Narendra Khichar
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Almabase
04.2025 - Current
- Drove cross-functional delivery across Product, QA, Design Customer Success to ship high-impact features aligned with customer and business goals.
- Established engineering standards covering code reviews and release governance to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows to enhance developer productivity, accelerate delivery timelines, and improve overall team efficiency.
- Led architecture and delivery of a high-scale auction platform processing 3M+ bids/day with real-time bidding, notifications, and reporting systems.
- Built scalable real-time infra to support peak fundraising events, ensuring high availability, low latency bidding, and seamless user experiences.
- Integrated save-card, charge automatically, and POS payment workflows via multi-gateways, including Stripe and Blackbaud Merchant Services.
- Build OTP-based authentication for unregistered users, streamlining onboarding, reducing friction, improving participation and payment conversions.
- Scaled the engineering team by hiring 8 engineers in 3 quarters while mentoring direct reports through structured growth and performance programs.
Senior Backend Developer
Almabase
03.2023 - 04.2025
- Re-architected analytical service using ClickHouse and MySQL to handle 100M+ annual touchpoints, reducing query response from 25 sec to 200ms.
- Architected scalable email workflow frameworks delivering 2M+ daily communications using async processing with Redis queue and Azure func apps.
- Improved database performance and reliability by optimizing queries, indexing strategies, and processing pipelines to ensure seamless data flow.
- Enhanced data sync frameworks between multiple data sources, enabling accurate real-time data sync and significantly improving system responsiveness
- Evaluated and implemented revenue-impacting product features, driving customer engagement, platform adoption, and measurable business growth.
- Developed and maintained core product services, libraries, and backend frameworks ensuring scalability, modularity, and long-term system reliability.
- Built a custom Django ORM-style abstraction layer for Elasticsearch, enabling seamless query execution and simplified backend integration.
- Engineered high-throughput data ingestion systems using Redis queues to pull partner data in real time, ensuring reliable and scalable processing.
Software Development Engineer
INDMoney
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Contributed to foundational platform architecture and integrated third-party trading APIs enabling secure, low-latency, and seamless trading execution.
- Designed and built in-memory data frameworks using Redis to store trade and stock data, improving retrieval speed and transaction processing efficiency.
- Architected and developed a robust order management system to store high-volume real-time trading data securely in PostgreSQL databases.
- Designed and implemented notification service delivering accurate real-time trade updates, enhancing user visibility and trading decision responsiveness.
- Developed high-performance REST APIs powering live trading dashboards and integrated them into the Django-based admin platform for monitoring.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with QA and FE teams to streamline trade execution workflows and improve platform stability and performance.
- Engineered comprehensive unit testing suites using GoMock and Ginkgo achieving near-complete code coverage and long-term service reliability.
Software Development Engineer - Intern
INDMoney
05.2021 - 03.2022
- Built Python-based analytical programs to get market indicators including momentum, trend, volume, and volatility using historical OHLC stock data
- Evaluated indicator performance across multiple time horizons and market conditions, validating accuracy and reliability for trading decision support.
- Developed machine learning–driven investment basket models derived from Nifty 50, Nifty 100, and Nifty 200 to optimize portfolio selection strategies.
Algorithmic Trading in Python - Intern
Atraxia Private Limited
06.2020 - 08.2020
- Built multi-variable time series forecasting models using LSTM networks on tick-by-tick stock market data to improve price prediction accuracy and reliability
- Developed a fully automated algorithmic trading system in Python integrating third-party brokerage APIs to enable scalable, low-latency trade execution.
Education
B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree 5Year. 2017-2022 -
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, IndiaSkills
- Programming Languages: Python,GoLang, C, SQL, HTML & CSS
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Redis cache,
- Messaging Technologies: Redis Queue, Kafka
- Cloud Platforms: Azure Services, AWS
- Frameworks: Django, Flask, Django Rest Framework, Gin, Ginkgo
- Tools: Bitbucket, Postman, Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, Datadog, Asana
- Technical mentoring, Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
Awards and achievements
- Awarded the Institute Blue (2022) and Prof. B.N. Avasthi Memorial Award by IIT Kharagpur for outstanding all-round achievements and excellence.
- Set a new Inter IIT Sports Meet record by breaking a 39-year-old milestone in the 5000m race, clocking a time of 16:06 minutes.
- Won 2 Gold and 3 Bronze medals in athletics at the Inter IIT Sports and Games General Championship, contributing significantly to institute standings.
- Awarded Best Athlete by IIT Kharagpur for securing 5 Gold and 1 Silver medal at the General Championship 2021–22 across multiple track events.
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Almabase
04.2025 - Current
Senior Backend Developer
Almabase
03.2023 - 04.2025
Software Development Engineer
INDMoney
03.2022 - 03.2023
Software Development Engineer - Intern
INDMoney
05.2021 - 03.2022
Algorithmic Trading in Python - Intern
Atraxia Private Limited
06.2020 - 08.2020
B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree 5Year. 2017-2022 -
Indian Institute of Technology