apoorva kumar
@apoorvakumar
Senior Product Engineer shaping high-throughput backend and AI systems into measurable product outcomes for millions of users.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Product Engineer with 9 years designing and shipping high-throughput backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and AI-powered data analysis. I bring deep proficiency in system design, backend engineering, AI/process automations, and SLM/agentic approaches, with strong product instincts grounded in research, user psychology, and economics.
I’ve built systems processing 20M+ events/day and serving 100K+ concurrent users, including personalization powering 40M+ users. Most recently, I’ve owned end-to-end problems—from architecture and API design to AI evaluation frameworks and observability—building talent intelligence pipelines, an SLM-powered research synthesis engine that saves 6+ hours, and retention analytics layers that drive measurable business outcomes. My work ethic centers on building trust with customers, partners, and the team while delivering measurable impact.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
AI Product Engineer
Independent
Oct 2025 - Present (9 months)
Built a talent qualitative metrics system and multi-stage talent filtration pipeline, integrating candidate signals into structured data and transparent shortlist reasoning. Created a learning layer trained on real career-counsellor session data to improve filtration accuracy over time.
Senior Product Engineer (AI)
Humanify Technologies
Aug 2025 - Oct 2025 (2 months)
Designed and built an SLM-powered research synthesis engine that extracts structured insights linked to supporting interview quotes, reducing analyst effort. Implemented full observability with event tracking and health metrics, and used it as a feedback loop to automate post-research analytics, saving 12+ hours.
Technical Product Manager
WeWake Astrology & Pooja
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025 (3 months)
Led user research and built automated pre/post-session communication flows across WhatsApp and email, personalized by GA/Mixpanel/CX-derived segments and session type. Developed retention analytics and KPI dashboards in Metabase/Mixpanel, driving a 30% increase in repeat orders and CSAT improvement.
Data Engineer (Golang)
KIFS Trade Capital
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025 (8 months)
Engineered a high-throughput tick-by-tick ingestion pipeline in Golang using Apache Flink and TimescaleDB, including columnar storage with Apache Parquet and low-latency windowed aggregations. Built a centralized data platform for trading back-tests and optimized query performance, delivering 20% reduction in net trading losses and saving 30+ lakhs/week.
Product Engineer
BookMyShow
Aug 2019 - Oct 2023 (4 years 2 months)
Led migration of Ratings & Reviews from a PHP monolith to Golang microservices with MySQL to MongoDB and batch jobs to Kafka queues, improving review frequency by 70% and rating accuracy by 85%. Built critical API segregation with multi-layer caching for booking, delivering 100K+ concurrent users at ~3ms response time and improving the booking funnel by ~40% while protecting ~₹30L in peak-event sa
Software Engineer
Finnxt Technologies
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 (7 months)
Built product modules for Loannxt (B2C credit platform) using PHP and Node.js, and supported technical operations. Managed security protocols and process automation to improve delivery reliability and operational hygiene.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Maharishi Markandeshwar University
Bachelor of Technology
Grade: 7.6
Earned a B.Tech from Maharishi Markandeshwar University, graduating in 2017 with a CGPA of 7.6.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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Portfolio
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