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Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proven track record delivering measurable cloud cost savings, leading OpenSearch migrations to serverless, and shipping end-to-end backend platform workstreams across CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, and observability—while growing depth in Go and Python through open-source projects.…Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proven track record delivering measurable cloud cost savings, leading OpenSearch migrations to serverless, and shipping end-to-end backend platform workstreams across CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, and observability—while growing depth in Go and Python through open-source projects.

SHIVA ROOPAN D

Back-End Developer, Software Engineer, DevOps Developer, +2

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Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proven track record delivering measurable cloud cost savings, leading OpenSearch migrations to serverless, and shipping end-to-end backend platform workstreams across CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, and observability—while growing depth in Go and Python through open-source projects.…Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proven track record delivering measurable cloud cost savings, leading OpenSearch migrations to serverless, and shipping end-to-end backend platform workstreams across CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, and observability—while growing depth in Go and Python through open-source projects.

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Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems and AWS infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Proven track record delivering measurable cloud cost savings, leading OpenSearch migrations to serverless, and shipping end-to-end backend platform workstreams across CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, and observability—while growing depth in Go and Python through open-source projects.

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Software Engineer II at Nike

July 1, 2025 - Present

Led platform and backend workstreams on AWS, including a metric-driven $370K+ annualised AWS savings initiative by right-sizing Amazon RDS (8XL to XL) and rolling out an optimisation plan across the AWS account. Owned an end-to-end OpenSearch Managed-to-Serverless (AOSS) migration: ingestion pipelines, schema and indexing design, alerting, and decommissioning the legacy cluster. Acted as single engineer of record for repository structure, CI/CD, and the OpenSearch Serverless foundation powering Quick Search. Designed and shipped a quote-management backend from scratch using NestJS services, API versioning, Jenkins pipelines, an authenticator Lambda, and AWS WAF. Modernised infrastructure via EKS upgrades, NGINX-to-ALB migration, Aurora Serverless adoption, Terraform pipelines, and high-risk vulnerability remediation.

Software Engineer (SDE-III) at Anko

October 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025

Architected and maintained Node.js microservices for core business workflows to improve scalability and reduce coupling. Built event-driven integrations by processing high-volume Kafka streams to enable reliable asynchronous communication between services. Developed real-time React applications using WebSockets and RTK Query and integrated Microsoft Graph APIs with Microsoft 365 services. Deployed cloud-native workloads across AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, SQS, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and ECS) with secure configuration management.

Associate Software Engineer at Anko

October 1, 2021 - October 1, 2023

Built REST APIs for a Node.js microservice architecture enabling modular, independently deployable services. Developed responsive React components and evolved MongoDB/DocumentDB schemas while maintaining data integrity.

Associate Marketing Engineer at Verticurl

December 1, 2020 - September 30, 2021

Developed and executed end-to-end digital-marketing automation workflows for multinational clients.