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Ketan Mehta

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable microservices architecture.
  • Led cross-functional teams to enhance engineering productivity.
  • Proven track record in optimizing backend systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in E-commerce and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsEngineering LeadershipJavaTechnical LeadershipSoftware DesignPhp

Other Skills

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheApache KafkaBusiness RequirementsCassandraCode ReviewCommunicationComputer ScienceCore JavaCouchDBCouchbaseData StructuresDatabasesDebugging

About

Industry rich experience in working on highly available and scalable systems using Microservice Architecture. Skilled in Java, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Redis, ElasticSearch, Aerospike, Cassandra, EMQX Broker (MQTT), Micronaut, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Vert.x, and Rx Java

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 3 mos
Current Experience

Twilio

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · India · Remote

  • Building better Identity Platform!

Pocket fm

Staff Engineer

Aug 2024Mar 2025 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Building India's Largest Audio OTT Platform
  • Led cross-functional teams (Pocket Novels, CMS, and UGC) comprising 20+ engineers, driving development and maintenance of scalable backend services.
  • Directed Monolith AWS RDS MySQL separation and migration, with 99.99% uptime with zero customer impact.
  • Architected a robust promo management system (similar to JIRA) to streamline marketing operations, supporting configurable workflows and roles.
  • Mentored and coached 20+ engineers, enhancing team productivity and fostering technical growth.
Systems DesignDistributed SystemsEngineering LeadershipPython (Programming Language)Engineering Management

Flipkart

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Mar 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hybrid

  • Founding member of Shopsy Engineering team.
  • Leading, mentoring the team of 6 engineers
  • Acting as a Scrum Master, managing scrum working closely with stakeholders.
  • Major Projects / Contributions:
  • Shopsy Value Framework
  • Affiliate Service Performance Enhancements
  • Shopsy Budget Tag
  • Moj <> Flipkart Video Commerce
  • Reseller Store
  • MoEngage <> GCP Integration
OptimizationCode ReviewDebuggingJavaTechnical DocumentationObject Oriented Design+9

Senior Development Engineer II

Oct 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hybrid

  • Founding member of 2GUD Engineering team. (2GUD is a marketplace parallel to Flipkart, aim is to cater to No-Frills and Refurb products)
  • Major Projects/Achievements :
  • Built API Aggregator - Enricher library, using event driven Rx.Java technologies.
  • Built Platform Feature - Social Commerce LiveStream - (Simulated)
  • Above feature is still being used actively for exclusive launch like "Nothing Phone" launch and other exclusive launchs on Flipkart.
  • Highly scalable, extensible and latency sensitive system.
  • Allows influencers to connect with followers in real-time using features such as comments, livestream trust markers real-time viewers count.
  • Used MQTT protocol over secured WebSockets to connect with backend routing broker (EMQX)
  • Real-time viewers updation, moderation capabilities enabled using Redis / in-house developed ML models
  • Admin comments, comments manual moderation functionality.
  • Tech Used : EMQX MQTT Broker, Redis, Micronaut, Java, MySQL,..
Code ReviewDebuggingTechnical DocumentationBusiness RequirementsWeb Application DesignSoftware Design

Makemytrip

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • o Part of “Common Platform” team which exposes APIs for the line of business such as Flights, Bus and Rail.
  • o Part of Loyalty Team, MakeMyTrip’s Exclusive Loyalty Program– MMTBlack & MMTDoubleBlack Membership. The program allows enrolled members to cancel flight/hotel bookings with zero penalties also rewards them with the “MyCash” when cumulative booking value reaches a pre-defined milestones.
  • o Part of “Persuasion” team, which helps users to book the flight ticket at the best price based on the historical data available with us.
  • o Owned “MyCash Redemption” application which allows enrolled members to redeem MyCash balance
  • against the third party vouchers such as Uber, Ola, Zomato etc.
  • o Stack & Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Dropwizard, Hibernate, Vert.x, RabbitMQ, Drools, MySQL
Interfaces

Quinstreet

Senior Java Developer

Sep 2017Jul 2018 · 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

  • o Handling the automation of lead tracking, lead conversion, and lead delivery through various media channels such as Email, Agent Portal and Lead Forms.
  • o Developed end-to-end use-case to build and extract the data by allowing business users to build the query on-the-fly and dynamically.
  • o Developed many Quartz Scheduler jobs to automate the tasks for lead data collection, conversion and delivery.
  • o Enhanced use-case of Lead processor by incorporating various caching frameworks such as
  • OpenHFT ChronicleMap. Eliminated "OutOfMemory" issues by incorporating off-heap memory processing.
  • o Tools & Technologies: Java J2EE, Memcached, CouchBase, OpenHFT Libraries, Perforce, Hibernate, Direct Web Remoting, Apache Ant, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, JavaScript

Tata consultancy services

System Engineer

Aug 2015Aug 2017 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

  • o Worked on distributed, multi-threaded environment using Schedulers such as Quartz optimized the Email Notification Engine to the peak level.
  • o Developed end-to-end use case of User to Role mapping, User to User Group mapping, Bulk Import and Export use case enhancement from JXL (JavaExcel) API to Apache POI API transformation. The use case was highly using CPU cycles and with heavy DB calls, Optimized the performance using various standard techniques using a Caching framework such as Google Guava, Collections API.
  • o Undertaken actual production movement and deployment activity so many times, aware of the upgrade steps and scenarios of failure.
  • o Have analysed thread dump and heap dump to find the bottleneck issues and provided to the point solutions.
  • o Developed Scripting Framework which allows user to have the more control on the way field is manipulated. Received Kudos for the feature that I’ve developed. The feature allowed to manipulate any field value/field behaviour of the form, almost in every way possible, just with simple lines of scripts.
  • o Proactively suggested ways of improvement, enhancement in terms of throughput, code-coverage and code-reusability including lazy loading of JS files, use of WebSockets, utilizing caching frameworks with expiry times.
  • o Worked under very less or minimal supervision yet delivered before the deadlines with thorough unit testing of features.
  • o Have an understanding of working with Content Delivery Network to serve static contents.
  • o Tools & Technologies: Java J2EE, Jenkins, Maven, JBoss / Wildfly, Tortoise SVN, Sencha Ext.js Framework, JavaScript, MySQL

Gujarat university

Intern

Jan 2015Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

  • Revamp Gujarat University Website : gujaratuniversity.ac.in
PHPJoomlaSecurityMySQL

Education

Gujarat University

Master’s Degree — Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

Jun 2012Jul 2015

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom — Accounting and Finance

Mar 2009Apr 2012

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