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Harshit Kumar

Lead Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | System Design | AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, SQS) | Kubernetes | Scalable Backend

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Cimpress India
Jul 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and built a scalable workflow orchestration platform enabling distributed execution and monitoring of business processes Led migration of a critical backend service to Kubernetes (EKS) with zero downtime, improving reliability and scalability Built and scaled a distributed system for managing product availability and lifecycle across services Drove architectural consolidation of overlapping systems, reducing complexity and operational cost Improved system performance and resilience through database optimization and fault-tolerant design Championed adoption of AI-assisted development workflows, improving engineering velocity and code quality Mentored engineers and onboarded new team members
Cimpress India
Jul 20232 yrs 1 moJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built large-scale validation framework supporting platform migration, validating 12K+ entities Designed abstraction layers for backward-compatible system evolution Developed scalable service contracts to standardize product workflows Built search platform using OpenSearch, improving query performance and usability Implemented distributed caching (Redis), reducing latency and improving throughput Executed zero-downtime database migrations for production systems Designed cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform Developed event-driven systems using AWS (API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS) Mentored engineers and drove knowledge sharing
Cimpress India
Aug 20212 yrsJul 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and built a localization platform (APIs + UI) for scalable translation workflows Migrated system from relational DB to MongoDB with zero downtime Built generic APIs for cross-domain product data association Contributed to large-scale platform migration using dual-write strategies Developed search indexing and query systems improving performance and UX Improved system performance using caching and query optimizations Delivered multiple zero-downtime infrastructure and database upgrades Provided production support across distributed systems
Mandin (P) Limited
Apr 20205 mosAug 2020

Bangalore

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Education

CMR Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

CMR Institute Of Technology

20174 yrs2021

High School

Kalyani Central Model School

20152 yrs2017

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Headline

Lead Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | System Design | AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, SQS) | Kubernetes | Scalable Backend

About

Lead Software Engineer with experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale platform development. Focused on system design, scalability, and building reliable backend systems with zero-downtime migrations. Worked extensively on workflow engines, search platforms, and cloud-native architectures using AWS and Kubernetes. Interested in solving complex engineering problems, improving system performance, and driving engineering excellence.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

ollama

Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Cimpress India, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and built a scalable workflow orchestration platform enabling distributed execution and monitoring of business processes Led migration of a critical backend service to Kubernetes (EKS) with zero downtime, improving reliability and scalability Built and scaled a distributed system for managing product availability and lifecycle across services Drove architectural consolidation of overlapping systems, reducing complexity and operational cost Improved system performance and resilience through database optimization and fault-tolerant design Championed adoption of AI-assisted development workflows, improving engineering velocity and code quality Mentored engineers and onboarded new team members

Senior Software Engineer at Cimpress India, Jul 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built large-scale validation framework supporting platform migration, validating 12K+ entities Designed abstraction layers for backward-compatible system evolution Developed scalable service contracts to standardize product workflows Built search platform using OpenSearch, improving query performance and usability Implemented distributed caching (Redis), reducing latency and improving throughput Executed zero-downtime database migrations for production systems Designed cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform Developed event-driven systems using AWS (API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS) Mentored engineers and drove knowledge sharing

Software Engineer at Cimpress India, Aug 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and built a localization platform (APIs + UI) for scalable translation workflows Migrated system from relational DB to MongoDB with zero downtime Built generic APIs for cross-domain product data association Contributed to large-scale platform migration using dual-write strategies Developed search indexing and query systems improving performance and UX Improved system performance using caching and query optimizations Delivered multiple zero-downtime infrastructure and database upgrades Provided production support across distributed systems

Android Developer at Mandin (P) Limited, Apr 2020 - Aug 2020 · 5 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, CMR Institute Of Technology

High School, Kalyani Central Model School

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