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SDE III @ Expedia | Ex-Target, Flipkart | ACM ICPC 2017-19

About

Senior backend engineer specializing in Go & Java, high-throughput services, and data orchestration systems with a proven track record of building resilient, scalable, fault-tolerant systems that drive measurable business outcomes. Skilled in Golang, Java, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and System design. Ranked 12 in 2018 ACM ICPC Asia Kolkata-Kanpur Onsite Regional Contest. Ranked 27 in 2018 ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Doublesite Regional Contest. Ranked 34 in 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Doublesite Regional Contest. All India Rank 1 in IEEEXtreme 12.0 Programming Competition 2018. Finalist in CodersBit 2018 (Top 90 out of 30K participants) Portfolio: https://kapillamba4.github.io GitHub: https://github.com/kapillamba4 HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/the_koder Codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/kapil4 Email: kapillamba4@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

ollama

Work experience

SDE III at Expedia Group, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Engineer at Target, Sep 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Worked on Target’s data orchestration engine, delivering reliable and scalable workflow scheduling for data teams. • Built the platform’s Terraform provider in Go, adopted across 50+ projects, enabling infrastructure as code with auditability, rollback, and smoother collaboration. • Enhanced platform resiliency through workflow recovery, targeted chaos tests, broader integration tests coverage, and stability-focused patches—bringing incidents near zero. • Integrated the organization’s unified IAM/RBAC system, streamlining permissions and reducing access-management overhead.

Software Engineer 2 at Flipkart, Mar 2024 - Aug 2024 · 6 mos, 1. Spearheaded architecture & development of flipkart’s UPI stack - onboarding and send‑money journeys. 2. Shipped Autopay and RuPay Credit Card support for UPI. 3. Built/optimized UPI onboarding time & P2P flows, integrated offers to drive adoption. 4. Provided mentorship to new joiners.

Software Engineer at Flipkart, Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, 1. Ownership of the Flipkart API Gateway Layer (Handles 100K+ requests/sec & 100+ downsteam services); built/maintained its prometheus stack. Identified & removed perf bottlenecks incrementally so it could handle sale spikes far beyond BAU. 2. Shipped Brand Mall mode (iOS/Android) - a homepage toggle highlighting top brands and boosts engagement.

Software Engineer at Brevo, Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 · 7 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1. Built high‑throughput data‑ingestion APIs in Go using Kafka + ClickHouse/BigQuery; maintaining ~90% test coverage. 2. Built orchestration system using Go & Kafka for client data migration.

Associate Software Engineer at Brevo, Jun 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1. Re‑architected a high‑volume batch processing system in Go + RabbitMQ ~75% faster, with baked‑in queue retries & error handling. 2. Owned and added optimizations for a high‑volume in‑house segmentation engine that runs flexible, dynamic queries across multiple data stores (ClickHouse + MongoDB) simultaneously.

Software Engineering Intern at Shipsy, Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mos, Gurgaon, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, University School of Information and Communication Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/kapillamba4

medium: https://medium.com/@kapillamba4

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/kp04

codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/kapil4

kapillamba4.github.io: https://kapillamba4.github.io/