---
title: "Abhay Upadhyay - Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Abhay Upadhyay, SWE @PocketFM | Fullstack & Gen AI | Ex-Yugabyte | Knight @leetcode | Expert @Codeforces | Amazon ML Summer School ’25 | Semifinalist @Amazon HackOn 5.0 & @Flipkart Grid 6.0 | IIITA@26 based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/abhay-upadhyay/share-image"
---

# Abhay Upadhyay on Tal

## Headline

SWE @PocketFM \| Fullstack & Gen AI \| Ex\-Yugabyte \| Knight @leetcode \| Expert @Codeforces \| Amazon ML Summer School ’25 \| Semifinalist @Amazon HackOn 5\.0 & @Flipkart Grid 6\.0 \| IIITA@26

## About

🎓 I am a B\.Tech student in Electronics & Communication Engineering at IIIT Allahabad, currently working as a Software Developer at Pocket FM, building scalable backend systems and distributed services\. 💻 I specialize in backend engineering, distributed systems, and full\-stack development, with hands\-on experience in Go, Node\.js, TypeScript, Redis, ScyllaDB, Kubernetes, and REST/gRPC services\. At Pocket FM, I built a production\-grade OIDC authentication system and scalable event\-routing pipelines used across multiple internal platforms\. Stack: Go · Python · TypeScript \| Kafka · ClickHouse · ScyllaDB · Redis · Kubernetes · AWS · Docker \| PyTorch · CLIP · LangChain 🔍 Currently seeking Backend Software Engineering / Distributed Systems / Full\-Stack roles where I can build scalable systems and contribute to high\-impact engineering teams\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Pocket FM, Jul 2026 \- Present · 4 mos

Software Engineer Intern at Pocket FM, Jan 2026 \- Jul 2026 · 7 mos, Built an OIDC/SSO provider in Go \(Gin\) securing 100\+ dashboards for 500\+ users across 15 teams\. Engineered a distributed ScyllaDB event routing microservice across 4 ad platforms with 92% test coverage\. Delivered a full\-stack VDP feature in Next\.js 16 \+ React 19 with Zustand, i18n, and automated Jest tests\.

Software Engineer Intern at Yugabyte, Jul 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Architected a Kafka \+ ClickHouse logging pipeline processing 20M\+ logs/day with 95% cost reduction\. Built a Node\.js event routing system for 300\+ platform agents via SSE, reducing MySQL queries by 90%\. Orchestrated a Kubernetes/AWS/Azure failover mechanism routing 20% of daily transactions with zero downtime\.

Executive at Aparoksha, IIIT Allahabad, Mar 2024 \- Apr 2024 · 2 mos, Mentored and guided number of coding and webinar events\.

Senior Web Developer at Google Developer Student Clubs, IIIT\-Allahabad, Jan 2024 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

Executive at Effervescence, IIIT Allahabad, Oct 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 4 mos, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Volunteer at Aparoksha, IIIT Allahabad, Apr 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 1 yr

Web Developer at Google Developer Student Clubs, IIIT\-Allahabad, Jan 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Volunteer at Effervescence, IIIT Allahabad, Nov 2022 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

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