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title: "Manoj Kumar - Software Engineer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manoj Kumar, 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 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and claudecode. Explore public..."
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# Manoj Kumar on Tal

## 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

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