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title: "Kritip Chakrabarti - SDE 2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Kritip Chakrabarti on Tal

## Headline

SDE 2 @Porter

## About

SDE 2 with 5\+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems at Porter\. I specialize in building high\-throughput services across Java 17, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Ktor, Kafka, Redis, Postgresql, MongoDB, and OpenSearch — with production experience on both AWS and Azure\. My work spans the full backend lifecycle: from low\-level system design and database optimization to cross\-team architecture and mentoring\. On the AI side, I've built a production RAG pipeline using vector embeddings on OpenSearch to enable semantic search across thousands of historical campaigns, integrated with LLMs \(GPT\) for automated content generation \(using GPT 4\.1 and Nano Banana 3 pro\) — bringing AI\-native capabilities into a core product feature\. Some of the impact I'm proud of: • Built a real\-time RocksDB\-based inaction tracking engine thats handles 20 Billion events per day • Saved $600K/year in infrastructure costs through automated segment archival across 4M\+ segments • Built a Custom List pipeline scaling to 50M\+ profiles, directly enabling a $5M enterprise deal • Designed an Engagement Dependency Framework driving $2M in upgrades within a single month • Delivered an ML\-powered audience prediction system improving campaign ROI by 50% for enterprise customers Skills: • Retrieval\-Augmented Generation \(RAG\) • Vector Embeddings • OpenSearch / Elasticsearch • LLM Integration • Semantic Search • AI Engineering • Distributed Systems • System Design • Java • Spring Boot • Microservices • Kafka • Redis • MongoDB • AWS • Azure • Docker • RocksDB • Grafana • Kibana / Opensearch Dashboard

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

SDE 2 at Porter, Jun 2026 \- Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, \- Contributed to the driver onboarding and lifecycle management platform using using Kafka\-based event\-driven pipelines, handling state transitions across driver registration, document verification, and activation stages \- Implementing idempotent consumers with Dead Letter Queue handling to reliably process user request events with real\-time status propagation across downstream services

Senior Backend Engineer at CleverTap, Jul 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 1 yr, Hybrid, ◉ Revenue Impact: Led initiatives generating $7M\+ in business value — $2M from enterprise upgrades through Segment Builder 2\.0 and $5M via cloud\-agnostic Custom List pipeline, with additional revenue from AI\-powered campaign tooling ◉ AI & RAG Engineering: Spearheaded CleverTap's first AI initiative — built a production RAG pipeline using vector embeddings on OpenSearch integrated with LLMs \(GPT\) for automated content generation, and contributed to Propensity Score Modeling feature selection achieving 50% prediction accuracy improvement ◉ Distributed Systems at Scale: Architected a real\-time inaction qualification engine using RocksDB, Kafka, and Protobuf, enabling event property\-based filtering previously unsupported and reducing EventStore query load by 50% ◉ Cost Optimization: Reduced infrastructure costs by $600K/year and processing time by 60% via automated segment archival with zero\-downtime reactivation across 100,000\+ segments, backed by Redis caching for high\-frequency state lookups ◉ Custom Audience Segments: Built a cloud\-agnostic Custom List pipeline using AWS S3/Batch and Azure Blob/Batch with distributed sharding, processing 50M\+ profiles for precise enterprise audience targeting ◉ Cross\-Team Architecture: Led Engagement Dependency Framework using Guice DI, building the Segmentation module from scratch for safe dependency management across campaigns and journeys ◉ Engineering Excellence: Mentored engineers and recognized with the Collaboration and Team Spirit Award

Backend Engineer at CleverTap, Jan 2022 \- Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Hybrid, ◉ System Architecture: Designed and owned microservices handling 100M\+ REST API requests using MongoDB, reducing system latency by 70% — including a dependency resolution engine using acyclic graph algorithms to safely manage relationships across campaigns, journeys, and segments at scale ◉ Security Engineering: Hardened production infrastructure by integrating AWS Secrets Manager achieving 100% secret\-free codebase\. Implemented Adaptive MFA using Auth0 and Google Authenticator, and proactively resolved security vulnerabilities flagged by Snyk and Audacix across multiple services ◉ Product Ownership: Independently designed and shipped the Notification Panel end\-to\-end — from architecture to production — reducing customer\-facing notification spam by 96%, and owned the Auth0\-based dashboard login flow with SSO and password authentication support\. Maintained 24/7 on\-call support, built internal debugging tools with Splunk for observability\.

Software Engineer Intern at FICO, Jun 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◉ Full\-Stack Development: Acquired OutSystems proficiency and independently developed REST API\-based License Generation Tool, automating manual processes for credit bureau integrations and reducing processing time\. Enhanced Data Acquisition Module through SOAP API modifications and comprehensive SOAP UI testing\. ◉ Recognition: Awarded 2 FICO Spot Awards in a span of 6 months for handling critical production issues and delivering solutions within tight deadlines\.

Android Developer at GDSC KIIT, Jun 2019 \- May 2021 · 2 yrs, Bhubaneshwar, ◉ Community Leadership: Hosted multiple webinars and hackathons, fostering a collaborative development environment and knowledge sharing within the technical community ◉ Project Development: Led cross\-functional teams building innovative projects using Android Studio, Firebase, SQL, Java, and Git/GitHub, mentoring peers on full\-stack mobile development best practices

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

Schooling, Science, Holy cross school

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