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Senior Developer Consultant @ Thoughtworks | Developing Scalable Solutions

About

Backend-heavy engineer with 7+ years building distributed systems that scale. I'm currently working at Thoughtworks. I work primarily in TypeScript, Node.js, Go and AWS. Open to work in United Kingdom and Netherlands.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

obsidian

ollama

Work experience

Senior Developer Consultant at Thoughtworks, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Hybrid, • Working with the Dyson client to develop and maintain internal operational tooling for identifying counterfeit or stolen products, improving operational visibility and auditability across product workflows. • Built and maintained scalable full-stack systems using TanStack, PostgreSQL, and GCP, ensuring reliable internal tooling for Dyson’s operations team. • Collaborated cross-functionally with stakeholders to improve investigation workflows and reduce manual opera- tional effort. • Contributed to engineering quality initiatives through peer reviews, testing practices, and adherence to Thought- works engineering standards.

Software Engineer at Commenda, Aug 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Architected and developed a scalable sales tax engine in GoLang and PostgreSQL, delivering production-ready tax infrastructure within 6 months. • Designed and implemented compliance-sensitive workflows for exemption certificate management and automated tax calculations, reducing manual processing effort by 60%. • Architected distributed bulk export infrastructure capable of processing up to 1 million rows using AWS SQS-based asynchronous processing pipelines. • Established unit and integration testing frameworks for backend APIs, improving deployment confidence and production reliability. • Led backend development for bookkeeping infrastructure enabling automated reconciliation and financial record management workflows.

Software Engineer at Chisel, Sep 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Designed and maintained integrations for Azure DevOps, Jira, GitHub, and Amplitude, improving cross- platform interoperability and backend reliability. • Optimized synchronization workflows, reducing latency and improving data consistency across integrations. • Implemented API rate-limiting strategies that improved scalability by 23% and reduced service disruptions during traffic spikes.

Open Source Developer at PostHog, May 2023 - Jun 2023 · 2 mos, Remote, https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pulls/RishivikramN

Founding Engineer at Workduck, May 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Architected backend infrastructure and distributed systems supporting 10,000+ real-time users. • Designed and implemented Redis clusters on AWS, reducing database load by 40%. • Developed and deployed scalable backend services on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, supporting automatic scaling during traffic spikes. • Built observability dashboards using Grafana, reducing MTTR by 30% and improving system monitoring. • Developed authentication infrastructure using Google OAuth for both web and desktop applications. • Built REST API services enabling seamless communication between internal testing systems and external tooling integrations. • Engineered graph-based workflow visualization systems that improved user understanding of application activity flows and automated testing workflows. • Developed a Kotlin-based service worker for public notes infrastructure handling 10K+ daily requests.

Software Engineer at Odessa Technologies, Jun 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 y 10 mo, Bengaluru

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/RishivikramN

rishivikram.com: https://rishivikram.com/