Asish Mahapatra

Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3) at Kickdrum

Handle

@user-c94caw

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Company

Kickdrum

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Languages

English, Hindi

Open to

SDE-2/SDE-3 Roles

About

Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience building cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and developer platforms that scale. I've worked across the stack - from modern React frontends to Spring Boot, Go, and serverless AWS backends - architecting systems that prioritize reliability, performance, and maintainability. My work has ranged from migrating legacy applications and designing real-time event pipelines to building developer tooling, Infrastructure as Code, and fine-grained authorization systems. I enjoy untangling complex technical problems, reducing latency, simplifying deployments, and automating the things engineers shouldn't have to do twice. Whether it's optimizing a critical rendering path, designing event-driven architectures, extending open-source connectors, or improving developer experience, I like leaving systems cleaner than I found them.

Experience

• Senior Software Engineer at Kickdrum
  Jul 1984 to now - Bengaluru, Karnataka
• SDE-2 at Kickdrum
  Jul 2025 to Jul 2026 - Bengaluru, Karnataka
  Real-Time Event Management Platform - Architected the platform's flagship real-time dashboard, building a low-latency event streaming pipeline using PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY, SignalR, Redis, and Server-Sent Events. - Developed a reusable Redux-based event processing framework, simplifying integration of new real-time data sources. - Engineered a custom forked Debezium MSSQL Change Tracking Connector, maintaining 100% compatibility with the existing Kafka/Flink pipeline while avoiding CDC on the primary database. - Optimized database overhead by combining Change Tracking queries on the primary database with read replica lookups, minimizing production load. Performance Management Platform - Delivered a config-driven employee development planning framework for career progression across multiple disciplines/tracks of the organisation. - Led the migration from legacy CloudFormation and manually managed infrastructure to a modular AWS CDK architecture, importing stateful resources
• SDE-1 at Kickdrum
  Jul 2024 to Jul 2025 - Bengaluru, Karnataka
  Teleco Platform - Contributed to a mission-critical telecom charging platform's polyglot codebase across Spring Boot, Go, Scala, TypeScript (AWS CDK), Python, and Flink, supporting high-throughput production systems. - Modernized legacy Java, Go, and AWS SDK versions, reducing application latency by 10%, protocol-layer latency by 5%, and deployment times by 33%. - Designed and implemented a batch latency sampling framework in Go that published CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format (EMF) metrics, providing p50, p90, and p99 latency visibility for production monitoring, optimized Lambda cold starts using SnapStart, and upgraded Flink/Kinesis streaming jobs. - Supported production operations and authored engineering runbooks covering AWS Athena, VPC Flow Logs, Network Load Balancer Access Logs, AppSync GraphQL, and AWS Glue. Performance Assessment Platform - Migrated the organization's internal performance assessment platform from an always-on architecture to a fully serverless AWS so
• SDE Intern at Kickdrum
  Jan 2024 to Jul 2024 - Bengaluru, Karnataka
  - Designed and built a full-stack, multi-tenant Hotel Booking Engine supporting multiple hotel chains with configurable room types, guest types, pricing models, multilingual support, and complex validation workflows. - Architected the platform end-to-end, addressing concurrency challenges through optimistic and pessimistic locking strategies to ensure booking consistency under high contention. - Designed, deployed, and operated the complete AWS infrastructure (using Terraform as the Infrastructure as Code framework) using services including EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, SES, SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Route 53, and Secrets Manager. - Optimized frontend and backend performance through multi-layer caching and CDN strategies, reducing request latency to sub-millisecond response times for critical application paths. - Delivered production-grade full-stack features using React, Vite
• Freelance at Freight Digitisation
  May 2023 to Jul 2023 - Remote
  Built a pixel-perfect mobile app from scratch with React Native for a freight-digitisation product serving JSW and Tata Steel logistics operations. Orchestrated Redux state with Redux Sagas, secured session data via AsyncStorage, and integrated PDF upload, viewer, and WebView functionality.

Education

• Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
  Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
  2020 to 2024
  CGPA: 8.58. Bhubaneswar, India

Skills

• TypeScript
• Go
• Java
• Python
• Scala
• SQL
• React
• Spring Boot
• AWS CDK
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• Microservices
• AWS

Links

• Website
• LinkedIn
• GitHub

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