Himangshu Kakati
Software Engineer
Guwahati,AS
Summary
Backend engineer with 3.5+ years of experience in designing and building scalable systems to solve complex consumer-facing problems, including 2.5 years of specialisation in the user-search ecosystem.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Career Break
Personal Development
Guwahati
12.2024 - Current
- Developed a strict discipline for work and other essential daily activities and habits, and read a ton!
Software Engineer
PhonePe
Bangalore
08.2024 - 12.2024
- Migrated our search service to a DAG-based architecture and built configurable search intents (e.g., synonyms, categories), boosting CTR by ~14%.
- Created a framework to disable generic operations (like disabling spelling correction) of the DAG.
- Led the search suggestions project, collaborated with DS for dataset generation, handled ElasticSearch ingestion, and implemented a series of intricate post-retrieval token-based logic for ranking and highlighting, increasing the overall search CTR by ~10%.
- Developed generic Spark jobs for transforming and filtering ElasticSearch data, supporting feature extraction and training for our ranking ML pipeline.
- Separated results intelligently into product/store buckets based on query.
- Resolved complex ElasticSearch issues such as circular serviceability error.
- Efficiently resolved high-priority on-call issues.
Software Engineer
Dunzo
Bangalore
08.2022 - 08.2023
- Re-architected Dunzo-Daily search with configurable, normalised scoring.
- Designed and implemented sponsored search across 4 services, building the core ads-service, leveraging complex ElasticSearch queries.
- Built APIs for managing cross-sell and up-sell recommendation configurations, GCS integrations to upload/download files, and Argo-triggered ingestion into BigTable.
Software Engineer
KLA Tencor
Chennai
07.2021 - 08.2022
- Provided software support to Zephyr C305 tool model.
- Implemented rubber band selection feature for Agera Optics Selector sample plan.
Education
B Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
NIT Silchar
06.2021
Skills
- Languages: Java, Go, Python, C, C
- Databases: ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Aerospike, HBase
- Tools & Infra: GCP, HDFS, Opsgenie, Jenkins, Git, Coralogix, Grafana, Spinnaker, Airflow, Docker
- Math: Number Theory, Combinatorics, Probability, Calculus, Graph Theory, Game Theory, Matrices, Numerical Methods
- Computer Science: Dynamic Programming, Computational Geometry, String Algorithms, Fast Fourier Transform, Advanced Data Structures, Text Compression, Cryptography, Automata Theory
- Software Engineering: Design Patterns, SOLID Principles, Spark, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, REST, Dataflow Pipelines, Kubernetes, Kafka
- Miscellaneous: Search Ecosystem, Vector Search, Embeddings, Statistical / Machine Learning, Technical / Mathematical Documentations
Work Availability
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Timeline
Career Break
Personal Development
12.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
PhonePe
08.2024 - 12.2024
Software Engineer
Dunzo
08.2022 - 08.2023
Software Engineer
KLA Tencor
07.2021 - 08.2022
B Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
NIT Silchar
Interests
Mathematics, Programming, Violin, Cricket, Reading, Cycling, Swimming
Interests
Fiction, Mathematics, Programming, Violin, Cricket
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