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Anukkrit Shanker

@anukkritshanker

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Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in microservices and cloud infrastructure.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a role that fosters innovation, encourages team collaboration, and offers opportunities for professional growth in cloud and backend technologies.

I'm a Senior Backend & Lead Engineer with over 4 years of experience in designing, building, and operating high-scale microservices and cloud-native infrastructures. My journey has been marked by a proven track record of leading teams, delivering business-critical features, and driving cross-functional collaboration to achieve significant impacts in fast-paced environments.

At Karnot, I scaled the Starknet infrastructure and launched the Kakarot testnet, achieving an impressive 99.95% uptime while handling 25 million requests per day. My leadership experience includes managing a five-engineer platform squad, where I introduced structured code reviews and SRE dashboards, reducing incident frequency by 40% in just six months. My technical expertise spans across Golang, Python, Rust, and various cloud technologies, enabling me to deliver innovative solutions that drive efficiency and performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Founding Engineer / Lead Engineer

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Karnot

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Scaled Starknet infrastructure, launching the Kakarot testnet to handle 25M requests/day with 99.95% uptime. Designed a cloud portal for spinning up Starknet rollups on AWS in under 30 minutes, implementing custom Crossplane CRDs and baking in end-to-end alerting and unified observability.

Kubernetes Golang Python Rust AWS Crossplane KEDA Kubebuilder SRE

Software Engineer 2 (Backend)

Zepto

May 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 10 months)

Built and managed a high-volume Ads Platform processing over 4M events/hour, implementing real-time ad cost deduction and personalized feeds, which increased ads revenue by 29%. Led the development of a scheduled delivery feature, reducing order loss by 13.6% and increasing Average Order Value by 22.8%.

Backend Development Fraud Detection Mentorship Python Go)

Backend Engineer

Trell

Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Developed and scaled over 8 microservices in Go for an 8M+ user base, maintaining sub-150ms response times at 45k RPM. Migrated user-critical services from a monolith to microservices, unifying authentication securely across Trell products.

Microservices Golang Database Architecture Performance Optimization User Retention Authentication

Backend Engineer

GoKwik

Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 (7 months)

Developed a PHP SDK for payment integration across various eCommerce platforms and created a Shopify checkout solution handling over 15k daily transactions. Redesigned legacy payment systems, improving analytics and RTO behavior tracking.

Payment Integration Shopify REST GraphQL Microservices RTO Prediction