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Remote Salary Negotiation: Get Paid What You're Worth Working From Home

Negotiate remote salaries effectively. Location-based pay, home office stipends, benefits, and proven negotiation scripts.

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Ananya Kapoor

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Backend Engineer focused on scalable APIs, resilient cloud architectures, and clean service boundaries. 7+ years of experience delivering high-availability systems, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable product impact.

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Backend Engineer focused on scalable APIs, resilient cloud architectures, and clean service boundaries. 7+ years of experience delivering high-availability systems, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable product impact.

Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Indeed

2022 - Present

Re-architected candidate recommendation APIs, improving throughput by 2.4x during peak traffic.

Built observability dashboards and tracing workflows that reduced production debugging time by 45%.

Partnered with product and data teams to launch ranking experiments that improved engagement by 16%.

Backend Engineer

Oracle

2019 - 2022

Developed multi-tenant billing services with strict compliance and auditability requirements.

Improved data synchronization reliability from 98.7% to 99.95% using event replay and dead-letter handling.

Projects

API Reliability Toolkit

Created reusable middleware for rate limiting, idempotency, and request tracing across backend services.

Tech: Python, FastAPI, Redis, OpenTelemetry

Job Alert Delivery Engine

Built event-driven notification pipeline with retry orchestration and channel prioritization.

Tech: Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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Ananya Kapoor

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ananya.kapoor@outlook.com | +1 (512) 555-8834 | Austin, TX | linkedin.com/in/ananyakapoor | github.com/ananyak

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Backend Engineer focused on scalable APIs, resilient cloud architectures, and clean service boundaries. 7+ years of experience delivering high-availability systems, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable product impact.

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Indeed | 2022 - Present

Re-architected candidate recommendation APIs, improving throughput by 2.4x during peak traffic.

Built observability dashboards and tracing workflows that reduced production debugging time by 45%.

Partnered with product and data teams to launch ranking experiments that improved engagement by 16%.

Backend Engineer

Oracle | 2019 - 2022

Developed multi-tenant billing services with strict compliance and auditability requirements.

Improved data synchronization reliability from 98.7% to 99.95% using event replay and dead-letter handling.

Projects

API Reliability Toolkit

Created reusable middleware for rate limiting, idempotency, and request tracing across backend services.

Tech: Python, FastAPI, Redis, OpenTelemetry

Job Alert Delivery Engine

Built event-driven notification pipeline with retry orchestration and channel prioritization.

Tech: Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS

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Ananya Kapoor

Backend Engineer focused on scalable APIs, resilient cloud architectures, and clean service boundaries. 7+ years of experience delivering high-availability systems, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable product impact.

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Indeed

2022 - Present

Re-architected candidate recommendation APIs, improving throughput by 2.4x during peak traffic.

Built observability dashboards and tracing workflows that reduced production debugging time by 45%.

Partnered with product and data teams to launch ranking experiments that improved engagement by 16%.

Backend Engineer

Oracle

2019 - 2022

Developed multi-tenant billing services with strict compliance and auditability requirements.

Improved data synchronization reliability from 98.7% to 99.95% using event replay and dead-letter handling.

Projects

API Reliability Toolkit

Created reusable middleware for rate limiting, idempotency, and request tracing across backend services.

Tech: Python, FastAPI, Redis, OpenTelemetry

Job Alert Delivery Engine

Built event-driven notification pipeline with retry orchestration and channel prioritization.

Tech: Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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Ananya Kapoor

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ananya.kapoor@outlook.com | +1 (512) 555-8834 | Austin, TX

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Backend Engineer focused on scalable APIs, resilient cloud architectures, and clean service boundaries. 7+ years of experience delivering high-availability systems, cross-functional collaboration, and measurable product impact.

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Indeed

2022 - Present

Re-architected candidate recommendation APIs, improving throughput by 2.4x during peak traffic.

Built observability dashboards and tracing workflows that reduced production debugging time by 45%.

Partnered with product and data teams to launch ranking experiments that improved engagement by 16%.

Backend Engineer

Oracle

2019 - 2022

Developed multi-tenant billing services with strict compliance and auditability requirements.

Improved data synchronization reliability from 98.7% to 99.95% using event replay and dead-letter handling.

Projects

API Reliability Toolkit

Created reusable middleware for rate limiting, idempotency, and request tracing across backend services.

Tech: Python, FastAPI, Redis, OpenTelemetry

Job Alert Delivery Engine

Built event-driven notification pipeline with retry orchestration and channel prioritization.

Tech: Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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Rohan Mehta

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Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing distributed backend systems, developer platforms, and data-intensive services. Proven record of improving reliability, reducing cloud spend, and delivering business-critical capabilities in fast-paced product organizations.

Experience

2021 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Bloomberg

Improved scalability and system resilience by decomposing legacy monolithicAPIs into independently deployable Spring Boot microservices, reducingdowntime by 20%.

Reduced p95 API latency by 43% through query optimization, Redis caching, and asynchronous processing.

2018 - 2021

Software Engineer II

American Express

Built payment orchestration microservices handling $3B+ annual transaction volume.

Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka, improving data synchronization reliability to 99.9%.

Projects

Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline

Designed streaming pipeline for transaction anomaly detection with sub-2-second decision latency.

Tech: Java, Kafka, Flink, PostgreSQL, AWS

Developer Self-Service Platform

Built internal platform for service provisioning, CI/CD automation, and monitoring dashboards.

Tech: Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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Rohan Mehta

Professional Title

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Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing distributed backend systems, developer platforms, and data-intensive services. Proven record of improving reliability, reducing cloud spend, and delivering business-critical capabilities in fast-paced product organizations.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Bloomberg

2021 - Present

Improved scalability and system resilience by decomposing legacy monolithicAPIs into independently deployable Spring Boot microservices, reducingdowntime by 20%.

Reduced p95 API latency by 43% through query optimization, Redis caching, and asynchronous processing.

Software Engineer II

American Express

2018 - 2021

Built payment orchestration microservices handling $3B+ annual transaction volume.

Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka, improving data synchronization reliability to 99.9%.

Projects

Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline

Designed streaming pipeline for transaction anomaly detection with sub-2-second decision latency.

Developer Self-Service Platform

Built internal platform for service provisioning, CI/CD automation, and monitoring dashboards.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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  • rohan.mehta@protonmail.com
  • +1 (646) 555-4421
  • New York, NY
  • linkedin.com/in/rohanmehta-tech
  • github.com/rohanmehta

Skills

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Microservices
  • REST API Design
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • System Design
  • Observability
  • CI/CD
  • Technical Leadership

Education

M.S. in Computer Science

New York University

2016

B.E. in Information Technology

Pune University

2014

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing distributed backend systems, developer platforms, and data-intensive services. Proven record of improving reliability, reducing cloud spend, and delivering business-critical capabilities in fast-paced product organizations.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Bloomberg

2021 - Present

Improved scalability and system resilience by decomposing legacy monolithicAPIs into independently deployable Spring Boot microservices, reducingdowntime by 20%.

Reduced p95 API latency by 43% through query optimization, Redis caching, and asynchronous processing.

Software Engineer II

American Express

2018 - 2021

Built payment orchestration microservices handling $3B+ annual transaction volume.

Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka, improving data synchronization reliability to 99.9%.

Projects

Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline

Designed streaming pipeline for transaction anomaly detection with sub-2-second decision latency.

Tech: Java, Kafka, Flink, PostgreSQL, AWS

Developer Self-Service Platform

Built internal platform for service provisioning, CI/CD automation, and monitoring dashboards.

Tech: Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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Rohan Mehta

Professional Title

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing distributed backend systems, developer platforms, and data-intensive services. Proven record of improving reliability, reducing cloud spend, and delivering business-critical capabilities in fast-paced product organizations.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Bloomberg

2021 - Present

Improved scalability and system resilience by decomposing legacy monolithicAPIs into independently deployable Spring Boot microservices, reducingdowntime by 20%.

Reduced p95 API latency by 43% through query optimization, Redis caching, and asynchronous processing.

Software Engineer II

American Express

2018 - 2021

Built payment orchestration microservices handling $3B+ annual transaction volume.

Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka, improving data synchronization reliability to 99.9%.

Projects

Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline

Designed streaming pipeline for transaction anomaly detection with sub-2-second decision latency.

Developer Self-Service Platform

Built internal platform for service provisioning, CI/CD automation, and monitoring dashboards.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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