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title: "Kritika Choudhary - Software Engineer in Pune District | Tal"
description: "Meet Kritika Choudhary, Backend Engineer | Data Engineer | Building High-Scale Financial Systems | Former SDE Intern @Amazon @DRDO | DYPCOE’2024 based in Pune District. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and claudecode."
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# Kritika Choudhary on Tal

## Headline

Backend Engineer \| Data Engineer \| Building High\-Scale Financial Systems \| Former SDE Intern @Amazon @DRDO \| DYPCOE’2024

## About

𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 \| 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 \| 𝐉𝐚𝐯𝐚 \| 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭 \| 𝐊𝐚𝐟𝐤𝐚 \| 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 \| 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 Backend & Data Engineer with 2 years building large\-scale event\-driven platforms for financial technology\. Specialized in 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡\-𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙆𝙖𝙛𝙠𝙖 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, and 𝙊𝙇𝘼𝙋 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨\. Currently at Finvu AA \(Account Aggregator\), where I've taken ownership of mission\-critical data infrastructure serving 50M\+ users and 100\+ financial partners\. I've worked enterprise\-scale projects including a complete OLAP migration that processes billions of records\. 🚀 What I'm Building at Finvu: ➤ Working on 𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗣 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 from 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 to 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 enabling real\-time analytics at scale ➤ Built 𝗞𝗮𝗳𝗸𝗮\-based event pipeline processing 𝟭𝟬𝗠\+ 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 \(𝟭,𝟱𝟬𝟬\+ 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀/𝘀𝗲𝗰\) across multiple consumer groups ➤ Designed 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 \(Bronze/Silver/Gold\) for scalable analytical workloads ➤ Reduced storage costs by 𝟱𝟬% through optimized schema design and columnar storage tuning ➤ Built monitoring pipelines with 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗮 & 𝗔𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹 powering real\-time dashboards and automated alerts ➤ Created version\-controlled 𝗗𝗕 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 with automated testing and safe schema evolution ➤ Supporting 𝟱𝟬𝗠\+ 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 and 𝟭𝟬𝟬\+ 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 with high\-availability data infrastructure 💼 Previous Experience: 🔹 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗗𝗘 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 \(Jan \- Jun 2024\) • Designed asynchronous bulk processing platform using 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗱𝗮, 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗗𝗕, 𝗦𝟯, 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 • Worked on scalable microservices for high\-volume payment workflows 🛠 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Kafka, JWT 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: ClickHouse, Cassandra, Kafka Streams, Apache Drill, ETL Pipelines, SQL Optimization 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: Cassandra, ClickHouse, DynamoDB, MongoDB 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱/𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀: AWS \(Lambda, S3, Step Functions\), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲: System Design, DSA, Caching, API Design, Design Patterns 💼 Looking to grow into Backend Engineer or Data Engineer roles at fast\-paced product companies solving complex distributed systems challenges\. 📍 Pune, Maharashtra

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

codex

cursor

claudecode

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Finvu \(Cookiejar Technologies\), Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

SDE Intern at Amazon, Jan 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Full Stack Developer at Securedsuit, Mar 2023 \- May 2023 · 3 mos, Remote

Research Intern at DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt\. of India, Oct 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 3 mos, Kalas Pune

Vice President at ACES DYPCOE, Aug 2022 \- Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer engineering, DY Patil College of Engineering, Pune

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