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Asish
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Software engineer who ships. I build fast, weird, well-made things for living — and I clearly enjoy it a little too much.

currentlySDE-2 @ Kickdrum

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I make software that works.

I'm a full-stack engineer who treats "how it feels" as a real requirement, not a nice-to-have. I like the unglamorous parts — the migration that doesn't lose data, the API that returns a sensible error and is fast, the deploy that doesn't page anyone at 3am — and I like the flashy parts too. Yes, this whole page is kinda flashy.

Give me an ambiguous problem and a blank repo and I'm genuinely happy. I ship, I measure and correct AI slop, I delete the code that didn't earn its keep, and I leave things faster and friendlier than I found them.

  • Fuel source

    Coffee, mostly. Occasionally Coke Zero.

  • Favorite bug

    The one that was actually a feature.

  • Peak hours

    That suspiciously productive 11pm–1am window.

  • Editor religion

    Vim keybinds in everything. No, I can't stop.

cat stack.json

The toolbox, honestly.

Not a keyword-stuffed wall of logos — the tools I actually reach for, grouped by the job they do.

languages

What I think in.

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • Scala

frameworks & runtime

Where the product gets built.

  • React
  • Redux
  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • Nx
  • Astro

aws & cloud

Where it all runs.

  • AWS
  • AWS CDK
  • DynamoDB
  • Serverless

data & streaming

What keeps it up at 3am.

  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Flink
  • Temporal

tooling & ops

The stuff under my fingers.

  • Docker
  • Git
  • Cypress
  • Linux
  • Neovim
git log --career

A commit history of getting better.

The actual through-line of how the work, and the scope, kept growing. Because Resume is supposed to be 1 page and LinkedIn has a word limit of 2000.

  1. Jul 2025 — Present

    Software Engineer · SDE-2

    Owning systems, not just features — IaC migrations, real-time streaming, authz re-architecture, and the tooling the team builds on.

    Performance Management Platform

    • Built and delivered a config-driven employee development planning framework, enabling career progression tracking across multiple disciplines within the org's performance management platform.
    • Spearheaded the migration of fragmented IaC from legacy CloudFormation and manually managed resources to a modular AWS CDK architecture — importing stateful resources with zero downtime and zero data loss while improving deployment consistency.
    • Re-architected the platform's authorization model, replacing DynamoDB-based permission checks with Amazon Verified Permissions (Cedar): fine-grained, policy-driven RBAC with Cognito token enrichment for scalable, auditable access control.
    • Migrated a legacy codebase into an Nx monorepo — consolidating shared packages, improving build performance, and standardizing tooling to sharpen developer experience for future work.
    • Designed and built a Go developer CLI using OAuth 2.0 + PKCE to provision and seed isolated dev environments. Used goroutines for concurrent AWS operations and shipped an independent CI/CD pipeline distributing cross-platform binaries.

    Real-Time Event Management Platform

    • Architected and delivered the platform's flagship real-time event dashboard — an end-to-end streaming architecture using PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY, SignalR, Redis, Server-Sent Events, and optimized fan-out for low-latency delivery.
    • Built a reusable frontend event-processing framework on generic Redux middleware, enabling rapid onboarding of new real-time integrations with minimal effort.
    • Engineered a custom Debezium MSSQL Change Tracking connector, extending the open-source connector to support Change Tracking instead of CDC while keeping 100% schema compatibility with the existing Kafka/Flink ETL pipeline.
    • Designed an optimized Change Tracking sync strategy — querying primary keys from the primary DB and fetching row data from read replicas — minimizing production load while preserving consistency.

    USAF Pilot Scheduling Modernization

    • Modernized a mission-critical USAF pilot scheduling app, migrating legacy KnockoutJS components to React while preserving feature parity across production systems.
    • Optimized rendering across websocket-driven screens — eliminating unnecessary re-renders and reaching sub-millisecond critical rendering path performance via React DevTools profiling.
    • Established a scalable end-to-end testing framework with Cypress, meaningfully improving regression coverage and release confidence.

    Technical Leadership

    • Mentored and led a cohort of 30+ engineering interns across Frontend, Backend, and AWS tracks — designing structured learning paths and ensuring measurable technical outcomes.

  2. Jul 2024 — Jul 2025

    Software Developer · SDE-1

    Full-stack delivery across a serverless appraisal platform, a polyglot telecom charging stack, and a workflow-driven hiring product.

    Performance Assessment Platform

    • Migrated the org's performance assessment platform from an always-on server architecture to fully serverless AWS — cutting infrastructure costs by ~90% while holding scalability through peak appraisal cycles.
    • Developed full-stack features with Serverless Framework, TypeScript, React, and AWS services, owning both frontend and backend delivery.
    • Optimized DynamoDB access patterns across critical APIs, meaningfully reducing latency through efficient query and scan design.
    • Implemented configurable automated reminder workflows with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler.

    Telecom Charging Platform

    • Contributed across a large-scale polyglot telecom platform spanning Spring Boot, Go, Scala, TypeScript (AWS CDK), Python, and Flink, supporting mission-critical charging infrastructure.
    • Modernized legacy Java runtimes and AWS SDKs in the Charge Engine, resolving breaking changes while improving build performance and cutting application latency by ~10%.
    • Upgraded Go runtime versions across a customized Diameter Adapter, improving protocol-layer latency by 5%.
    • Designed a batch latency sampling framework in Go publishing CloudWatch EMF metrics — surfacing p50, p90, and p99 latency for production monitoring.
    • Optimized AWS Lambda cold starts with SnapStart and upgraded Flink streaming jobs processing Amazon Kinesis data streams.
    • Refactored deployment architecture by separating the core Charge Engine into dedicated infrastructure stacks, cutting deployment times by ~33%.
    • Supported production ops and incident response while authoring runbooks covering AWS Athena, VPC Flow Logs, NLB Access Logs, AppSync GraphQL, and AWS Glue.

    Talent Acquisition Platform

    • Developed a microservices-based Talent Acquisition & Performance Management platform with Spring Boot and Temporal, delivering configurable workflow-driven hiring pipelines.
    • Leveraged AI-assisted workflows to rapidly generate production-ready APIs, reusable UI components, and integrations — shipping 15+ admin screens in a single sprint.
    • Implemented Micro Frontends via Module Federation, enabling independent deployment within a shared host architecture.
    • Established Mock Service Worker API mocking and a reusable auth layer that shared state seamlessly across the Micro Frontend ecosystem.

  3. Jan 2024 — Jul 2024

    SDE Intern

    Built and operated a multi-tenant Hotel Booking Engine end to end — from concurrency strategy to the entire AWS footprint.

    Multi-Tenant Hotel Booking Engine

    • 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 through optimistic and pessimistic locking strategies to keep bookings consistent under high contention.
    • Designed, deployed, and operated the full AWS footprint — 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 with multi-layer caching and CDN strategies, driving critical paths to sub-millisecond response times.
    • Delivered production-grade full-stack features with React, Vite, Material UI, Redux, Spring Boot, Java, TypeScript, and Python — secure JWT auth, CI/CD pipelines, auto scaling, failover, monitoring, and alerting.
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