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title: "Kaushik Ghosh - Software Engineer - 2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kaushik Ghosh, Senior Software Engineer | Java · Spring Boot · Microservices · Kafka · React | Transaction-critical systems — claims, payments, booking | Bengaluru / Remote (IST · EU-US overlap) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and github copilot. Explore public work..."
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# Kaushik Ghosh on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer \| Java · Spring Boot · Microservices · Kafka · React \| Transaction\-critical systems — claims, payments, booking \| Bengaluru / Remote \(IST · EU\-US overlap\)

## About

Every system I've built has had money moving through it — train tickets at RailYatri, vehicle deals at Tekion, insurance claims at Guidewire\. That taught me that in transaction systems, "mostly correct" is just a slower way of being wrong\. WHAT I DO I design and own backend services in Java and Spring Boot: REST APIs, domain workflows, and the unglamorous parts that decide whether a system survives production — idempotency, retries, partial failure, and the query that quietly gets slower every month\. The turning point was rebuilding RailYatri's booking flow under live traffic and cutting average booking time by 35%\. Latency, idempotency and failure handling stopped being engineering trivia at that point and started being revenue\. SELECTED WORK • Cut dealer\-page API latency from 712 ms to 12 ms at Tekion by replacing offset\-based pagination with cursor\-based queries and lazy loading • Shipped a real\-time Workers' Compensation verification API connecting Guidewire ClaimCenter to PolicyCenter, cutting claim processing time 20% for the ANZ insurance market • Built Elasticsearch\-backed reporting services powering real\-time dashboards on 5 KPIs — 60% faster report generation, \~25% lower response times across analytics microservices • Raised unit test coverage past 80% across Deal Compare and Deal Onboarding, with zero post\-production defects across multiple releases OUTSIDE THE DAY JOB I ship products end to end, not just services\. Meetly \(meetly\.co\.in\) is a live video conferencing and meeting\-scheduling platform I built solo — LiveKit/WebRTC for video, LiveKit Egress \+ Cloudflare R2 for recording, BullMQ \+ Redis for reminder jobs, React/Vite front end, JWT auth\. Launched on Product Hunt and running in production\. I also write system design breakdowns — Redis caching, auth vs authz, ticketing systems, order matching — for 17,000\+ engineers on LinkedIn under @kgstrivers\. STACK Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · Ruby on Rails · Node\.js / Express · React · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Elasticsearch · Docker · AWS · JUnit5 · Mockito · Cucumber · SonarQube Based in Bengaluru \(IST\), comfortable with EU/US overlap\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

github copilot

grok

openai

railway

## Work experience

Software Engineer \- 2 at Guidewire Software, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, \- Designed and shipped a real\-time Workers' Compensation policy verification API bridging ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter \(Java, Gosu, Spring Boot, REST\), cutting claim processing time 20% for the ANZ insurance market — 5\-engineer team \- Rebuilt Vulnerability, Policy Verification, Date\-of\-Injury and Time\-based Obligation workflows across PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter, improving end\-to\-end processing speed 15% \- Delivered backend \+ React changes enabling Time\-based Obligation workflows to auto\-restart on reopened claims, closing a claim\-lifecycle compliance gap \- Hardened the Vulnerability module with JUnit and Cucumber UI automation; led code reviews and mentored 2 junior engineers

Software Engineer \- 2 at Tekion Corp, Nov 2023 \- Mar 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, \- Cut dealer\-page API latency from 712 ms to 12 ms \(\~98%\) by redesigning pagination from offset\-based to cursor\-based queries with lazy loading, against tables in the 1M\-row range \- Engineered Elasticsearch\-backed reporting services powering real\-time dashboards on 5 KPIs, cutting report generation time 60% and reducing analytics microservice response times \~25% \- Owned backend services \(Java, Spring Boot\) for the DRP Sales Cloud Platform; extended Champion Details with new program types and integrated a Phase Gate Data API \- Raised unit test coverage to 80% across Deal Compare and Deal Onboarding \(JUnit5, Mockito, SonarQube\), achieving zero post\-production defects across multiple releases

Software Development Engineer \- 1 at Coding Ninjas, Feb 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 10 mos, Gurugram, \- Led end\-to\-end delivery of the Exit & Resume Leaderboard \(Ruby on Rails, JavaScript\), lifting platform engagement 40%; built the Articles & Discussions module, raising profile interactions 50% \- Redesigned the login/access flow and built an automated re\-engagement emailer for inactive users, raising user satisfaction scores 25%

Software Developer at RailYatri\.in, Sep 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Noida, \- Optimized high\-frequency booking APIs on a payment\-backed train ticketing platform \(Ruby on Rails, REST, TDD/Scrum\), reducing average booking time 35% and improving transaction success rates under live production traffic \- Shipped the Tatkal Refund Calculator and Review Page improvements, halving customer complaints; automated cancellation\-refund emails, lifting retention 15%

Android Developer at Covigo, May 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 2 mos, Jalpaiguri, Built a cross\-platform Flutter app surfacing live COVID\-19 statistics and vaccination\-centre availability, integrating the CoWIN, covid19india\.org and MoHFW REST APIs\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Cooch Behar Government Engineering College

School, Science, Jalpaiguri Zilla School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/kaushikpuka1998
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/kgstrivers
- kaushikpuka1998\.github\.io: https://kaushikpuka1998\.github\.io/portfolio/

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