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title: "Sumit Kumar - Senior Software Engineer in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
description: "Meet Sumit Kumar, Engineering @ Gojek | Backend | Distributed Systems | Scale based in Bangalore Urban. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and github copilot."
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# Sumit Kumar on Tal

## 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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