Sunit Poddar

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% at Apna.
  • Improved job search conversion metrics by 15%.
  • Mentored junior engineers, enabling independent feature delivery.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and microservices architecture.

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A/B TestingAPI DevelopmentAlgorithmsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DatabasesDistributed SystemsDjangoElasticsearchFlaskGitGitFlowGo (Programming Language)Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Jenkins

About

Backend Engineer | 8+ years experience building scalable systems serving millions Started as an Android developer, later transitioned to backend; bringing a well-rounded perspective to system design and product thinking. Currently leading and scaling Job Search at Apna. Impact & Achievements - Reduced infra costs by 50% while improving job search conversion metrics by 15% through a complete redesign of search infra at Apna -Led backend efforts on Search and Feed platforms, building location-aware search, external job ingestion, and personalized feeds that scaled to millions of users realtime - Set up engineering best practices around observability, performance monitoring, and data-driven experimentation - Mentored junior engineers and helped one transition from Java to Go, enabling independent feature delivery within a quarter Currently exploring AI; Learning and building on the side.

Experience

9 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Relyance ai

Senior Software Engineer II

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • - Built an automation framework to prefill security assessment data in 10+ assessment formats, cutting client completion time by ~25% and boosting top of funnel conversions

Apna

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Built a hybrid search engine (keyword + vector semantics) with geo-awareness for personalized, location-sensitive job recommendations.
  • Built Community Feed. Built frameworks to facilitate add ons in feed content in realtime
  • Architected and built a Circuit Breaker for Distributed Pods with multiple workers.
  • Primary owner of all migrations related to community

Software Engineer

Oct 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Haptik

Software Engineer

Dec 2019Oct 2020 · 10 mos · Goregaon

  • Built an async mechanism to support asynchronous communication between multiple servers via HTTP calls.
  • Built a utility tool to aid other engineers and analysts run common tasks using a dashboard instead
  • of shell.
  • Integrated client systems with Haptik systems using REST APIs.
  • Assisting and mentoring junior developers to learn and pick up the pace.

Ithaka

Jr. Backend Engineer

Jun 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Designed, architected and implemented an e-com based microservice enabling users(travelers) to checkout and buy activities directly through the stores.
  • Designed, architected and implemented an Automated Payment Allocation System and notifying users using MQTT, Web Sockets and Firebase for community members .
  • Designed and implemented an Analytics microservice which gathers information from different microservices periodically using Celery Beat and generates results which were made accessible by a dashboard.
  • Improved traveler booking workflow by implementing a filtering and queueing system using Redis.
  • Ported legacy codebase from GoLang to Django to integrate with new microservices using DRF with complete revamp of the database schema and built an admin dashboard to facilitate data operations for country launches.
  • Trained the Flask based Machine Learning on more data to support new countries and improved accuracy in plans generated on existing countries using Scikit-learn.
  • Implemented tools to help in country launches which helped the company scale operations from 3 to 7 countries achieving ~4x speed in country launches.
  • Developed scripting tools to transform data from google sheets to multiple microservice databases.
  • Maintain legacy microservices in NodeJS, Django and Flask with daily 10,000 active users
  • Tools of the trade: Python, Flask, Django, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Postgres, MongoDB, Celery, Redis, MQTT, Scikit-learn, Elasticsearch, Firebase, Web Sockets

Mobibook technologies pvt. ltd.

Android Developer

Mar 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Built a chat application using MQTT
  • Built a customer side media e-commerce application which also had the feature of video editing using FFmpeg. The downloaded media content was kept encrypted using AES 256 on mobile device to prevent piracy. Used ExoPlayer to view the video by decrypting the media in runtime in memory.
  • Built a B2C application to show the stats generated using graphs and pie-charts for the revenue and number of items sold, etc details from the e-commerce application.
  • Built a background services application used to monitor all incoming and outgoing requests from the mobile device including SMS, calls, contact updates, calendar updates, browsing history patterns, etc.
  • Maintained a crash free rate of ~97% on all products.
  • Maintained a legacy product application which used to monitor a different device's locality (used for family) and theft security (same as Google find my device feature along with ring my phone)
  • Tools of the trade: Android, FFmpeg, ExoPlayer, MQTT, FCM

Education

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Pune

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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