About

Pradeep Kumar is a highly motivated and experienced software engineering professional with over 13 years of experience in coding and system design of highly scalable, robust, and secure applications using open source technologies. He has expertise in multiple industry domains, including e-commerce, digital payments, and OTT. Pradeep loves to solve engineering problems and conduct fail-fast POCs on new technologies. He has experience in building and mentoring teams of up to 16 resources, including backend developers, UI developers, and QA. As a Senior Engineering Manager at BaaziGames, Pradeep managed the core aspects of product engineering management by designing/prototyping, work distribution, development, code reviews, documentation, and maintaining projects based on agile methodology. He is proficient in Java (Spring), PHP, RDBMS (MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), REST APIs, Messaging Brokers (Kafka, AmazonSQS, RabbitMQ), Distributed Cache (Redis), MultiThreading, Cloud (AWS), and Node Js. Pradeep is also interested in web and app security. Currently working as a Technical Lead at Zee5, Pradeep designed and developed a standard API framework for B2B partnership, which improved overall customer experience and ease of API implementation for partners due to better documentation. He also improved subscription API latency from 3 seconds to ~150ms using AWS SQS. In his previous roles, Pradeep served as a Software Development Manager at Healthkart, where he designed and developed an Omni Channel loyalty program for HK & Retail, resulting in an overall user base increase of ~4% and sales going up to ~9%. He also led the whole backend and frontend team of Healthkart.com, leading resources up to ~16. At Paytm, Pradeep was a Senior Technical Lead, leading the full technology stack of Utilities bill payments (Electricity, Apartments, Water, and Gas) and maintaining and optimizing the integration framework designed for landing new operator/gateway in the system. Pradeep holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and Shobit Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut. He has a strong tech stack, including AWS, Redis, MySQL, PHP, Backend, RabbitMQ, NodeJS, Spring, MongoDB, Java, NoSQL, UI, Web, QA, Kafka, Javascript, Frontend, Software Engineer, Spark, test, SQL, Elastic Search, Microservices, Mobile, MSSQL,