Somnath Kayal

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

9+ years in large-scale distributed systems architecture.
Expert in mentoring and team leadership.
Proven track record in automating data processing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in Fintech and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data PipelinesCloud ComputingProject ManagementDistributed SystemsNosql

Other Skills

API OptimizationAWS SNSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApplication ArchitectureArchitectureAutomationBack-End Web DevelopmentCassandraCloud ApplicationsCoaching & MentoringCode Review

About

• 9+ years of experience architecting and developing large-scale distributed systems based on Spring Boot, AWS Cloud, and Kubernetes • Proficient in the full life cycle of software development, including requirement gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment with proven cross-team communication skills to gain efficiency, break down technical challenges into automated solutions and deliver solutions in a fast-paced environment. • Passionate about adding value to my team by mentoring and sharing knowledge with other team members through code reviews, driving technical sessions, encouraging a collaboration culture, and hiring software engineers.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Oracle

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Senior Software Associate

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · On-site

1. Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product managers and stakeholders to define product requirements to develop roadmaps that mitigated risks, and improve data quality through automation.
2. Mentored developers, providing technical guidance and coaching to help them grow in their roles. Ensured the team adhered to best practices for software development, including code reviews, testing, and documentation.
3. Automated data processing for various business flows, which mitigated risks and reduced manual work for users.
4. Implemented a data pipeline to move a subset of data from DB2 to Elasticsearch clusters for faster retrieval with various filters.

Data PipelinesProject ManagementUnit TestingREST APIsMongoDBAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)+41

Senior Analyst

May 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer

Sep 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

1. Built and worked on scalable and distributed systems dealing with large amount of data on a daily basis.
2. Optimised Firstmile part of Supplychain for scale to 10x. Improved system stability by reducing API latency, CPU & memory utilization by rearchitecting the system.
3. Automated critical reporting process using data pipelines for Vertica and ElasticSearch.

Data PipelinesDistributed SystemsAPI OptimizationAutomation

Asiczen technologies

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs · Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India · On-site

1. Designed a highly scalable Smart lock application from scratch.
2. Increased the performance of lock/unlock operations by 30x by using the NoSql database, distributed caching, and asynchronous operations.
3. Improved security by adding OTP-based authentication using AWS SNS for access approval flow, configurable notifications, and device health information.
4. Improved search feature performance to 5x by implementing Elasticsearch data pipeline for guest details and access history.

NoSQLAWS SNSElasticsearchDistributed Systems