Headline

SDE II @Wayfair | Backend | CSE @NIT Rourkela ’22 | Ex - ZEE5 OTT

About

I'm a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Core stack: 🔹 Java, Spring Boot, Python, FastAPI, NodeJS, Microservices, REST APIs, Graphql 🔹 Data Systems: Postgres, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Kafka 🔹 Cloud & Analytics: GCP, AWS, BigQuery, MixPanel 🔹 Platform & Observability: Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Splunk 🔹 AI tools: Cursor, Claude code, Devin, Glean, MCPs Professional Background: 🔹 Role: Software Engineer II 🔹 Company: Wayfair 🔹 Teams: Product Grouping Past Experiences: 🔹 Role: SDE 🔹 Company: Zee Tech & Innovation (OTT) 🔹 Teams: Engagement & Loyalty + Core Services, Linear What I Do: 🔹 Designing and building distributed backend systems for high traffic applications 🔹 Implementing search, caching, streaming, and analytics pipelines 🔹 Improving system performance, reliability, and system observability 🔹 Data modeling, API design, backend architecture, infrastructure optimisations 🔹Collaborating with product and business Why I Love What I Do: The dynamic nature of software development keeps me engaged. Every day, I learn something new, whether it's a coding technique, a design pattern, or a better way to optimize performance. I thrive on continuous improvement and enjoy sharing along the way. I believe in being a strong generalist with the ability to delve deeply into technical skills as required. Always looking for ways to improve my technical skills to solve business problems.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

langchain

langgraph

Devin

Work experience

Software Engineer II at Wayfair, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Building systems that make wayfair suppliers' flows simpler and efficient!

SDE 1 at ZEE - Technology & Innovation, Nov 2023 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, 🔹 Handled designing and developing multiple genAI internal tools end to end boosting revenue - Youtube GenAI publishing tool, Song analyser and Song popularity prediction tool, Feedback Analyser. - Microservices architecture, GenAI, FastAPI, Spring Boot, GCS, Gemini/ Vertx.AI, Kafka, Mongo, Postgres 🔹 Led the migration of Games and Feedback services from AWS to GCP, facilitating a smooth cloud transition with zero downtime. 🔹 Worked on services which boost user engagement - Polling Service, Feedback Service, Dynamic Forms. - Server sent events (SSE), NodeJS, Spring Boot, Postgres, Redis, Mongo, Kafka, GCS, REST APIs 🔹 Designed and developed multiple features for Games tab. - NodeJS, Mongo, Redis, Kafka, CMS, S3/ GCS

Associate Software Development Engineer at ZEE - Technology & Innovation, Jul 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 🔹 Developed and maintained the Playback License Microservice, ensuring efficient and reliable license management for media playback. 🔹 Leveraged Kafka for real-time CMS updates of ILT20 key moments, enabling automatic collection metadata updates and triggering SSE events, resulting in an 80% reduction in direct API polling and significantly improving content delivery speed. 🔹 Developed and executed a backend service to facilitate HTML5 games from Atterolabs and Gamezop, ensuring seamless integration with Zee CMS by collaborating closely with external vendors and cross-functional teams.

Member at Code Red - NIT Rourkela, Oct 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Raurkela, Odisha, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION, ANDHRA PRADESH, Sri Chaitanya College of Education

Public links

github: https://github.com/pranaybattu

codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/pranay_battu