Shantam S.

I am a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in designing and developing complex software systems. With a proven track record of successfully leading and delivering projects, I am confident in my ability to meet clients' expectations and provide high-quality solutions. Strengths and Skills: Proficient in Python and Java, with expertise in Django, Flask, and Apache Flink frameworks. Experienced in designing database schemas and working with various databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and InfluxDB. Skilled in microservices architecture, gRPC, and RESTful API development. Extensive knowledge of cloud technologies, including AWS services such as AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, and Docker for containerization. Strong problem-solving abilities, with expertise in optimizing performance and improving scalability. Familiarity with Linux systems, Git version control, and agile development methodologies. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Projects and Accomplishments: Led the redesign of a platform's activity feed, implementing a fault-tolerant system using MongoDB and DynamoDB for data storage and gRPC microservices in Python. Successfully built an account dashboard, optimizing performance by utilizing indexing techniques for faster response times. Designed and implemented a proxy cost usage dashboard, enabling efficient tracking of bandwidth costs for containerized systems. Developed a notification system using MySQL, gRPC, Apache Flink, and AWS Kinesis, ensuring fault-tolerant, exactly-once event processing for timely delivery of notifications. Created data pipelines for aggregating and storing metrics data, utilizing AWS Kinesis for streaming and InfluxDB for time series storage. Contributed to a proof-of-concept project aimed at caching website data for crawlers, reducing data usage.