Suraj Kumar

Backend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in backend engineering.
Expert in building scalable APIs and microservices.
Proficient in Go, Python, and AWS technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Fintech and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)Amazon Web Services (aws)MicroservicesAwsPython (programming Language)

Other Skills

AWS SESAWS SNSAlgorithmsAmazon EC2C++Data StructuresDatabase Management System (DBMS)DocumentationElasticsearchFlaskGitGolangJavaJavaScriptKafka

About

Senior Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and real-time platforms at Angel One, Drip Capital, and Infinx. Skilled in Go, Python, and AWS, I specialize in designing resilient architectures that handle high traffic and complex data flows.

Experience

5 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Angel one

Back End Developer

Jan 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

RedisAmazon Web Services (AWS)Go (Programming Language)Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)ElasticsearchAmazon EC2+5

Drip capital

Software Development Engineer-2

Mar 2022 – Nov 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and developed User Store microservice from scratch, a core service responsible for user and business profile management
Used AWS SES and SNS to build a notification microservice from scratch to send messages to different channels. Added RabbitMQ to the service to handle large numbers of incoming requests with lesser resource consumption
Implemented a lightweight portal with limited feature set for unauthenticated users for shipment tracking
Integrated New Relic across all services for monitoring critical API metrics of latency and error rates
Worked on Shipment Sharing feature, optimized the usage of search for shipment tracking to reduce the number of network calls
Implemented a generic API rate limiter using redis to prevent DDoS attacks
Setup CI/CD pipeline with unit tests for the services, and ensured >80% code coverage

RedisMySQLGo (Programming Language)RabbitMQGolangQuality Control+2

Infinx

Product Engineer

Jun 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built an audit service to validate ML predictions, replicated the original prior authorization(PA product) flow and sent the processed data to operations service via queue-based delivery
Responsible for designing and implementing various jobs for monitoring health of key services across the system.
Made changes in the existing workflow, status for each request was collected and stored in a flat form, migrated the past data and changed the current flow to follow hierarchical order
Designed and developed an UI application for revenue analytics utilizing Amazon QuickSight’s serverless architecture for dashboard embedding

Amazon Web Services (AWS)GitMySQLSQLPython (Programming Language)Flask+4

Oyo

Data Science Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Thomso, iit roorkee

Thomso Organizing Committee

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Roorkee

Appointed as the Member of Thomso Organizing Committee of Thomso18 by Dean of Students' Welfare. Successfully organised Thomso zonals in 7 states for promotion of the fest.
As head of the promotions team ensured maximum participation with foreign footfall of more than 6500. Lead the previous year's fest as Venue Coordinator and orchestrated three events: Thomso’s Got Talent, Silent DJ and Nightlife Cafe.