Sarthak Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in backend system design.
Led end-to-end product development for impactful solutions.
Mentored developers and drove best practices in engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Engineer with expertise in microservices and cloud-native applications.

Contact

sarthak@spotdraft.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentDatabase DesignMicroservices ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentQuality AssuranceSearch FunctionalityApi Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Big DataCCSSCeleryData AnalysisDjangoDjango Rest FrameworkDockerElasticsearchFlaskGitGo (Programming Language)Google BigQuery

About

I’m a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and scaling backend systems, distributed services, and cloud-native applications. I specialize in architecting data-driven platforms and integrating AI-powered solutions to solve real-world problems.I’ve led end-to-end product development, building systems from the ground up that improved performance, modernized legacy infrastructures, reduced costs, and unlocked new business opportunities. I thrive at the intersection of system design, cloud engineering, and applied AI, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and clean architecture.Beyond engineering, I mentor developers, drive best practices around code quality and observability, and share technical insights through blogs. I’m passionate about building impactful products, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation through technology.

Experience

6 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Spotdraft

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Fisdom

2 roles

Software Development Engineer 2

Apr 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the design and implemented a module to automate placing mutual fund orders at NSE saving 48+ man hours. Defined MySql database schema, Python object classes and SQLAlchemy ORM to represent complex relationships between users, mutual funds, payments, orders and other data.
Led backend design & implementation for consolidating legacy system handling SIPs & Mandates into a new single microservice. Shifted from a monolithic service running on python 2.7 to a separate microservice running on python 3.7 and migrated data from a NoSQL database to a SQL database in a seamless transition.

MySQLPythonSQLAlchemyMicroservicesNoSQLBackend Development+1

Software Development Engineer 1

Jul 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built the Credit product from scratch and led the Credit team of 5 engineers, integrated DMI and IDFC First Bank as vendors for providing personal loans to customers. Responsible from designing the product till release.
Setup the automation and mock service framework for Credit and wrote test cases having over 90% coverage.
Designed and implemented scrip search feature using elasticsearch for searching different product scrips such as stocks, futures, options, currency and mutual funds.

ElasticsearchPythonDjangoTest Driven DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentBackend Development

Spotlight

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Setup Two Factor Authentication.
Built data pipeline for processing and consuming forward rates.
Built several REST API's and scripts to automate the audit process.
Savings Tracker - Built savings tracker feature for Spotlight's audit automation product RBS using which client's can fetch live rates for spot and forward transactions and calculate the money they are saving on IBR.
Updated the database schema and wrote migration scripts to migrate the client data according to
the new changes.
Setup websocket connection to constantly send out live rates for a given currency pair using
django-channels.
Created API's to calculate client's savings and record transactions.
Onboarding : Made API's to onboard client on Spotlight's payment routing product TBS and payment providers.
Setup the authentication and created several APIs to onboard all clients data.
Integrated payment providers Currencycloud and Western Union to TBS for onboarding clients.
Used Selenium for form automation on CurrencyCloud and python's library pdfkit for pdf
generation and editing.
Tech Stack Used : Python, Django, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Celery, Celery Beat, Selenium, GCP, Google API's.