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Naveen Kumar

Software Engineer at Tekion | Ex-Porter | IIIT-A’23

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Tekion Corp
Jul 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Porter
Apr 20254 mosJul 2025

Porter
Jul 20231 yr 9 mosMar 2025

- Built and scaled the Porter Prime Program across 10+ cities, utilizing Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Appsmith & PostgreSQL. Achieved a 1.5% gross margin increase, directly contributing to over around 30 million INR (3 Cr+) in incremental revenue. Ensured seamless program integration with Trucks and 2W teams. - Spearheaded the implementation of a scalable events data pipeline using Pub/Sub for high-throughput messaging, Apache Kafka for reliable event aggregation, Protobuf for efficient serialization, and Snowflake as the data store. This enabled near real-time analytics and data-driven decision-making for a 50% improvement in driver onboarding funnel conversion rates. - Developed the Engagement microservice from scratch, developing RESTful APIs, Youtube Data API, user management, and asynchronous jobs processing using Kotlin, Ktor, AWS ECS, and SQS.. - Enhanced API performance by implementing Redis caching for frequently accessed REST endpoints and optimizing long-running database queries, resulting in a 6x reduction in p99 latency. - Ensured system uptime exceeding 99.5% through participation in on-call rotations, war-room incidents, and routine BAU tasks. Implemented critical non-functional improvements, including error rate reduction, latency optimization, alarm rationalization, and memory/thread management, to enhance system stability and reliability. - Engineered and automated the PartnerApp NoticeBoard feature using Appsmith, AWS S3 achieving banners with CTR exceeding 30% - Initiated an improvement in Platform microservice quality by spearheading the development of JUnit and Mockk-based test suites, achieving over 80% test coverage.
Indian Institute Of Information Technology
Aug 20211 yr 11 mosJun 2023

Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
Jan 20192 mosFeb 2019

Delhi

DRDO is the R&D wing of Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, with a vision to empower India with cutting-edge defence technologies. DRDO was formed in 1958. Today, DRDO is a network of more than 50 laboratories which are deeply engaged in developing defence technologies covering various disciplines.  My Role ?  I worked in SAG (Scientific Analysis Group) Lab working in the area of cryptology and information security. I was engaged in the project that required implementation of Machine Learning models on various ciphers to check their strength and possibility of breach. 
GitHub
@Naveen1023

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Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

M.Tech, Information Technology

Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

20212 yrs2023
Himachal Pradesh University

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

Himachal Pradesh University

20164 yrs2020

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Headline

Software Engineer at Tekion | Ex-Porter | IIIT-A’23

About

Experienced Backend Developer with almost 3 years in designing scalable backend systems Hands-on exp. in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS/GCP, Redis, Kafka, Elastic search, microservices arch. , distributed Systems, having Masters degree from IIIT Allahabad with strong problem-solving skills. Passionate about building robust backend solutions for impactful applications.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Development Engineer 2 at Porter, Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos

Software Development Engineer at Porter, Jul 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, - Built and scaled the Porter Prime Program across 10+ cities, utilizing Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Appsmith & PostgreSQL. Achieved a 1.5% gross margin increase, directly contributing to over around 30 million INR (3 Cr+) in incremental revenue. Ensured seamless program integration with Trucks and 2W teams. - Spearheaded the implementation of a scalable events data pipeline using Pub/Sub for high-throughput messaging, Apache Kafka for reliable event aggregation, Protobuf for efficient serialization, and Snowflake as the data store. This enabled near real-time analytics and data-driven decision-making for a 50% improvement in driver onboarding funnel conversion rates. - Developed the Engagement microservice from scratch, developing RESTful APIs, Youtube Data API, user management, and asynchronous jobs processing using Kotlin, Ktor, AWS ECS, and SQS.. - Enhanced API performance by implementing Redis caching for frequently accessed REST endpoints and optimizing long-running database queries, resulting in a 6x reduction in p99 latency. - Ensured system uptime exceeding 99.5% through participation in on-call rotations, war-room incidents, and routine BAU tasks. Implemented critical non-functional improvements, including error rate reduction, latency optimization, alarm rationalization, and memory/thread management, to enhance system stability and reliability. - Engineered and automated the PartnerApp NoticeBoard feature using Appsmith, AWS S3 achieving banners with CTR exceeding 30% - Initiated an improvement in Platform microservice quality by spearheading the development of JUnit and Mockk-based test suites, achieving over 80% test coverage.

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute Of Information Technology, Aug 2021 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Research Intern at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Jan 2019 - Feb 2019 · 2 mos, Delhi, DRDO is the R&D wing of Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, with a vision to empower India with cutting-edge defence technologies. DRDO was formed in 1958. Today, DRDO is a network of more than 50 laboratories which are deeply engaged in developing defence technologies covering various disciplines. My Role ? I worked in SAG (Scientific Analysis Group) Lab working in the area of cryptology and information security. I was engaged in the project that required implementation of Machine Learning models on various ciphers to check their strength and possibility of breach.

Education

M.Tech, Information Technology, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh University

Public links

github: https://github.com/Naveen1023