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Gurjot S.

Senior Software Engineer

Waterloo, Canada

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About Me

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of software development experience; designing, implementing, and operating different web applications, APIs and web services on projects using modern technologies, development techniques and best practices. I work in an Agile environment; striving to improve solutions, systems and culture, working on challenges without being afraid to suggest and deliver solutions.

Python 6 years Flask 6 years Django 6 years Go 4 years React.js 5 years Typescript 4 years Electron.JS 3 years Node.js 5 years HTML 6 years C++ 4 years C 4 years AWS 6 years GCP 6 years Docker 4 years Kubernetes 4 years Elastic Search 4 years Memcached 6 years Redis 6 years Rust 3 years Kafka 4 years Big Table 5 years Big Query 6 years Apache Spark 4 years Apache Flink 4 years PostgreSQL 6 years MongoDB 5 years CassandraDB 5 years MySQL 6 years

Work history

UpStack

Senior Software Engineer

2021 - Present (3 years)

Remote

Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industry.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Python Flask Django AWS GCP Go Elastic Search Redis Memcached Node.js Rust PostgreSQL MongoDB Apache Cassandra MySQL Big Table Big Query Kafka Spark Apache Flink React.js C++C Electron.JS Docker Kubernetes HTML Typescript

Game.tv

Senior Software Engineer

2019 - 2020 (1 year)

India

Designed and architected the payments microservice solution for buying virtual coins on the platform.
Built and optimized a community feed solution for users of the platform; integrating ads from vendors in the feed and handling deployments.
Led a team to build a discord bot in Node.js to host tournaments utilizing different containers and engines to manage and scale services; leading to a 25% increase in user base.

Rest API Python Django MongoDB Docker ECS Kubernetes React.js Node.js Redis DynamoDB PostgreSQL DockerHub Google Kubernetes Engine Elastic Search GCP

BlueStacks

Backend Engineer

2016 - 2019 (3 years)

Gurgaon, India

Redesigned and built a microservice solution to handle premium model subscriptions on Bluestacks' platform with a 32%+ increase in premium subscriptions.
Developed an affiliated ad network microservice to integrate various affiliate partner APIs with the platform; showing users relevant ads.
Designed and implemented a reward distribution platform based on user gameplay, app usage time and other metrics for Bluestacks.

Python Django RabbitMQ React.js Rest API DynamoDB Docker ECS MongoDB Firebase

Portfolio

Backend Engineer - Distributed affiliate ad network

Developed and implemented a distributed ad ingestion framework solution on Bluestack's platform; ingesting streaming data from multiple ad network sources and recommending relevant ads to users based on conversion probability and user preference.

Senior Software Engineer - Payments Service

Worked on a scalable payments microservice solution that integrated different payment gateways into the client's gaming platform and sent analytical data to the data warehouse.

Senior Software Engineer - Tournaments Engine

Built and deployed an innovative discord bot called Tourney in Node.js for hosting tournaments. Led a team of 3 developers on the project and developed the scalable backend microservice for generating bots for the Discord platform.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

2012 - 2016 (4 years)