Headline

Software Engineer L4 @ Frontdoor, Inc. | Team Leadership, mentorship, architecture and highly reliable microservices | polyglot engineer, full stack, startup to mid level org experience

About

Engineering Leader with 13 years of experience architecting backend microservices at large scale enterprise system and leading cross-functional teams of 15+ engineers. Delivered $15M+ in measurable business outcome — $10M in cost savings and $5M in revenue growth — by leading system optimizations and strategic high impact features delivery at Frontdoor. Expert in applying TDD/BDD methodologies, domain design patterns, and clean architecture principles to distributed systems built on Golang, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS. Committed to lead technical strategy with business goals to accelerate growth and deliver scalable, maintainable, high available, fault-tolerant software systems.

Location

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Software Engineer L4 at Frontdoor, Inc., Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Spearheaded the zero-to-one architecture and development of Frontdoor’s autonomous part-ordering platform. By designing a resilient, unified API specification and an extensible supplier selection engine, I accelerated the integration of 15 external suppliers—successfully aligning cross-functional and external engineering teams. Ultimately, this transformed a legacy manual process into a highly available, multi-tenant microservice based system. But not limited to as follows: 1. Cross team leadership in technical projects in core libraries, knowledge sharing & know how, incident response-resolution, discussions for making org wide practices & design principles. 2. Led Golang coding standards guide for org wide teams which was adopted by 5-6 teams. 3. Guard railing design patterns and coding principles for microservice based architecture. 4. Led a 15-member engineering team through full SDLC, accelerating feature delivery by 30% and contributing to multi-million dollar revenue in cost savings and in revenue growth. 5. Mentoring and guiding the teams for a better workplace in processes, technical problem solving, monitoring services, and applications. 6. Cross-working in backend and frontend to lead and complete the features of the product efficiently.

Software Engineer L3 at Frontdoor, Inc., Jun 2020 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Responsible for backend development in microservices oriented platform with TDD and BDD approaches for multi tenant products Tech Stack: Golang, GoMux, Protobuf, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle SQL, Kafka 1. Leading backend development in a microservices-oriented platform with test-driven and domain-driven approaches for multi-tenant products. 2. Build two microservices from 0 to 1 for building major components of systems and for org wide features incorporating multiple products aka tenants using Golang, MongoDB, Kafka, Oracle, Docker, Kubernetes 3. Worked as an individual contributor with mentoring a team of 5-6 people and creating efficient and collaborative individual contributors. 4. Led to minimize bugs from 160 to 20 counts with collaboration of team and bringing a process of reliable hypercare after sprint release. 5. Designed technical solutions and problem-solving strategies for directing microservices to be fault-tolerant, reliable, highly available, and cohesive. 6. Developed monitoring for services and applications by integrating and designing alerts and incidents management.

Backend Engineer at Ridecell, Apr 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Responsible for overall product development in Ridecell Engineering team with contribution involved - design, development, API automation, RCA, code reviews etc. in the backend area. Worked closely with developers & QA, product managers, customer support engineers etc.and contributed for team building as first engineer in the newly formed team. Product tech stack: Python - Django & Celery, Postgresql, redis, rabbitmq

Member Of Technical Staff at Innoplexus, Mar 2019 - Apr 2019 · 2 mos

Software Engineer at Innoplexus, Mar 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Responsible for backend development of investment product Initial Coin Offering(ICO) for unpublished data of pharma studies. Delivered PoC of such product for the client with the usage of ETH blockchain service for investment tracking and scheduling of ICO. Tech stack used: Django, MySql

Software Engineer at Vaultize, Oct 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune, • Responsible for Vaultize enterprise product with work on server and client development. Worked product building from planning to testing as feature deliverables on consecutive releases. Coding, dev testing, feature test planning and finalization, code reviews and maintaince, discussions on Kanban board etc. are work participations and contributions • Participation in product’s root cause analysis on customer issues, product enhancement, dutiful member in the product. Product technology: python, mongodb, flask, bottle, web.py, C++ • Design and build REST API for clients for DRM feature with Json Web Token authentication. • Experience and work in team collaboration tasks and scheduled quarter releases. • Contribution in in-house automation development of product. • “Employee of Quarter” recognition for April-June2017 quarter.

Project Assistant at Department of Computer Science, Pune University, 2015 - 2016 · 1 yr, Pune, Worked at university for development small projects in django, flask frameworks for API services for various internal apps. Knowledge gained in machine learning and computer vision interests.

Education

computer engineering, computer science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Public links

github: https://github.com/krishnasagar14