Chandan K.
Serving Notice Period | Software Engineer at Motive | xAJIO, xSharechat, xEPAM | Backend Engineer | Microservices | System Design | Opensource | Linux
Dhanbad-Ranchi Area
5+ years of work experience
Jun 20242 yrs 4 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Architected a config-driven bulk import/edit platform powering spreadsheet-based operations across drivers, vehicles, and other entities, with async processing, transactional safety, retries, robust validation, dynamic S3-backed configs, internationalisation support, and admin tooling that enables zero-deploy updates and significantly improves reliability and scalability.
- Led end-to-end backend development for Motive Analytics report scheduling—owning TDD, full API suites, async jobs, monitoring, and comprehensive RSpec/API integration coverage—and became the primary backend owner for this core product feature.
- Drove engineering quality and productivity across the platform through extensive automated test coverage (RSpec/API integration), feature-flagged rollouts, and Datadog dashboards that improved release safety, observability, and developer velocity.
- Led MX localisation for Motive Analytics and bulk operations, enabling Spanish-language report exports and bulk templates, aligning filters and data models for MX fleets, and ensuring region-specific correctness and usability for Mexico customers.
- Mentored and onboarded multiple engineers through structured sessions, hands-on demos, and thoughtful code reviews, materially accelerating their ramp-up and increasing overall team throughput.
Feb 20231 yr 5 mosJun 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Designed & Developed diverse business flows for a Multiple-Tenant system, including Seller Onboarding,
Approval flow, Change Request Flow
• Re-architected a single-tenant system to accommodate multiple tenants (business entities) like AJIO, Tira,
JioMart, Reliance Jewels etc
• Optimized application memory footprints by 75%
• Resolved file upload service bottlenecks, enabling horizontal scalability
May 202210 mosFeb 2023
• Re-wrote experimentation platform into golang (serving peak 220K rps) to save 40+ lakhs per
annum compute cost and serve 10X requests
• In the golang re-write, followed best practices like hexagonal architecture, distributed tracing using Light-step, Prometheus monitoring, dependency injection, unit tests, K8s secrets, distributed load testing using K6s
• Decreased Interzone egress cost in K8s by 80% by introducing gzip compression saving 7.6 TB data
transfer per day
• Integrated EPPO service in our experimentation platform for teams to be able to analyze experiments
and take wiser decisions
• Revamped the experimentation platform supporting multiple new features like traffic allocation, adding
metrics, etc and migrated old platform experiments to the revamped platform
• Provided profiler as a service to other teams and helped them find bottlenecks in their services
• Created DAGs in airflow to perform syncing operations and added slack alerts to handle failures
• Helped data product team with python scripts to automate their day to day tasks
• Worked with events platform to assist iOS team in fetching, storing and analysing iOS app-metrics
May 20211 yr 1 moMay 2022
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• Worked with Goldman Sachs on document signing service on microservice architecture
• Improved security mechanism by implementing OAuth to connect to the DocuSign service
• Write test cases to cover more than 50% of code with database mocking using H2, implementing coverage checks during builds using the Jacoco framework
Chandan’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science
Punjab technical university
20174 yrs2021
80%, Study
Central Board of Secondary Education
20162016
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