About

Pankaj Tanwar is a self-taught software developer with a passion for designing distributed systems that scale. He has over 3 years of relevant experience and is currently working as a Software Developer at paisabazaar, where he is building a centralized Alert Management platform and a kafka-based async service connecting 10+ microservices. He also developed the Paid Credit Health Report PDF product from scratch, which scaled to 2 Cr bureau users and streamlined slow pdf downloading (approx 85% faster) with caching layer. Additionally, he implemented 5+ asynchronous data processing kafka workers for various web services. Pankaj's skills include languages such as JavaScript, Python, and C++, frontend technologies like React and Angular, backend technologies such as Node.js, Express, and PHP, and databases like MySQL and MongoDB. He is also proficient in testing frameworks like Mocha and Chai and technical practices like Agile, Test Driven Development, and REST API Design. His passion includes handling complex and interesting scale problems. Pankaj is a Freelance Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience working on 15+ cloud-based web applications and expertise in REST APIs design and development. He has utilized MEAN software stack (MongoDB, Express Js, Angular, NodeJs), Docker, NestJs, NATS, Git, Heroku, Python3, and developed backend functionalities and maintained production servers for many different clients across the country. He has also created SaaS solutions to serve the requirements of some US-based clients. Pankaj holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. He enjoys reading, writing, and learning about tech and writes about System Design, backend engineering & web technologies at https://blog.pankajtanwar.in/.