About

Santosh Kumar is a Software Engineer at Tekion Corp with a passion for problem-solving and a drive to learn and innovate. With over 2 years of relevant experience, he has honed his skills in Java, AWS, Python, Spring Boot, and other technologies. Prior to joining Tekion, Santosh worked as a Software Engineer at Spinny, where he made significant contributions to the company's success. He optimized top 20 APIs almost 50 times by DB-Indexing, caching, and optimizing code architecture, resulting in a 40% reduction in AWS resources and annual savings of $60K. His projects were featured in the Series-D Funding round of Spinny led by Tiger Global of $108 Million. He also designed a complete Refund System REST API and contributed to the Referral system API used by 1K/day. Santosh implemented a Slack Notifier on payment, saving developer's 90% time and improving the integrity of the system by 20%. He designed, developed, tested, and deployed Test Drive-applicability API, enhancing customer experience 2 times. Santosh reduced OTP API time by 100 times and TopLink API time to 8 sec to 400 ms via DB-Indexing and query optimization. He showed leadership skills, including thinking big, being curious, and diving deep. Santosh's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. He also completed a Campus Director internship at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. Santosh's technical skills extend beyond software engineering to include research science, microservices, and more. His experience with Jenkins, New Relic, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker has also given him a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Overall, Santosh is a talented and driven software engineer with a proven track record of success. He is eager to take on new challenges and continue to grow his skills.