Deepak Ahuja

Backend Engineer

Delhi, Delhi, India9 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable backend systems.
Proven track record in mentoring junior developers.
Strong experience in microservices architecture.

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

Contact

deepak.ahuja@acko.tech LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesBackendSoftware DevelopmentFrontend Development

Other Skills

AIAWSAmazon SQSAngularJSApache KafkaApolloAutomationBuilding Platform for ACKO businessesCassandraCross-functional Team LeadershipDockerDocument insights moduleDomain Driven DesignElasticSearchFraud detection

About

I have around 9 years of experience working in software development. Currently, I work as the SDE 3 backend at Acko, ex - JungleeGames, where I building software backends that can handle large scale load, I also mentor juniors, I'm deeply passionate about code modularity, scalability and reusability as the problems solved caters for ambiguous, rapidly changing environment and ensuring scalable for millions of users playing concurrently. Previously, I worked at product startups as Full stack engineer. I have seen a few zero to one journeys. If you catch me outside of work, I'm an adventurous traveler - ceritifed scuba diver - and do solo trips in various parts of country! Competencies: Go | Java | Microservices | Backend | Research and Optimizations | ScyllaDB | SQL/NoSQL | React | Nodejs | Docker | Kubernetes | Polygot | Kafka | Software Architecture | System Design P.S. If you're passionate about creating tech-focused products reach out to me at er.d.ahuja@gmail.com.

Experience

9 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Acko

2 roles

SDE 3 (Acko Enterprise)

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

SDE 3 (Product Platform)

Oct 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

Building Platform for ACKO businesses
Scaled Payment systems and other financial services
Built fraud detection and document insights module leveraging AI and ML

Building Platform for ACKO businessesScaled Payment systemsFraud detectionDocument insights moduleAIML+2

Junglee games

2 roles

SDE 3

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and launched game server and its microservices from scratch for new game to handle tournaments at scale (load tested for 5K to 8K rpm with toleration < 133ms)
Worked closely with Product/CX teams and technical architect to Identify issues, analyzed existing flow and did a complete overhaul of the KYC system to automate workload of more > 87% and CX TAT 47m to 1.4m. Automated reporting, UX, fraud detection
Re-architecture of KYC System by making 4 services (REST and subscribers) in Go. It used mongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS services like SQS, S3, lambda to create a distributed system on K8s
On the platform was the Re-architecture of AUTH System to improve security and support new feature building. (Socket to API - Go, PostGRES, Redis, JWT, hashing, Social logins like fb, google, truecaller)
Mentoring 4 junior developers & contributing to documentation using C4 model

Game server designMicroservicesKYC system overhaulAutomationGoMongoDB+6

SDE 2

May 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and implemented a microservices platform on K8s with Consul, API Gateway & services on Domain Driven Design. This enabled efficient development and deployment of modular and independent services from the ground up.
Successfully re-architected the Auth/RAF/Communication/Leaderboard systems to 10X loads, using data-centric storages such as ScyllaDB, PostGRES, and Redis. This improved system performance and scalability keeping APDEX 0.859+ & toleration < 500ms.
Introduced event queueing systems, including Kafka and SQS, to separate business analytics and application system processes. This implementation ensured scalable operations, decoupling, while maintaining data integrity & fault-tolerant systems.
Collaborated on the development of admin and mobile app frontend (using H5 and React) for flagship JungleeRummy. Contributions included automating outbound calling, managing leaderboards, and integrating payment gateways, among other functionalities.

Microservices platformKubernetesDomain Driven DesignScyllaDBPostGRESRedis+4

Paragyte technologies

Senior Product Engineer

Jul 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked on a low code platform that enables launching backend on K8s quickly using Model definition and workflows.
Open source work in node's loopback framework and its ecosystem, fixed numerous bugs of framework and it's dependencies
It launches those on K8s as well as allow service management using admin in React. Worked on various K8s objects, ACL, domains, BPMN workflow integrations etc.
Wrote code generator in NodeJS which generates REST and GraphQL APIs as per model definition.
Created and Refactored several UI and backend components written in javascript using finite state machines

Low code platformKubernetesNodeJSREST APIsGraphQLJavaScript+2

Pesto tech

Javascript Developer

Jan 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

The Sports Auto Better Project on tech stack including Serverless, Node (Keystone js), Chromium browserless
Created several state driven REACT components (backed by GRAPHQL, apollo) in a dashboard from wireframes
Wrote Web Scrapers using serverless functions to automate human interaction with 38+ different skins of websites
Interacted with 4 different cloud distributed apps with SQL/NoSQL

ServerlessNodeReactGraphQLWeb ScrapersFrontend Development+1