Chetan Akash Vankadara

I’m a Backend Software Engineer with 2 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems at Ixigo (AbhiBus), serving lakhs of users daily. I specialize in Node.js, Kafka pipelines, and distributed data infrastructure, with a strong focus on measurable production outcomes.

At Ixigo (AbhiBus), I led the end-to-end migration of the core bus inventory system from PHP to Node.js as one of two owning engineers, reducing service latency by 50% and eliminating downtime while scaling to 1.25 lakh daily bookings and ~1 crore service calls per day. I built Kafka topic pipelines to decouple producers and consumers, scaled Kafka consumers using AWS ELB and auto-scaling to cut heap usage by 50%, and redesigned MySQL schema/query patterns to reduce query latency by 90% and data redundancy by 60–70%. I also integrated ScyllaDB for tuned distributed storage (cutting read/write latency by ~40%) and engineered ClickHouse integration for sub-second real-time analytics.

I enjoy blending systems engineering with practical results—whether it’s implementing the Bellman–Ford scheduling algorithm (90–95% route accuracy) or designing microservices frameworks that reduced deployment cycles by 40% and maintenance overhead by 30%. Earlier, I built a serverless real-time chat platform during my internship using ReactJS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, WebSockets, WebRTC, and AWS Cognito, and I’m currently building GoQueue, a distributed task queue engine with Redis/PostgreSQL storage, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana dashboards.