Candidate profile
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & AI
Description
Software engineer with approximately 3 years of experience at Flipkart (Walmart), specializing in building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems for high-throughput production workloads. A strong generalist engineer capable of owning problems end-to-end, with expertise across Backend/Distributed Systems, Applied AI/ML (Agentic Systems, RAG), Big Data/Data Engineering, and Infrastructure Optimization. Key achievements include leading the revamp of Flipkart’s Offers platform (reducing latency by 75%, increasing opt-ins by 50%), building a Rewards System from scratch (delivering ~400% ROI), designing a Seller Penalization system (reducing product returns by 10%), optimizing large MySQL clusters (significant reductions in disk usage, CPU, and latency), and building price recommendation pipelines (165% adoption growth). Also experienced in handling real production challenges such as database scaling, data-center migrations, and data recovery with zero loss. Interested in Backend Software Engineering or AI Engineering roles.