Jitender Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led a 22-member backend team to high performance.
Achieved 45% AWS cost savings through optimizations.
Designed systems handling millions of orders daily.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering leader in E-Commerce and Logistics sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend EngineeringTeam Management

Other Skills

API Design (REST/gRPC)AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache StormCassandraChaos EngineeringContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaDelivery Engine DesignDistributed SystemsElasticsearchEngineering Manager

About

Experienced engineering leader with a passion for transforming businesses through innovative technology solutions. I specialize in managing large-scale e-commerce, supply chain platforms, logistics, hyperlocal, and last-mile delivery. My track record includes developing end-to-end technology products and platforms that deliver exceptional customer experiences while aligning with business objectives. In time-sensitive and ambiguous environments, I have consistently delivered high-quality products by leading and motivating high-performing teams. Creating a culture of excellence has been integral to achieving world-class performance within the organizations I've worked with. Let's connect and explore how my expertise can drive success for your company.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Ola

Senior Prinicipal Engineer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Owned A/B experimentation backend (Golang) & policy APIs; added idempotency keys, tracing, and rate-limit hooks for safe rollouts.
Delivered IAM, Security Groups, KMS backends (Java/Spring) with API-first contracts, RBAC/ABAC, OAuth2/OIDC, tenant isolation.
Built distributed, pluggable rate limiter (Golang + Redis Lua + Kafka) at 20M+ QPS/800+ services; tenant quotas & burst control cut noisy-neighbor incidents ~95%.
Reduced feed API p95 ~30% via Redis caching, batching, and query tuning; contributed to +7–10% CTR/engagement.
Ran SLO/SLA governance, error budgets, canary & circuit breakers; p95/p99 ↓, 5xx ↓, availability → 99.95%; MTTR ↓ ~40%.
45% AWS cost savings (Graviton, right-sizing, tiering); reduced cost/request via cache hit-rate & throughput optimizations.
Managed & grew 22-member backend/platform team; owned hiring loops, calibrations & promotions; mentored 5+ to Sr/Tech-Lead.

GolangJavaSpringRedisKafkaAWS+2

Fox corporation

LEAD SDE

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Gojek

Senior Software Development Engineer

Sep 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Designed Multi-Pickup/Multi-Drop Delivery Engine and upgraded Kafka infra to handle 4M+ daily messages.
Improved driver allocation algorithms and latency, cutting delivery delays by 30%.
Collaborated across teams in Indonesia, Singapore, and India to unify architecture and performance monitoring.

KafkaDelivery Engine DesignBackend Engineering

Swiggy

Lead Software Development Engineer

Oct 2017 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Owned design and development of Order Management and Fulfilment Services handling millions of orders/day.
Optimized inventory, assignment, and delivery routing systems, improving order success rate by 18% and reducing cost per order by 22%.
Led migration from monolith to microservices architecture on AWS, ensuring zero downtime rollout.
Mentored engineers across teams, built dashboards for SLA tracking, and introduced structured post-mortems and RCA frameworks.

AWSMicroservicesOrder ManagementBackend Engineering