About

Sandeep Kumar is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience in developing highly distributed, scalable, secured, performant, and available systems from scratch. He is currently working with Paytm as an Engineering Manager and has previously worked with Naukri, Shopclues, and Samsung. Sandeep has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Thapar University. Sandeep has a vast technical skill set and has worked with programming languages such as Java, NodeJs, PHP, Python, and C++. He has experience working with databases such as Mysql, OracleDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Solr, and DynamoDB. Sandeep has also worked with caching systems like Memcache, Redis, and Aerospike, and messaging queues such as RabbitMq and Kafka. He is familiar with security tools like Akamai WAF and Hashicorp Vault and reverse proxies like Nginx and HAProxy. Sandeep has expertise in cloud computing with AWS and has worked with tech tools like Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD via Jenkins, and ELK. He is also proficient in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Datadog, Zabbix, and New Relic. Sandeep has hands-on experience across multiple scalable systems, including Fastag Acquirer System, Recharges & Bill Payments for Mobile & Utilities, Paytm Insurance Broking, Paytm First - Loyalty Membership Programme, and more. He has worked with technologies like NodeJs, JAVA, PHP, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Elastic Search, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Bloom filter, AWS, Amazon dynamo DB, Hashicorp’s vault, Filebeat, Kibana, Zabbix, Datadog, Elastalerts, and New Relic, among others. In his previous roles at Paytm, Sandeep held the positions of Senior Technical Lead and Technical Lead. He has relevant experience of 10.54 years and has worked on various projects, including Localisation - Central Multilingual System for Paytm APP, Elastic Search Based Real-time APP monitoring and alerting System, Merchant Subscription System, and In-house Versioned Key Value Store (APP Manager) to replace Google Tag Manager. Sandeep is a skilled software engineer with expertise in integration and backend development.