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Vandana Kumari

@vandanakumari1

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Backend-focused software engineer building scalable microservices and AI-powered search systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a product-focused role where I can own backend services end-to-end, improve reliability/observability, and build embeddings/RAG-powered features—shipping fast with strong engineering discipline and measurable impact.

I’m a Software Engineer with 2+ years building scalable backend systems and distributed microservices supporting millions of daily active users. At Mercari India, I built an Image Search system that enabled similar product discovery via embeddings and vector DB retrieval, increasing ¥77.4M/month GMV lift and 1,801% ROI while serving 2M+ monthly search UUs.

I also take ownership across reliability, observability, and delivery: integrating circuit breakers, implementing SLOs and PagerDuty alerts via Datadog (cutting on-call pages by 50%), and automating CI/CD with environment-scoped migrations using Goose. Alongside strong backend engineering, I’m exploring LLMs and RAG pipelines to ship AI-powered systems with a reliability-first mindset.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Developer Intern

UniAcco

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 (2 months)

Optimized content for 35,000+ university profile pages using OpenAI’s API and automated periodic web scraping with Celery and BeautifulSoup to improve UniScholar SEO ranking. Built sitemap and URL tooling (slug generator and API decoder) and reduced Elasticsearch indexing time by 60% by splitting master and listing indexer flows.

OpenAI API Celery BeautifulSoup Web Scraping Sitemaps URL Generation Spring Boot Elasticsearch SEO Optimization API Decoding

Software Engineer Intern

Wozo Gaming

Oct 2022 - Dec 2022 (2 months)

Built a custom search-response flow for a third-party site to enable selling Wozo products on the partner website. Managed API inter-dependencies and deprecated v1 endpoints (used by <2.5k users) while migrating traffic to v2.

Custom Search Integration API Versioning Endpoint Deprecation Inter Service Dependency Management Migration Planning