About

Bagio Johnson is a curious and skilled software developer with over 3 years of experience working with service and product-based companies. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur. Bagio has worked in various roles such as Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Software Engineering. His keen interests lie in Distributed Systems and Big Data. Currently, Bagio works as a Data Engineer at fokal, where he has worked on 6 different projects in designer, developer, and lead roles. He has profiled and reviewed code to find bottlenecks and optimized algorithms. Bagio has also worked on datapipelines that convert PDFs to OCR, text, and NLP to extract and create structured metadata from scanned text. Additionally, he has done R&D to convert a product idea (scraping) to POC and then to a usable product, writing utils functions for the same to make scraping easy for all developers with minimal effort. Bagio has also designed and developed a completely new AWS subsystem using AWS SpotInstances, which reduces AWS costs by 60% while keeping the learning curve similar to lambda. He is focusing more on distributed systems and has mentored juniors and interns. Bagio has also designed and developed data streaming pipelines that handle about 1 lakh events and scale up to 10 lakh based on load. These pipelines were designed in MultiCloud. Before joining fokal, Bagio worked as an Associate Software Developer at Accenture, where he started in a support role and got promoted to the developer role. He worked on Java, SQL, and SOA arch, developed a simple Document Similarity Tool for internal Knowledge articles, and became a key member of the Innovation Team. Bagio's tech stack includes AWS, Data Engineering, Backend, Software Engineer, SQL, Microservices, Java, NLP, Python, Spark, Big Data, designer, Elastic Search, Selenium, Docker, Search, Javascript, Research Scientist, Integration, and Web. With 5.86 years of relevant experience, Bagio is a skilled software developer with a passion for solving complex problems and building efficient systems.