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title: "Ashwani K. - SDE-2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ashwani K., SDE-2 | Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems • Cloud Architecture • Kafka • Rails based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and openai."
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# Ashwani K\. on Tal

## Headline

SDE\-2 \| Backend Engineer \| Distributed Systems • Cloud Architecture • Kafka • Rails

## About

Backend & platform engineer with 3\+ years of experience building large\-scale distributed systems, leading cloud migrations, and designing high\-throughput event pipelines\. I’ve led multi\-quarter AWS→GCP migrations for revenue\-critical services, built cloud\-agnostic abstractions, and delivered major cost, reliability, and performance improvements across engineering teams\. My experience spans: • Distributed systems & microservices • Cloud modernization \(AWS, GCP\) • IaC with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes • Real\-time messaging \(Kafka, Pub/Sub\), Protobuf • Performance optimization & database tuning • Event\-driven architecture & data pipelines • Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Java I enjoy solving complex backend problems, improving system reliability, and designing architecture that scales across teams\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

codex

openai

claudecode

## Work experience

SDE\-2 at Porter, May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Led AWS → GCP migration for core revenue flows; built cloud\-agnostic abstractions reducing cloud cost by 30%\. \- Designed a scalable events data pipeline using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Snowflake enabling near real\-time segmentation\. \-Implemented Terraform IaC across 10\+ projects improving visibility and team ownership\. \-Built middleware layers and redesigned core business logic for scalability\.

SDE 1 at Porter, Jul 2022 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Automated city/vehicle config rollout reducing deployment time from 2 weeks → 10 minutes \(99\.4% improvement\)\. \- Optimized DB usage, reducing traffic from 1786/min to 129/min and freeing 30GB of RDS memory\. \- Improved query performance by 50% via redesign and consolidation\.

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2021 \- Jul 2022 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \-Used spring boot to generate reports for the clients\. \-Splunk and Apace to create fna monitor alerts\.

Flutter developer intern at StringsWay Tech, Aug 2019 \- Oct 2019 · 3 mos, work from home

Summer Intern at Tata Steel, Jul 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 1 mo, Jamshedpur Area, India, Worked on IT Dashboard Project

## Education

BE \- Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology

Tata DAV Public School

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