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Sumit Kumar

Engineering @ Gojek | Backend | Distributed Systems | Scale

Bangalore Urban

7+ years of work experience

GoTo Group
Apr 20251 yr 6 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HealthPlix
Feb 20232 yrs 3 mosApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and built the backend for the Patient App, implementing a microservices-based architecture and taking the product from 0 to 1. Migrated event tracking from Amplitude to AWS Pinpoint, reducing costs by 95%. Transitioned monitoring from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, cutting costs by 80% while improving observability. Designed a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture, increasing mobile app service revenue. Optimized SQL database schemas and queries, reducing retrieval latency from 800ms to 100ms. Built a distributed notification system using SQS & worker pools, increasing message throughput by 5x. Built a centralized search system, reducing query latency from 500ms+ to under 50ms.
Datakrew
Dec 20211 yr 2 mosJan 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built fault-tolerant IoT data pipelines for scalable data ingestion and processing. Migrated storage from PostgreSQL to CrateDB, reducing query latency by 66%. Implemented sharding and indexing strategies, significantly improving database performance. Led the development of "AI-Studio," a no-code ML workflow platform for seamless execution.
Protegrity
Jun 20192 yrs 6 mosNov 2021

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Developed distributed data pipelines, improving scalability and system performance. Built a multi-node distributed job scheduler, enhancing task orchestration and throughput. Optimized Elasticsearch indexing, increasing ingestion and search speeds by 300%. Redesigned data migration pipelines from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch, reducing migration time by 80% while ensuring zero downtime.

Sumit’s AI Stack

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Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

Oriental Institute of Science & Technology, Patel Nagar, Raisen Road, Bhopal-462021

20154 yrs2019

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Headline

Engineering @ Gojek | Backend | Distributed Systems | Scale

About

Software Engineer with ~6 years of experience in system design, scalable architectures, and high-performance backend engineering. Passionate about solving complex engineering problems, optimizing distributed systems, and pushing the limits of scale. I thrive in designing efficient, cost-optimized solutions that enhance performance and reliability.

Location

Bangalore Urban

AI stack

claude code

codex

github copilot

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at GoTo Group, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at HealthPlix, Feb 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and built the backend for the Patient App, implementing a microservices-based architecture and taking the product from 0 to 1. Migrated event tracking from Amplitude to AWS Pinpoint, reducing costs by 95%. Transitioned monitoring from New Relic to OpenTelemetry, cutting costs by 80% while improving observability. Designed a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture, increasing mobile app service revenue. Optimized SQL database schemas and queries, reducing retrieval latency from 800ms to 100ms. Built a distributed notification system using SQS & worker pools, increasing message throughput by 5x. Built a centralized search system, reducing query latency from 500ms+ to under 50ms.

Software Development Engineer at Datakrew, Dec 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built fault-tolerant IoT data pipelines for scalable data ingestion and processing. Migrated storage from PostgreSQL to CrateDB, reducing query latency by 66%. Implemented sharding and indexing strategies, significantly improving database performance. Led the development of "AI-Studio," a no-code ML workflow platform for seamless execution.

Associate Software Engineer , R&D at Protegrity, Jun 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Developed distributed data pipelines, improving scalability and system performance. Built a multi-node distributed job scheduler, enhancing task orchestration and throughput. Optimized Elasticsearch indexing, increasing ingestion and search speeds by 300%. Redesigned data migration pipelines from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch, reducing migration time by 80% while ensuring zero downtime.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Oriental Institute of Science & Technology, Patel Nagar, Raisen Road, Bhopal-462021

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