Baibhaw Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in backend engineering and architecture.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.
Significant experience in high-scale systems design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering expert in SaaS and E-commerce industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend EngineeringArchitectureCatalog Supply Chain SystemsEvent Driven PlatformsLow Level DesignImplementationSystem RedesignScalabilityRestBackend Development

Other Skills

DesignTeam BuildingMentoringLeadershipDevelopment AgilityResource PlanningData Flow Re-architectingContent AcquisitionSecurity StandardsAds System UnificationJavaJ2EEMySQLElasticSearchRedis

About

Powering Amazon MX Player customers by Supporting Backend Engineering in Vision, Architecture, Design, Implementation, Team Building, Mentoring and Supporting Leadership to bridge the gap between product and technology

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

3 roles

SDE 3

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

As an SDE3 for Amazon MX Player, I am currently overseeing end to end architecture and operational processes with primary focus on Backend systems mentoring a talented team composed of senior to entry level engineers. My responsibilities include creating the right architecture to support over 500M users with 5M+ DAU across dimensions like Ads, Customer Experience, Payments & Subscription, Orchestration Middleware, User's inherent data management systems, Catalog management systems, Transcoding services and Gen AI initiatives offering low latency, high scalability and highly consistent and secure system balancing the trade off's of customer experience with cost.

Backend EngineeringArchitectureDesignImplementationTeam BuildingMentoring+1

SDE 3

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 6 mos · On-site

As an SDE3 for Amazon Music Catalog, I am responsible for architecting end to end catalog supply chain systems with visions to make them entity & domain agnostic with focus on development agility and increased velocity. I worked on multiple projects including building a Supply Chain oriented Vendor facing full flegded search system as well as Vendor facing self service CMS. I also worked on transforming an on demand data selection and rule execution platform to an event driven platform which requires re-architecting the end to end data flow to bring stability to a critical path component as well as honor the NFRs like Scale, Resilience, DR and latencies of the order of ms. My other responsibilities include mentoring team, supporting leadership in defining the team vision, resource planning and contribute towards goal prioritizations and raise the bar in setting benchmarks across design, code and operational process.
I am well versed in AWS as well as open source technologies across use cases of Databases, Caching, API's, RPC, Notification mechanisms, Event Driven Systems, SOA/MicroService architectures and Design Patterns, Orchestration services, Distributed Schedulers, Data Warehouse, Data Firehosing and so forth

Catalog Supply Chain SystemsDevelopment AgilityEvent Driven PlatformsMentoringLeadershipResource Planning

SDE 2

Jun 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs · On-site

As an SDE2 for Amazon Music Catalog, I was responsible for working on Low Level Design and Implementation across projects which helped scale up Content Acquisition and Ingestion of Vendor Provided Digital Music content by 3x and reduced major risks to 0 from ~2/quarter. I also initiated and owned the Design & Implementation an external facing service to allow seamless content acquisition with unlimited space and connections following the strong security standards of Amazon which had been a bottleneck for over 10 years. Further this system was expanded to be used across Orgs including Amazon Music and Prime Video.

Low Level DesignImplementationContent AcquisitionSecurity Standards

Flipkart

SDE 2

Sep 2017 – May 2018 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked with the M3 team where i was the primary owner of PLA project.
Redesigned the entire PLA project for better customer interface . Increased the scalability and decreased the latency of the system by a factor of 3.
Worked on the unification and platformization of the ads system to support use cases from merchandize to brand ads to pla ads.
Solved major problems that a seller faces while trying to advertise which yielded in increase in overall revenue of the ads system
Worked on the design phase of unified ads ingestion system

System RedesignScalabilityAds System Unification

Quikr

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Worked on multiple Service across multiple projects including the core platform of Quikr. Primarily a backend engineer with experience in REST, Java, J2EE , playframework, Mysql, ElasticSearch , Redis , Memcache. The projects i worked on were core api's , qdp security platform, notification engine, single sign on , dazzlr project, event service project.

Backend EngineeringRESTJavaJ2EEMySQLElasticSearch+2

Ixigo.com

2 roles

Senior Software Developer

Promoted

Nov 2014 – Apr 2015 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

As a senior member of the core backend team, it is my responsibility to design, develop and maintain backend code deployed on tomcat servers on aws. I work primarily with JAVA, J2EE. I develop REST, XML,JSON services. I also consume various provider services in order to integrate various meta providers for products including Flight, Hotel, Bus, Cab. The databases i need to interact with are MySQL and MongoDB. I also own and develop various CMS's. These use JSF, Spring, Hibernate, JS, HTML and REST services. Besides the development, i also need to mentor my juniors.

Backend DevelopmentRESTJavaJ2EEMySQLMongoDB

Software Developer

Nov 2013 – Oct 2014 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

As a member of the core backend team, I have responsibilities of integrating various meta provider on products including Hotel,Bus,Flight. I also have to work on the trip planner part of the website which provides various information to travellers. In order to complete the above tasks, i use and develop Java, J2EE, Rest Services, XML Parser, Jibx Binding, Json services. The databases which requires interaction are MySQL and Mongo DB. I also write javascripts to moderate mongodb data.

Backend DevelopmentJavaJ2EERESTXMLJSON

Kony labs software services

Associate Software Developer

Jul 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on entire SDLC lifecycle of Kony Middleware( Connection, request, response, session, data manager) using Java, HttpClient, VTD, JSON parser.
Worked on multiple app development projects including Hawaiian Airlines Project to facilitate login, upcoming trips, Booking Trips for US, International Flights, including Lua Logic and Backend services using Java, Kony Scrapper, Kony Studio.

JavaHTTP ClientJSON ParserBackend Development