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SAKSHAM GAIROLA

Travel Junky
Delhi NCR,DL

Summary

Backend-leading full-stack engineer with 2.9 years of experience, currently the founding and lead engineer at a travel-tech company. Own the entire production stack — AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, PostgreSQL schema design, and an internal platform in daily production use. Requested and onboarded a second engineer, who I lead day to day.

Software development professional prepared for high-impact roles within technology-driven environments. Extensive background in designing and optimizing software solutions, with commitment to delivering high-quality results. Known for effective teamwork and adaptability, with key skills in coding and system architecture.

5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer (Founding Engineer)

1 Year 11 Months
Travel Junky | Delhi NCR | 11.2024 - Current
  • First and only engineer; built the entire technical stack from zero. Requested and onboarded a second engineer; led him day to day, owning task breakdown, code review and delivery.
  • Designed and shipped sales module of internal operations platform, live since July 2025, processing ~2,500 itineraries per month. Currently building out the operations module.
  • Migrated the production itinerary system from MongoDB to PostgreSQL — modeled a relational schema from unstructured documents and backfilled 8,000+ live records with no data loss or downtime.
  • Diagnosed rise in AWS spend; traced to EC2 traffic bypassing CloudFront. Routed PDF pipeline through CloudFront, added S3 Gateway VPC Endpoint, and removed idle public IPv4 allocations, reducing AWS costs by ~35%.
  • Designed and shipped the sales module of an internal operations platform, live since July 2025 and handling ~2,500 itineraries per month. Currently building out the operations module.
  • Built AWS Bedrock document-extraction pipeline to parse unstructured booking documents into structured records, eliminating manual data entry in intake workflow.
  • Replaced manual FTP releases with GitHub Actions CI/CD across staging and production.
  • Deployed a serverless image optimisation pipeline on AWS Lambda, reducing image payload across the content delivery path.

Software Developer Trainee

4 Months
Infoicon Technologies | Noida | 07.2024 - 11.2024
  • Built client-facing features in Laravel for multiple projects, aligning closely with client requirements to enhance user experience.
  • Developed and maintained custom WordPress plugins and Shopify app integrations for live client stores.
  • Managed workload while completing final semester of MCA program.
  • Stack: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, WordPress, Shopify

Software Developer Intern

3 Months
Recur Club (Fintech) | Delhi NCR | 11.2023 - 02.2024
  • Built document classification service (Spring Boot + MongoDB) that automated tagging for thousands of financial documents, enhancing retrieval accuracy.
  • Developed Key Facts Statement generation platform that efficiently handled customer orders at scale, improving response times.
  • Built Python ETL pipelines on AWS Lambda to transfer data from S3 into MySQL, streamlining reporting process by eliminating manual migration.
  • Stack: Spring Boot, Java, Python, AWS (Lambda, S3, SQS, EC2, RDS), MongoDB, MySQL

Support Engineer (L1)

5 Months
Wipro | Delhi NCR | 09.2021 - 02.2022
  • Debugged backend issues by analysing application logs, API responses, and MySQL/MongoDB queries to resolve user-impacting problems.
  • Triaged 100+ tickets monthly, maintaining 95% SLA compliance to ensure timely resolution.
  • Diagnosed hardware, software, and network issues using ticketing workflows and remote support tools.
  • Resolved incidents in ServiceNow while maintaining accurate documentation and SLA compliance.
  • Configured user accounts, email access, and Active Directory permissions for end users.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Indira Gandhi National Open University | New Delhi, India | 12-2024

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies - Technical Ca | New Delhi | 07-2021

GPA: 8.6/10

Skills

Backend: Node.js
Express.js
Spring Boot
REST API design
Frontend: React
Languages: JavaScript
TypeScript
Java
Python
SQL
AWS services
Infrastructure: GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Cloudflare
Linux
Microservices Architecture
Database design
Microservices architecture
Object-oriented programming
SQL
Javascript

Timeline

Software Engineer (Founding Engineer)
Travel Junky
11.2024 - Current
Software Developer Trainee
Infoicon Technologies
07.2024 - 11.2024
Software Developer Intern
Recur Club (Fintech)
11.2023 - 02.2024
Support Engineer (L1)
Wipro
09.2021 - 02.2022
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Master of Computer Applications from Computer Science
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies - Technical Ca
Bachelor of Computer Applications from Computer Science

Personal Information

Title: Software Engineer — Backend & Full-Stack | Node.js TypeScript React AWS
SAKSHAM GAIROLA