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Senior Software Engineer | Backend · Distributed Systems · Cloud Infrastructure | DevRev · IIT KGP · DAAD Scholar · Published @ ECML-PKDD

About

I joined DevRev as an intern when the product was early-stage. Four years later, I've shipped core infrastructure that engineering teams at thousands of companies depend on daily. At DevRev, I design and own distributed backend systems in Go on AWS: workflow orchestration engines, global snap-in deployment architecture, enterprise security frameworks, and template management platforms. My background is unusual for a backend engineer: Integrated MS in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Kharagpur (JEE Advanced AIR 1208 among 1.2M candidates), a summer doing ML research on climate anomalies at University of Tübingen on a DAAD scholarship, and a published paper at ECML-PKDD 2022 in NLP. The math instinct makes me faster at the hard parts of distributed systems — consistency models, failure modes, algorithmic complexity at scale. I write Go. I think in systems. I care deeply about correctness and craft. altaf623a@gmail.com | https://github.com/altafdevrev

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Member of Technical Staff at DevRev, Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Member of Technical Staff Intern at DevRev, May 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Research Intern at University of Tuebingen, May 2021 - Sep 2021 · 5 mos, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Research in Machine Learning for Climate Sciences : Climate Variability of Surface Temperature over India

Summer Internship at University of New Brunswick, Apr 2021 - Sep 2021 · 6 mos, Canada, Intelligence-driven Cyber Attribution System

Co-founder and Educator at Withoutpen, Dec 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Teaching and Encouraging young minds to learn the beauty of Mathematics.

Winter Intern at IIT Bhubaneswar, Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 · 4 mos, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Internship under The Department of Science & Technology (DST), sponsored research project RP215 titled "Space-time domain decomposition methods for non-linear Cahn-Hilliard equation and their implementations in parallel computers".

Education

5yr Integrated MSc - Master of Science, Mathematics and Computing with Minor in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

St. Michael's High School, Patna

Public links

github: https://github.com/altafDevRev