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title: "Kapil Lamba - SDE III in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kapil Lamba, SDE III @ Expedia | Ex-Target, Flipkart | ACM ICPC 2017-19 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github, medium, and leetcode."
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# Kapil Lamba on Tal

## Headline

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/

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