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Alok P.

Software Engineer @ Booking.com | Ex-Flexport, CRED | Backend & Platform Engineering | NIT Surat

Bengaluru

3+ years of work experience

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)
Sep 20262 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building centralized platforms for AI infrastructure provisioning, governance, and reliability on Google Cloud (GCP)
Flexport
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosAug 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Domain: Logistics | Omnichannel Commerce | Backend Engineering - Engineered a high-performance caching layer for the product catalog service using Redis lazy-loading, reverse indexes, and negative caching, reducing P95 latency by 85% (442ms → 64ms) and database load by 94% (1.1M → 66K QPS). - Built an MCP server enabling AI agents to invoke live production APIs and developed Claude-powered agentic workflows that automatically extracted incident action items and managed COE review processes. - Designed a dynamic seller-aware rate limiting system using a 5-tier priority resolution engine (Chain of Responsibility) with Redis caching, enabling real-time configuration updates without deployments and unlocking tier-based rate monetization. - Architected an event-driven inventory synchronization pipeline using AWS Kinesis and Lambda, processing 100K+ transactions every 5 minutes with resilient retries, DLQs, circuit breakers, and WMS integrations via bulk APIs and SFTP. - Designed and shipped a fault-tolerant, event-driven image ingestion platform using AWS Lambda, SQS, S3, and CloudFront, supporting secure URL-based uploads with SSRF protection, image optimization, EXIF stripping, idempotent processing, and resilient retries. - Built the backend for the TikTok Shop–Flexport integration end-to-end, covering product ingestion, order ingestion, inventory synchronization, and shipment reporting workflows. - Migrated the Walmart integration from Basic Authentication to OAuth 2.0 while maintaining full backward compatibility, enabling seamless onboarding for 10+ merchants without service disruption. - Developed a performance testing platform using k6, Prometheus, and Grafana to simulate 3–5× peak traffic, identify bottlenecks, and improve production reliability ahead of high-traffic events.
CRED
Jul 20231 yr 10 mosApr 2025

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Domain: Fintech | DevOps | Platform Engineering | Developer Productivity - Built the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, with service catalog and automated resource / microservice onboarding workflows - reducing new microservice onboarding time to <1 minute. - Developed a Centralized Metadata Service (CMDS) managing 18+ environments, serving as the single source of truth and enabling seamless integration across tools and services. - Authored Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules in Pulumi for AWS (Load Balancers, CodeDeploy, Kinesis, SSM), improving deployment efficiency, reusability, and standardization across teams. - Optimized CI/CD pipelines by parallelizing Pulumi stack previews with Go routines + topological sort, reducing infra job runtimes from 30 mins → <2 mins. - Implemented complex deployment strategies (blue-green & canary) for ECS services using Pulumi, enabling safe, low-disruption rollouts with precise traffic controls. - Led end-to-end execution of critical platform projects, collaborating with security, backend, and data teams to deliver developer productivity solutions at scale.
CRED
Jan 20237 mosJul 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Domain: Fintech | DevOps | Platform Engineering | Developer Productivity - Optimized CI/CD pipelines by rewriting the Docker build stage to support multi-architecture (AMD + ARM) images, enabling migration to Graviton ECS clusters and driving ~30% cost savings per service. - Led the 1.7TB Jenkins master data migration from AWS EFS to EBS with <30 mins downtime, maintaining 99.99% uptime. - Managed production on-call for 400+ microservices, ensuring availability, reliability, and incident resolution. - Partnered with Backend, Security, Compliance, and Data teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions and meet organizational requirements.
GEP Worldwide
May 20223 mosJul 2022

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Developed a generic API logger as a reusable NuGet package, enabling sister teams to integrate consistent logging across projects. - Integrated logs with New Relic dashboards for real-time monitoring, debugging, and customized performance charts using NRQL. - Designed and implemented code following SOLID principles to ensure scalability and maintainability. - Built a custom code formatter supporting GitOps-based rules and team-specific styling conventions. - Contributed to Angular-based dashboards for improved visualization and application monitoring. - Recognized for performance with a Pre-Placement Offer.
GitHub
@Alok650

Alok’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini
mcp
mcp
n8n
n8n
notion
notion

Education

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

kendriya vidyalaya

Intermediate, Science Stream

kendriya vidyalaya

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Headline

Software Engineer @ Booking.com | Ex-Flexport, CRED | Backend & Platform Engineering | NIT Surat

About

Software Engineer(Full-Stack Developer) with 3 years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, microservices, and full-stack web application development. Proficient in developing scalable APIs, distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and responsive frontend applications. Experienced with system design, REST APIs, database design, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and modern software engineering practices. Strong focus on performance optimization, maintainability, scalability, and delivering high-quality software solutions in agile development environments. Technical Skills: Languages: Golang, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, SQL, Java Web Frameworks: React, Angular, NextJs, Node.js, Express, Koa, HTML, CSS Other Technologies: Git, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, REST APIs, GraphQL, Loki, Grafana, prometheus

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

mcp

n8n

notion

Work experience

Software Engineer (Platform Engineering) at Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), Sep 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building centralized platforms for AI infrastructure provisioning, governance, and reliability on Google Cloud (GCP)

Software Engineer at Flexport, Apr 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Domain: Logistics | Omnichannel Commerce | Backend Engineering - Engineered a high-performance caching layer for the product catalog service using Redis lazy-loading, reverse indexes, and negative caching, reducing P95 latency by 85% (442ms → 64ms) and database load by 94% (1.1M → 66K QPS). - Built an MCP server enabling AI agents to invoke live production APIs and developed Claude-powered agentic workflows that automatically extracted incident action items and managed COE review processes. - Designed a dynamic seller-aware rate limiting system using a 5-tier priority resolution engine (Chain of Responsibility) with Redis caching, enabling real-time configuration updates without deployments and unlocking tier-based rate monetization. - Architected an event-driven inventory synchronization pipeline using AWS Kinesis and Lambda, processing 100K+ transactions every 5 minutes with resilient retries, DLQs, circuit breakers, and WMS integrations via bulk APIs and SFTP. - Designed and shipped a fault-tolerant, event-driven image ingestion platform using AWS Lambda, SQS, S3, and CloudFront, supporting secure URL-based uploads with SSRF protection, image optimization, EXIF stripping, idempotent processing, and resilient retries. - Built the backend for the TikTok Shop–Flexport integration end-to-end, covering product ingestion, order ingestion, inventory synchronization, and shipment reporting workflows. - Migrated the Walmart integration from Basic Authentication to OAuth 2.0 while maintaining full backward compatibility, enabling seamless onboarding for 10+ merchants without service disruption. - Developed a performance testing platform using k6, Prometheus, and Grafana to simulate 3–5× peak traffic, identify bottlenecks, and improve production reliability ahead of high-traffic events.

Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Engineering) at CRED, Jul 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Domain: Fintech | DevOps | Platform Engineering | Developer Productivity - Built the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, with service catalog and automated resource / microservice onboarding workflows - reducing new microservice onboarding time to <1 minute. - Developed a Centralized Metadata Service (CMDS) managing 18+ environments, serving as the single source of truth and enabling seamless integration across tools and services. - Authored Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules in Pulumi for AWS (Load Balancers, CodeDeploy, Kinesis, SSM), improving deployment efficiency, reusability, and standardization across teams. - Optimized CI/CD pipelines by parallelizing Pulumi stack previews with Go routines + topological sort, reducing infra job runtimes from 30 mins → <2 mins. - Implemented complex deployment strategies (blue-green & canary) for ECS services using Pulumi, enabling safe, low-disruption rollouts with precise traffic controls. - Led end-to-end execution of critical platform projects, collaborating with security, backend, and data teams to deliver developer productivity solutions at scale.

Site Reliability Engineer at CRED, Jan 2023 - Jul 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Domain: Fintech | DevOps | Platform Engineering | Developer Productivity - Optimized CI/CD pipelines by rewriting the Docker build stage to support multi-architecture (AMD + ARM) images, enabling migration to Graviton ECS clusters and driving ~30% cost savings per service. - Led the 1.7TB Jenkins master data migration from AWS EFS to EBS with <30 mins downtime, maintaining 99.99% uptime. - Managed production on-call for 400+ microservices, ensuring availability, reliability, and incident resolution. - Partnered with Backend, Security, Compliance, and Data teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions and meet organizational requirements.

Technology Intern at GEP Worldwide, May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Developed a generic API logger as a reusable NuGet package, enabling sister teams to integrate consistent logging across projects. - Integrated logs with New Relic dashboards for real-time monitoring, debugging, and customized performance charts using NRQL. - Designed and implemented code following SOLID principles to ensure scalability and maintainability. - Built a custom code formatter supporting GitOps-based rules and team-specific styling conventions. - Contributed to Angular-based dashboards for improved visualization and application monitoring. - Recognized for performance with a Pre-Placement Offer.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

Intermediate, Science Stream, kendriya vidyalaya

Public links

github: https://github.com/Alok650