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Senior Software Engineer @ Netskope | Backend, Distributed Systems & Data Engineering (Spark/Kafka) | Building Security Platforms at Scale

About

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building backend services and data infrastructure at scale — from real-time streaming pipelines processing millions of events to the microservices powering a cloud security platform used by enterprises worldwide. At Netskope, I work across the stack: containerized Python/asyncio microservices, Spark/Kafka streaming pipelines, and on-device ML inference for threat intelligence, alongside leading cross-functional projects from scope to delivery. Previously built data platforms and analytics infrastructure at Amazon and led data engineering for a fintech startup from seed to Series A. Comfortable owning a problem end-to-end, whether that's re-architecting a system for 10x scale, building a pipeline from scratch, or shipping a GenAI feature that made it into the company's internal AI newsletter. Always exploring how AI-assisted tooling (Copilot, Claude, and friends) changes how we build software — responsibly and efficiently.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

claude

gemini

github copilot

langchain

openai

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Netskope, Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Remote, Product Scale & Backend Architecture Led a backend re-architecture to scale the product 10x — revamping Elasticsearch indexing/query paths, object-creation handling, and auth decorators across services. Built asyncio-based Python microservices powering the policy engine, dashboard metrics, and remediation services. Streaming Data Pipelines & Cost Optimization Optimized Spark/Kafka streaming pipelines relaying product events — cutting peak resource use (and COGS) from 100% to 50% during spikes and reducing Kafka lag incidents from weekly to 1-2x/year. Built a standalone device IP-freshness pipeline from scratch — a streaming job refreshing IP mappings every 10 seconds, backed by MongoDB and Redis. Reliability & Observability Partnered across backend, data, and ML teams to stabilize the product and eradicate cross-cutting bugs, building Prometheus-Grafana observability with per-tenant traffic visibility. On-Device Threat Intelligence Built a resource-efficient containerized Python service for edge threat intelligence — batching traffic in 30s windows, running internal DSLMs to generate threat inferences/remediation actions within 2 seconds across ~1,000 devices (~1,000 packets each) on ~300MB RAM. Used in Netskope's Gartner demo, Q1 2026. GenAI & Innovation Shipped a GenAI-based threat-enrichment feature for customer threat data, featured in the org's AI newsletter with positive customer feedback. Productionized a hackathon project — a tenant/environment-aware device-attribute dashboard — now used by 8-9 engineers and in 6-7 customer demos. Leadership & Internal Tooling Led 4 cross-functional projects (4-5 engineers each) end-to-end. Built internal dashboards for tenant onboarding/appliance deployment, used to onboard every tenant since launch (2 years in production).

Lead Data Engineer at Quiph, 2020 - Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Built an in-house Hadoop data layer on the AWS stack, leveraging open-source Apache technologies. This comprehensive infrastructure included a HDFS and S3 based data warehouse, Spark data pipelines, Airflow based scheduler, and an analytics framework on Tableau. It incorporated robust multi-channel alerting mechanisms, ensuring timely delivery of reports and metrics for effective monitoring and analysis.

Data Engineer at Amazon, 2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs, Managed global payment platform data metrics requests, providing support to business owners worldwide and ensuring accurate reporting of internal metrics through data visualization tools and multiple dashboards.

Software Engineer at CaaStle, 2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs, Worked on data modeling and Hadoop-based ETL development, supporting the transition to a multi-tenant data warehouse using Kimball's and Inmon's data-modeling techniques in an agile team. Built an in-house clickstream analytics solution using Google's Big Data tools, Talend-based ETL, and MySQL procedures; implemented a flexible customer-360 system and contributed to canonical size-chart mapping, mobile-app install-status analysis, and autoincrement surrogate-key generation in Hadoop ETL.

Joomla Developer at As a Freelancer, Feb 2015 - Mar 2015 · 2 mos, Developed a few Joomla based websites as freelancing projects. Major sites : 1. An e-commerce website developed for an electronics company 2. A personal blog for an NGO

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Delhi College of Engineering

Greenway Modern Senior Secondary School