Rohit Kumar

Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India5 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Developed scalable platforms handling 100M+ documents.
  • Optimized document processing, reducing computation time by 50%.
  • Increased company revenue by ~$1M monthly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS backend engineer with expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Distributed SystemsKafkaNodejs

Other Skills

AWS Step FunctionsDocument ProcessingFraud DetectionGo (Programming Language)KubernetesMySQLGolangDatabasesRedisC (Programming Language)C++HTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)BootstrapImage Processing

About

Passionate software engineer with expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Currently building scalable platforms at Course Hero, previously at ShareChat. Competitive Programmer, 5🌟 at codechef | Codeforces: Expert Technologies: Kafka, Database Connector, Redis, EMQx, Schema Design, Domain Driven Design, Distributed Systems Architecture, AWS Step Functions Databases: MongoDB, Bigquery, CassandraDB, Mysql, PostgreSQL Languages: Nodejs, Scala, JavaScript, Java, Python, Golang, PHP Frameworks: AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, Django, Spring, Spark

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Syfe

Software Engineer 2

Jul 2025 – Present Β· 10 mos Β· Gurugram, Haryana, India Β· Hybrid

Course hero

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2025 – Jun 2025 Β· 2 mos Β· India Β· Remote

  • Optimised the document processing pipeline using AWS Step Functions, orchestrating over 10 services, enhancing post-upload tasks such as HTML generation, question extraction, and fraud detection, resulting in a 50% reduction in computation time.
AWS Step FunctionsDocument ProcessingFraud DetectionAmazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed Systems

Software Engineer 2

Feb 2023 – Mar 2025 Β· 2 yrs 1 mo Β· India Β· Remote

  • Developed a scalable content distribution platform that routes 100M+ documents across Course Hero’s domains based on the integrated ML models and rule-based heuristics to optimise content visibility and engagement and increase company revenue by ~ $1M monthly, and increase traffic on content by ~7 times.
  • Designed and implemented Kafka-based data pipelines in Golang to support Sift Fraud Detection model training, including producers, consumers, dead-letter queues, and batch ingestion mechanisms, helping remove 5M+ fraudulent content.
  • Enhanced the document processing pipeline using AWS Step Functions to improve post-processing of uploaded documents, including HTML generation, question extraction, and fraud detection, leveraging rule-based heuristics and ML model scores for document quality assessment.
  • Designed and implemented a highly scalable & extensible rewards platform, capable of adapting to diverse business requirements for granting user incentives (e.g., coupons, bonuses, and loyalty rewards), ensuring seamless integration with existing Course Hero systems.
  • Designed and implemented a scalable Python inference microservice, integrating with ML models to generate real-time scores for documents and user profiles
KafkaDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)KubernetesMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Sharechat

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2021 – Jan 2023 Β· 1 yr 10 mos

  • As part of the revenue team, managed an ads platform which helped business advertisers to millions of Sharechat users.
  • Developed capabilities of onboarding agencies on the platform where they can manage multiple brands with the help of associates. Also provided granular control over different modules and permission with the support of a central billing system.
  • Improve the Circle platform's content quality by reducing content deletion from 15% to 8% at verification.
  • Increase the Retention of Creator on Circle platform. Week1 retention has gone up by 33% for old creators.
  • Increased User-Generated Content on the Circle platform.
  • I have delivered many features across multiple services like feed, creation, profiles, notification, event-service, CMS and verification tools in the Circle platform.
  • Improved Redis network output by 60% and commands per sec by 40% by implementing local cache.
  • Technologies - MongoDB, Bigquery, Nodejs, Redis, EMQx
NodejsDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)MySQLDatabases

Reliance jio

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 Β· 7 mos

  • Working with Batch processing system to build configurational scala services and data-pipes lines capable of ETL process to find better insights from data. Improved batch processing time by distributing data across different nodes in the cluster. Improved query performance by reducing ORC files. Other
  • responsibilities included creating reprocessing scripts to avoid data duplicity in case of failure.
  • Technologies - Scala, Spark, Apache NiFi, Hive

Vassar labs

Software Engineer Intern

May 2019 – Oct 2019 Β· 5 mos Β· Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Working as a Full-Stack Developer in the Integrated Water Management Project in which I am responsible for creating Play services for UI. Other responsibilities included incorporating the Highchart library in the form of a custom directive.
  • Technologies - AngularJS, JavaScript, Play Framework, HighStock, Java

Adverto

Intern

Oct 2018 – Nov 2018 Β· 1 mo Β· Greater Jabalpur Area

  • Adverto is a start-up which provide online service for deploying advertisement over digital billboards and I have been a part of team trying to make the entire process self-regulatory . My responsibility included:
  • Shifting their backend from PHP to Django and integrated backend with new services like vender dashboard, advertisement slot reservations.
  • Designed and developed Rest API for raspberry-pi board

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

Bachelor of Technology β€” Computer Science

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1, Alwar, Rajasthan

Senior Secondary School

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

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