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Satyam Sammi

Satyam Sammi

Gurgaon

Summary

Experienced Engineering Manager with over 7+ years of expertise in building scalable backend systems, leading high-performance teams, and architecting robust solutions across e-commerce, insurance, and data security domains. Proficient in designing end-to-end pipelines, optimizing customer experiences, and driving significant business outcomes through technology, with a focus on microservices, cloud infrastructure, and real-time processing.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Editorialist
04.2023 - Current
  • Joined as a Lead and promoted to Engineering Manager within 9 months for taking complete ownership, mentoring a team of freshers and junior developers, and shaping their career paths.
  • Lead a team of 9, managing the product catalog and website experience.
  • Developed robust pipelines to ingest retailer catalogs with sub-30-minute latency for real-time website updates.
  • Architected the company’s transition from SEO to marketplace SEM.
  • Built the checkout experience from scratch, generating $2M in GMV and $120K in commission profit per month, with a ~35% return rate.
  • Designed a multi-tenant system for seamless integration with third-party checkout vendors such as Bonsai and Violet.
  • Own paid listing ads pipelines for Google, Facebook, Pinterest, and Klaviyo, updating a 4M product catalog every 4 hours.
  • Solved complex catalog issues like duplicate products, brand normalization, and color/size standardization.
  • Introduced Spark batch technologies, set up Databricks, and productionized the batch job process to improve catalog quality.
  • Shared experience in real-time monitoring, log pipelines, database updates, and EC2 to ECS migration.
  • Tech Stack: Java Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Storm, PySpark, Databricks, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Cloudflare, AWS Services.

Senior Software Engineer

Zomato
02.2022 - 01.2024

Locations/Serviceability Team

  • Led a team of 7 (3 backend, 2 front-end, 2 analysts) to optimize location detection and serviceability for restaurants.
  • Delivered A/B features on the homepage and map screen, enhancing UX and improving user confidence in address/location inputs, leading to 20K order growth.
  • Identified and eliminated redundant Google API calls, saving $12K/month.
  • Owned and scaled the location service to handle 4M requests per minute, seamlessly managing peak traffic (~2.8M RPM on New Year).
  • Built ETLs to improve address pin-location accuracy using past orders, reducing customer delivery time.
  • Migrated from a monolithic architecture to microservices using BFF and RPC patterns.
  • Tech Stack: Golang, PHP, Python, gRPC, Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL, Kafka, SQS, ECS, AWS App Config, Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty.

SDE - II

Zomato
12.2020 - 02.2022

Post-Order Experience Team

  • Led the consumer post-order experience team, managing order tracking screens and API optimizations.
  • Built a scalable order state machine handling 2.2M orders/day, reducing support-required orders from 10% to 7%.
  • Spearheaded architecture and product development for features like add-to-order and change address functionality, generating 10K additional orders/day.
  • Optimized API latency and response time, improving app performance.
  • Tech Stack: PHP, Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL, gRPC, MQTT.

SDE - II

Acko General Insurance
04.2020 - 12.2020
  • Designed a cloud-based microservices platform for motor claims, reducing TAT by 20% and claims cost by 10-20%.
  • Led the architecture and integration of a third-party service for asynchronous motor claims workflows.
  • Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Zuul API Gateway.

Software Engineer

Acko General Insurance
06.2019 - 04.2020
  • Owned mobile claims workflow, reducing TAT from 12 days to 2 days with a 9.8/10 customer rating.
  • Integrated AI-based damage detection, improving claims processing.
  • Tech Stack: Python (Django), Golang, Rust, Spring Boot.

Software Engineer

Informatica
07.2017 - 05.2019
  • Worked on Data Security (Dynamic Data Masking) for database access control.
  • Led SSL support and protocol-level integration for cloud databases.
  • Tech Stack: Java, SQL Parsers, Azure, Kerberos, SSL.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science -

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
06.2017

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Editorialist
04.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Zomato
02.2022 - 01.2024

SDE - II

Zomato
12.2020 - 02.2022

SDE - II

Acko General Insurance
04.2020 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

Acko General Insurance
06.2019 - 04.2020

Software Engineer

Informatica
07.2017 - 05.2019

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science -

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Satyam Sammi