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Senior back-end engineer (Go, distributed systems) resume sample
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Rohit Banerjee
Staff Back-end Engineer – Go & Distributed Systems · Bengaluru, Karnataka
Professional Summary
Back-end engineer with 8 years designing high-traffic systems in Go and Java. Built the payments ledger that settles ₹1,800 crore a month with zero reconciliation gaps. Lead architecture reviews across 5 teams and mentor senior engineers.
Skills
Languages
- Go
- Java
- SQL
- Python
Systems
- gRPC
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- CockroachDB
- event sourcing
- idempotency
- sagas
Platform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Leadership
- architecture reviews
- incident command
- mentoring
- hiring
Work experience
Staff Engineer – Payments Platform, Sathi Pay Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru · Jan 2022 – Present
- Designed and built a double-entry ledger in Go on PostgreSQL that settles ₹1,800 crore a month with zero reconciliation gaps.
- Cut UPI payment latency at p99 from 1.9 s to 600 ms by removing two synchronous hops and adding gRPC.
- Run architecture reviews for 5 teams; wrote the company's service design and incident guides.
- Mentor 4 senior engineers; two promoted to staff level.
Senior Software Engineer, Swiftcart Commerce
Bengaluru · Jun 2019 – Dec 2021
- Rebuilt the inventory service in Go to handle 25,000 orders a minute during sales.
- Introduced Kafka for stock events and removed nightly batch syncs.
Software Engineer, Orbitz Software Labs
Kolkata · Jul 2017 – May 2019
- Built REST services in Java and Spring for travel booking clients.
Projects
Open-source rate limiter
Go, Redis
Distributed token-bucket rate limiter used in production by several Indian start-ups; 900 stars.
Education
B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology Durgapur · NIT Durgapur · 8.8 CGPA · 2013 – 2017
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional – Amazon Web Services (2023 – 2026)
Conferences & Talks
- Speaker: “Building a ledger you can trust” – GopherCon India, Pune (2024)
Languages Known
- Bengali – Native
- English – Fluent
- Hindi – Fluent
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