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Harshit Raj

@rharshit82

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Backend engineer specializing in high-scale Kafka pipelines, distributed systems, and observability.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek backend or platform roles where I can build scalable distributed systems, improve observability, reduce costs, and mentor engineers in an impact-driven, collaborative team.

I am a backend engineer with three years of experience designing and operating high-scale Kafka pipelines, microservices, and observability platforms at Amazon and AdPushup. I focus on reliable, cost-efficient systems—containerizing serverless services, reducing DB footprint by 24×, and cutting cold-start latency by 40% while mentoring teammates and driving cross-team API integrations.

My work includes building a 3.2B+ daily-request Kafka feedback infrastructure, multi-threaded ingestion pipelines, real-time anomaly detection with Kafka Streams, and Prometheus+Grafana observability stacks that halved MTTR. I contribute to open source projects, build automation tools, and emphasize measurable impact in production systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Development Engineer I

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Amazon

Oct 2025 - Present (8 months)

Built and maintained backend features for order exchange and returns, containerized large Lambda services to cut cold-start latency by 40%, and reduced DB footprint from 24GB to 600MB through compliant data purging to achieve major cost savings.

Java Spring Boot Docker AWS Lambda AWS CDK Cloudwatch CI CD Microservices

Software Engineer

AdPushup

Mar 2023 - Sep 2025 (2 years 6 months)

Engineered Kafka-based feedback infrastructure processing 3.2B+ daily requests, built multi-threaded ingestion reducing report lag by 90%, and implemented observability stack that improved MTTR by 50% while delivering ad-delivery optimizations that lifted eCPM by ~20%.