Headline

Software Engineer 2 @Arctic Wolf | Building Scalable Distributed Systems with Java & Spring Boot | Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS | System Design | DSA & Competitive Programming | Ex - @Acko, @Zeta

About

I enjoy building backend systems that solve real problems at scale. Over the last 3 years, I’ve worked on high-throughput backend platforms and scalable services at Acko and Zeta — working across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, observability, and performance optimization. I’ve built systems involving Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, and Java/Spring Boot, and I genuinely enjoy digging into system design, debugging production issues, and optimizing reliability. I also spend a lot of time solving DSA problems and competitive programming challenges (2100+ problems solved across platforms). Lately, I’ve also been exploring AI engineering — working with RAG pipelines, LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, and AI agents. What I like most about backend engineering is the mix of problem solving and impact — building things that are efficient, scalable, and actually useful. I’m currently open to backend engineering opportunities where I can work on challenging systems, learn from strong teams, and contribute meaningfully. Feel free to connect or reach out.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

cursor

claudecode

Work experience

Software Engineer II at Arctic Wolf, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru

Software Engineer at Acko, Aug 2024 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, • Partnered with Finance and Business stakeholders to design a pricing validation service, ensuring ~99% accuracy and reducing manual cross-team verification effort. • Led end-to-end development of the MWPA feature, driving adoption across ~30% of existing and ~40% of new policies. • Built an automated underwriter assignment system using round-robin logic with Redis, improving team efficiency by 30–40%. • Optimized KYC and income verification workflows, reducing customer turnaround time from 2–3 days to 3–4 hours. • Managed the “Straight to Life” policy flow, contributing to ~20% of daily policy issuances.

Software Engineer at Zeta, Nov 2023 - Aug 2024 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, • Developed Heracles, a high-throughput proxy gateway leveraging Kong, implementing JWT-based authentication and request transformation; drove cross-team adoption across ~60% of services, improving request standardization and reducing payload overhead. • Active contributor to technical design documents (RFCs) and conducted code reviews for peers to ensure high standards of system reliability and maintainability. • Worked on backend system to capture, store, and replay API request/response data using Amazon S3, enabling automated regression validation and reducing production 4XX, 5XX failure rates to 5–10%. • Designed and implemented scalable data validation services to assert correctness of deployed resources, reducing manual errors by 40–45% and improving overall system reliability. • Improved a tool for system observability and performance by implementing event-driven resource tracking (Kubernetes informers), reducing latency by ~4 seconds.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, cse, Chitkara University

Public links

github: https://github.com/Manoj13-coder