickstart To CP, a session for freshers to guide them on the path of Competitive Programming
  • ● Taught Time & space complexity, searching & sorting, array vector, etc. in AlgoRhymes
Team LeadershipProgrammingTeachingMentoring

Membership Executive

Nov 2020Jun 2021 · 7 mos

  • ● Hosted AlgoRhymes, a DSA learning series aimed to lay the foundations of a coding culture at IIIT Bhopal
Team LeadershipProgrammingTeachingMentoring

Codâme, iiit bhopal

2 roles

President

Apr 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • 👨‍💻 CODAME is the coding club of IIIT-B.👨‍💻
  • ● Delegated 6 TechNeev Sessions, in which software developers, alumni, and new selects were invited for tech sessions
  • ● Organized Mr & Miss Coder of the year, a DSA based set of 5 coding contests with 200+ participation
LeadershipProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsTeam LeadershipProgrammingEvent Organization

Executive

Nov 2020Apr 2021 · 5 mos

  • Problem Setter & Organizer of
  • ● ECPE(IIIT-B exclusive educational contest) with 200+ participation
  • ● CodeChronicals 1.0( Collab with BIT-Legion coding club of IIIT-Pune) with 1000+ participation
  • ● Dare2Code(beginner-friendly contest for freshers to give them a kickstart to CP),
Team LeadershipProgrammingEvent OrganizationProblem Solving

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhopal

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Aug 2019May 2023

Allahabad Public School - India

Senior Secondary (CBSE)

Apr 2018Mar 2019

IPEM International School & College

Higher Secondary (ICSE)

Apr 2016Mar 2017

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