// Backend Engineer

Sourav Sharma

Software Development Engineer specializing in large-scale distributed systems, microservices architecture, and high-throughput backend infrastructure.

3.5+
Years Experience
$65M+
Transaction Volume
75%
Latency Reduction
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// About

Building Reliable Systems at Scale

I'm a Backend Engineer with 3.5+ years of experience designing, owning, and operating large-scale distributed systems at Amazon and high-growth startups. My work focuses on building resilient microservices that handle millions of transactions with strict reliability requirements.

I've led critical infrastructure migrations with zero downtime, architected escrow systems handling $6M+ monthly volume, and driven performance optimizations that reduced API latency by 75%. I take ownership end-to-end: from system design through production operations, monitoring, and on-call support.

Currently at Sugar.fit, I'm integrating AI-powered capabilities into backend services and building automation platforms using DAG-based workflows and RAG-style integrations.

// Core Focus

> Distributed Systems Design
> Microservices Architecture
> Zero-Downtime Migrations
> High-Throughput Systems
> Production Operations
> AI/LLM Integration

// Tech Stack

Technical Skills

# Languages

Java Python SQL

# Frameworks & Backend

Spring Boot Hibernate gRPC

# Infrastructure & Cloud

AWS EKS Lambda API Gateway S3 Kubernetes Docker Jenkins

# Messaging & Data

Apache Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Qdrant

# Observability & Ops

Grafana Prometheus Datadog Monitoring Alerting

# Applied AI

LLM APIs RAG Workflows Backend Orchestration

// Experience

Professional Journey

Sugar.fit

Sep 2024 - Present
Bengaluru, India

Software Development Engineer II

  • Designed and owned backend services integrating AI-powered capabilities (computer vision and LLM APIs), improving feature adoption by 14% and user repeat rate by 29%
  • Built customer support automation platform using DAG-based workflows and RAG-style integrations, reducing manual operational overhead
  • Led zero-downtime migration of legacy metrics service using dual-write and validation strategies
  • Drove payment gateway migration to Razorpay/Easebuzz, owning system design and rollout strategy, eliminating commission fees without customer impact
  • Owned checkout reliability and experimentation, running A/B tests resulting in 87K+ incremental conversions

Tap Invest

May 2023 - Sep 2024
Bengaluru, India

Software Development Engineer

  • Designed and owned gRPC + Kafka-based microservices architecture, reducing API latency by 75% (800ms to 200ms)
  • Architected strongly consistent escrow system handling $6M+ monthly transaction volume, scaling to $65M+ total throughput
  • Drove system-level decisions on data consistency, messaging guarantees, and service boundaries under high concurrency
  • Designed configurable referral platform achieving 35% user conversion
  • Owned monitoring, alerting, and on-call support for mission-critical financial backend services

Amazon Music

Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Berlin, Germany

Software Development Engineer Intern

  • Developed internal infrastructure cost explorer for multi-tenant systems, enabling granular visibility into resource utilization
  • Implemented optimization strategies resulting in 15% reduction in infrastructure cost

Homiskool Pvt Ltd

Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Remote

Junior Software Engineer

  • Developed Flutter mobile application and notification system, increasing course sales by 20% and user engagement by 15%
  • Built backend services using Python and Google Cloud Platform for scalable APIs and real-time notification pipelines

// Education

Academic Background

CV Raman Global University

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

2018 - 2022 | Bhubaneswar, India

// Contact

Let's Connect

Open to discussing backend engineering opportunities, distributed systems challenges, or interesting technical problems.

souravgopal25@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub +91-7979970460