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title: "Vikrant Kumar - Software Engineer in Greater Delhi Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Vikrant Kumar, SDE Intern @ Engati | Senior at National Institute Of Technology Karnataka ,Surathkal | NITK’26 | CSE based in Greater Delhi Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude."
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# Vikrant Kumar on Tal

## Headline

SDE Intern @ Engati \| Senior at National Institute Of Technology Karnataka ,Surathkal \| NITK’26 \| CSE

## About

Currently a Software Engineer at Engati, contributing to the development of scalable backend systems\. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, and C/C\+\+ with a strong academic foundation in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Karnataka, where graduation is anticipated in June 2026\. Leveraging a problem\-solving mindset and technical expertise in backend development and REST APIs to support impactful projects\. Motivated to explore challenges in building efficient and reliable software systems that address real\-world scalability and performance demands\.

## Location

Greater Delhi Area

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Engati, Jan 2026 \- Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Redesigned the Meta WhatsApp Cloud API messaging pipeline using Apache Storm and Kafka, scaling bolt parallelism 5× and moving blocking HTTP delivery to asynchronous processing — achieving 3× higher throughput, 40% lower P99 latency, and reliable processing of 200K\+ daily messages\. • Architected and implemented a provider\-agnostic WhatsApp Template API supporting Meta Cloud API and 360Dialog, with provider\-aware routing, live template retrieval, response normalization, and cursor\-to\-numeric pagination while maintaining backward compatibility\. • Built an end\-to\-end Instagram comment\-to\-AI\-agent orchestration workflow across 8 microservices and 6\+ integration points, standardizing Kafka contracts and reusable trigger interfaces\. • Engineered configurable handling for unsupported WhatsApp messages, enabling no\-response, custom replies, and bot\-flow triggers with Redis\-backed cache invalidation and platform\-specific configuration\. • Implemented scalable broadcast retry handling using RabbitMQ DLQs, delayed retry queues, routing\-key interval buckets, and Redis idempotency locks to prevent duplicate retry waves\. Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Storm, Microservices, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes

Full Stack Developer Intern at AlienHouse Networks, May 2025 \- Jul 2025 · 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Executive member at IET NITK, Jan 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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