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Paras Garg

@parasgarg

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Senior Python backend developer and team lead building scalable cloud-native systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek backend or cloud-focused roles where I can lead engineering efforts, build scalable APIs and systems, mentor teams, and drive measurable performance and reliability improvements.

I am a Senior Python developer and Team Lead with 8+ years of hands-on back-end development experience, currently driving back-end initiatives and engineering teams to deliver production-grade systems.

I specialize in Python, Django and Django REST Framework, designing RESTful APIs, microservices and cloud-native applications across facility management, insur-tech and edu-tech domains.

I architect and operate AWS-based infrastructure (EC2, S3, SQS, CloudWatch, IAM), containerized CI/CD pipelines with Docker and GitHub Actions, and asynchronous processing using Celery, achieving measurable improvements in efficiency and reliability.

I mentor engineers, lead code reviews and cross-functional collaboration, and have a track record of improving team output and system performance through database optimization, third-party integrations and pragmatic DevOps practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Python Developer

Jellyfish Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Nov 2022 - Sep 2025 (2 years 10 months)

Architected and delivered end-to-end backend solutions using Python, Django and DRF, built RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, and optimized cloud infrastructure to increase operational efficiency by 60%.

Python Django Django REST Framework AWS EC2 S3 SQS Docker Celery PostgreSQL CI CD

Software Engineer

Mercedes Benz Research and Development India

Aug 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Developed and maintained Django applications for automotive embedded systems, migrated MongoDB to Django ORM and improved data access efficiency by 30% while ensuring production-grade performance.

Python Django MongoDB SQL Performance Tuning Testing Agile CI CD

Software Engineer

Swiflearn.com

Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 (11 months)

Built a WhatsApp Business API integrated messaging platform and implemented AWS SQS-based queuing to improve message processing reliability and reduce delivery latency by 50%.

Python Django WhatsApp Business API SQS Firebase SMTP Messaging Systems Performance Optimization

Software Engineer

Renewbuy.com

Dec 2019 - Aug 2020 (8 months)

Engineered travel insurance policy workflows and an automated policy renewal engine that reduced manual processing overhead by 60% and increased business conversion by 10%.

Python API Integration Automation SQL Testing Regulatory Compliance CI CD

Associate Software Engineer

Cerence Services India LLP

Jun 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 6 months)

Implemented automated test suites and integrated ASR engines with Python backends, reducing ASR processing latency by 20% and lowering manual testing cycles through device automation.

Python Automated Testing ADB Embedded Systems CI CD Performance Testing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

BBDNITM (UPTU), Lucknow

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science completed at BBDNITM (affiliated to UPTU) focusing on software development and backend engineering concepts.