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Kumar Ashutosh

Pune

Summary

Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing distributed and event-driven systems across fintech and enterprise domains. Expertise in asynchronous processing, scalable API design, and PostgreSQL optimization, with hands-on experience building resilient cloud-native services on AWS using message queues and background workers.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Talentica
Pune
01.2024 - Current

Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, SES, S3, Textract, GraphQL, WebSockets

  • Architected a modular NestJS backend for a distributed document-processing system, enabling scalable service isolation and maintainability.
  • Designed an asynchronous processing pipeline using AWS SQS and background workers for document extraction and email notifications with retry strategies and failure handling mechanisms.
  • Integrated AWS Textract for automated OCR of multi-page documents, implementing fault-tolerant, event-driven workflows.
  • Built a background export engine for long-running download jobs with real-time progress updates via WebSockets.
  • Improved API response time by ~30% by introducing indexing strategies, optimizing join queries, and denormalizing high-read tables in PostgreSQL.

Senior Software Engineer

Talentica
Pune
01.2023 - 12.2023

Tech: NestJS, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes

  • Contributed to backend development of a payroll processing system handling salary computation, compliance checks, and loan management.
  • Implemented bulk payroll ingestion workflows and optimized backend services for improved scalability.
  • Worked in a containerized, event-driven environment leveraging Kafka and Kubernetes.

Software Engineer

Talentica
Pune
02.2020 - 12.2022

Tech: Node.js, NestJS, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS Lambda, SQS

  • Designed and maintained integrations with multiple loan servicers, enabling automated loan retrieval, payment processing, and account synchronization.
  • Architected a webhook microservice using NestJS and RabbitMQ to deliver reliable real-time partner notifications.
  • Implemented an asynchronous loan data refresh pipeline using AWS Lambda and SQS, introducing controlled concurrency and improving scalability under daily refresh workloads.
  • Built proactive monitoring workflows using Datadog to detect third-party integration failures and reduce downtime. Reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) integration failures from hours to minutes and improved resolution turnaround, resulting in ~50% reduction in servicer-related downtime.

Associate

Cognizant
Chennai
08.2018 - 02.2020
  • Contributed to development of an enterprise stock management system using SAP HANA and SAP ECC.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

IIT Mandi
Himachal Pradesh
06-2018

Skills

  • Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Go (basic)
  • Backend: Nodejs, NestJS, GraphQL
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Messaging & Async: AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Cloud & Infra: AWS (SES, Textract), Kubernetes
  • Architecture: Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Asynchronous Processing

Accomplishments

Ace Achiever Award – Recognized for resolving complex scalability challenges in loan data refresh systems.

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Talentica
01.2024 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Talentica
01.2023 - 12.2023

Software Engineer

Talentica
02.2020 - 12.2022

Associate

Cognizant
08.2018 - 02.2020

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

IIT Mandi
Kumar Ashutosh