Santosh Kumar Pandey — CEO
Principal / Staff Backend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems across cybersecurity, BFSI, healthcare, and SaaS domains. Currently working on a Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) platform at Thales (Imperva), designing systems for real-time database activity tracking, threat detection, audit logging, and compliance in enterprise environments. 🔹 Core Expertise • Distributed Systems & System Design (HLD/LLD, scalability, fault tolerance) • Java Backend (Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, concurrency) • Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, async processing, messaging systems) • Cloud-Native Systems (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD) • High Scalability, Performance Optimization, Caching & Throughput tuning • Database Design & Optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) • Production Debugging, RCA, Observability & Reliability Engineering 🔹 Key Impact • Improved system latency by 40%+ in distributed microservices architecture • Achieved ~99% API reliability through large-scale regression stabilization • Standardized API design across 25+ microservices improving scalability & consistency • Solved complex production issues in multi-node distributed environments 🔹 Current Work Highlights • Building and scaling backend systems using MX–Gateway–Agent distributed architecture • Designing real-time event processing pipelines for high-volume database activity logs • Working on centralized SOM-based management across multi-MX distributed environments • Enhancing monitoring accuracy and reducing false-positive alerts in large-scale systems • Driving API standardization and improving cross-service communication reliability 🔹 What I Bring • Strong ownership mindset: design → development → production → scaling • Deep expertise in distributed system debugging, performance tuning, and system design • Experience building security-critical, compliance-driven, high-availability platforms • Ability to work across teams (product, platform, security) to deliver scalable solutions 🔹 Additional Focus Areas • Microservices architecture & service decomposition • High availability, resiliency patterns & failure handling • API platform engineering & contract design • Observability, logging, monitoring & alerting systems 📌 Open to Staff / Senior / Principal Backend roles (Product Companies) 📅 Available to join from May 2026 (Immediate Joiner) Let’s connect if you’re building high-scale backend systems or solving complex distributed system challenges.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Cybersecurity and Cloud-Native solutions.
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Experience: 9 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Java & Spring Boot (microservices)
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
Career Highlights
- Over 11 years of experience in backend engineering.
- Expert in distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Proven track record in performance optimization and API reliability.
Work Experience
Thales
Technical Lead (1 yr 1 mo)
Coforge
Technology Specialist (1 yr 11 mos)
HCL Technologies
Lead Consultant (2 yrs)
Optum
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 9 mos)
HCL Technologies
Software Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)
HCL Training and Staffing Services Pvt. Ltd.
Software Engineer Trainee/Intern (1 yr 1 mo)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology And Sciences (SHUATS)
Intermediate 12th at Shail Shiksha Niketan Inter College Naini Allahabad
High School 10th at Shail Shiksha Niketan Inter College Naini Allahabad