About

Chandan Kumar is a highly skilled software engineer with over 3 years of experience in designing and developing scalable microservices. He has an in-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and best practices, and is proficient in data structures, algorithms, and various computer science fundamentals. Currently, Chandan works as a Software Engineer at BYJU'S, where he created the byjus-calendar microservice that aggregates all the classes and events from different source systems for students at a single place. He also worked on database query optimization and DB indexes, which reduced the latency of APIs from 200ms to 30ms. Chandan set up AWS CloudWatch alerts and monitoring dashboards, which help quickly identify any production issues. Additionally, he worked on the suggestion-widget microservice, which aggregates widgets from different sources at a single place, such as missed class widget, pending homework widget, and more. Prior to his current role, Chandan worked as a Specialist Programmer and System Engineer Specialist at Infosys. While there, he gained experience in technologies like Spring-Boot, React, and Oracle database. He also worked on ReactJS and Spring-Rest for creating an interview platform portal and migrated virtual machines from AWS to GCP as part of the business process. Chandan also worked on Selenium for automating test cases, which resulted in a 30% decrease in bugs. He worked on Kong API Gateway for authentication, which can handle 100 requests per second and created a service that uses Microsoft Information Protection SDK to protect and classify files. Chandan holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, formerly WBUT. He has a diverse tech stack that includes software engineering, Spring, Spring Boot, microservices, Java, AWS, SQL, test, Kafka, Docker, GCP, Selenium, and Golang. With almost 4 years of relevant experience, Chandan is an asset to any software development team.