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Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3) @ Kickdrum | Real Time Systems • React • AWS • Spring • Go | Cloud-Native Applications

About

asish@linkedin:~$ whoami Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience building cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and developer platforms that scale. I've worked across the stack - from modern React frontends to Spring Boot, Go, and serverless AWS backends - architecting systems that prioritize reliability, performance, and maintainability. My work has ranged from migrating legacy applications and designing real-time event pipelines to building developer tooling, Infrastructure as Code, and fine-grained authorization systems. I enjoy untangling complex technical problems, reducing latency, simplifying deployments, and automating the things engineers shouldn't have to do twice. Whether it's optimizing a critical rendering path, designing event-driven architectures, extending open-source connectors, or improving developer experience, I like leaving systems cleaner than I found them. Tech I frequently work with: Java • Go • TypeScript • React • Spring Boot • AWS • Distributed Systems • Serverless • Event-Driven Architecture • Microservices • PostgreSQL • DynamoDB • Redis • Kafka • Infrastructure as Code Outside of work, you'll usually find me respawning in a game, queueing up another life altering podcast episode or fixing my sleep schedule exit 0

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3) at Kickdrum, Jul 2026 - Present · 4 mos

Software Engineer (SDE-2) at Kickdrum, Jul 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Real-Time Event Management Platform - Architected the platform's flagship real-time dashboard, building a low-latency event streaming pipeline using PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY, SignalR, Redis, and Server-Sent Events. - Developed a reusable Redux-based event processing framework, simplifying integration of new real-time data sources. - Engineered a custom forked Debezium MSSQL Change Tracking Connector, maintaining 100% compatibility with the existing Kafka/Flink pipeline while avoiding CDC on the primary database. - Optimized database overhead by combining Change Tracking queries on the primary database with read replica lookups, minimizing production load. Performance Management Platform - Delivered a config-driven employee development planning framework for career progression across multiple disciplines/tracks of the organisation. - Led the migration from legacy CloudFormation and manually managed infrastructure to a modular AWS CDK architecture, importing stateful resources with zero downtime and zero data loss. - Re-architected authorization using Amazon Verified Permissions (Cedar), replacing DynamoDB-based RBAC with scalable, policy-driven access control integrated with Cognito JWT enrichment. - Migrated the platform to a Nx monorepo, improving build performance, tooling, and developer productivity. - Built a Go Lang-based developer CLI with OAuth 2.0 + PKCE authentication, concurrent multi AWS Service operations using Goroutines, and automated cross-platform CI/CD distribution. USAF Pilot Scheduling Modernization - Modernized a mission-critical USAF pilot scheduling application by migrating legacy KnockoutJS components to React while preserving feature parity. - Optimized websocket-driven UI performance, achieving sub-millisecond render times by eliminating unnecessary re-renders on the Criticial Rendering Path - Established a reusable Cypress end-to-end testing framework, improving regression coverage and release reliability.

Software Developer (SDE-1) at Kickdrum, Jul 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Teleco Platform - Contributed to a mission-critical telecom charging platform's polyglot codebase across Spring Boot, Go, Scala, TypeScript (AWS CDK), Python, and Flink, supporting high-throughput production systems. - Modernized legacy Java, Go, and AWS SDK versions, reducing application latency by 10%, protocol-layer latency by 5%, and deployment times by 33%. - Designed and implemented a batch latency sampling framework in Go that published CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format (EMF) metrics, providing p50, p90, and p99 latency visibility for production monitoring, optimized Lambda cold starts using SnapStart, and upgraded Flink/Kinesis streaming jobs. - Supported production operations and authored engineering runbooks covering AWS Athena, VPC Flow Logs, Network Load Balancer Access Logs, AppSync GraphQL, and AWS Glue. Performance Assessment Platform - Migrated the organization's internal performance assessment platform from an always-on architecture to a fully serverless AWS solution, reducing infrastructure costs by ~90% while scaling seamlessly during appraisal cycles. - Delivered full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Serverless Framework, DynamoDB, and AWS, optimizing API performance through efficient DynamoDB query design. - Automated configurable reminder workflows with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, improving operational efficiency. Talent Acquisition Platform - Developed a microservices-based Talent Acquisition and Performance Management platform using Spring Boot and Temporal, enabling configurable workflow-driven hiring. - Leveraged AI-assisted development workflows to deliver 15+ production-ready admin screens with reusable APIs and integrations in a single sprint. - Implemented Micro Frontends using Module Federation, enabling independent application deployment within a shared host architecture and implemented a reusable authentication layer that seamlessly shared state across the Micro Frontend.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Student, PCM, New Horizon Scholars School - India

Public links

github: https://github.com/asish918