Looking for fast paced work environment in order to grow, learn and become a better Engineer involving skills in Backend / Full-Stack Development. Seeking new challenges in the realm of Software Engineering.
Shivam Jha
@shivamxj
I'm an experienced Software Engineer based in Bengaluru, In. Looking forward to new opportunities.
What I'm looking for
Shivam Jha | Backend Software Engineer
Backend Engineer with 4 years of experience engineering resilient distributed systems across GoKwik, Scale AI, Samsung R&D, and Amazon. Focused heavily on System Design, reliability engineering, and high-throughput data processing.
Languages & Infra: Go • TypeScript • Node.js (NestJS) • Python • C++ • AWS (Lambda, SQS, EKS) • Docker • Kubernetes • ArgoCD.
Data & Messaging: Kafka • Redis • ClickHouse • PostgreSQL • MongoDB • DynamoDB • Database Optimisation.
Practices & Security: Event-Driven Architecture • Idempotency/DLQ • SQL-Injection Prevention • PII Encryption.
System Design & Practices: Distributed Systems • Reliability Engineering • Production Security (VAPT) • High-level Design • Design Patterns • REST APIs • GraphQL • Websockets
AI Tooling: Claude Code • Cursor • Codex • MCP • Gemini • Perplexity.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Engineer - Backend
Gokwik
Aug 2025 - Present (11 months)
• Architected an asynchronous, lossless media-compression pipeline (S3 → SQS → Lambda) in a dedicated kc-media-processor service with
idempotency markers, DLQ-backed retries, and full metadata/header passthrough, compressing images post-upload with zero added upload-API
latency and a >99% compression-success target on eligible files; later extended the same event-driven pattern to video.
Developed and maintained full-stack web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Go, implementing SSR and API routes to improve performance by 22%. Built RESTful APIs with Node.js/Express and optimized PostgreSQL interactions for large distributed datasets, integrating third-party services and observability with DataDog.
Implemented React Web-Chat for 10,000+ users, cutting response time by 20%.
Revamped backend with Node.js, Socket.IO, Express, saving $1,800/month, boosting performance by 30%.
Orchestrated Docker, Kubernetes deployment, saving 40%, ensuring 98% uptime, handling 3x peak traffic.
Enhanced security with Bcrypt, JWT, OAuth, reducing unauthorized access by 95%, and upgraded encryption to Libsodium.
- Cut computation time by 96-97% for large datasets (2-5 Petabytes).
- Raised Amazon’s Data Quality Standards, saving $2,500/month.
- Optimized services with team of 7 using React, Java, Typescript, Python.
- Streamlined Data Quality Standards/Statistics calculation with Ray, upgraded data accessibility with Amazon DynamoDB.
- Engineered React-based UI to improve decision-making, user experience.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
2018 - 2022
Grade: 8.1 (CGPA)
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology with coursework in Data Structures and Algorithms, Web Development, DBMS, OS, Computer Networks, and System Design.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
GitHub
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Cloudflare
Jenkins
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Node.js
Next.js
NestJS
Redis
Jira
React
Webpack
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
JSON
C++
Kafka
BullMQ
Flask
ExpressJS
Django REST framework
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
nodemon
Amazon DynamoDB
Windows
Datadog
SigNoz
Gemini
GraphQL
Firebase
Socket.IO
gRPC
AWS Lambda
Serverless
TypeScript
JSON Web Token
OAuth2
Git
Docker
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SQL
Jaeger
Clickhouse
Snyk
Mongoose
Kong Gateway
Ray
ArgoCD
Vite
Recoil
Scale AI
Greptile
Claude Code
Durable
Remote
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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Social media
Job categories
Skills
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