About

Sumit Raj is a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. He is an expert in building and scaling innovative products at the intersection of analytics, machine learning, and internet technologies. Sumit's specialties include Python/Django/Flask, REST API development, performance, application scalability, cost optimization, analysis automation, team leading, and chatbots. He is passionate about chatbots, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and startups. Sumit has domain experience in FinTech, real estate, revenue management, developer platform, location tracking, Indian stock market, forex, MT5, edtech, and CRM. He has designed and architected products using technologies like AWS Lambda, EC2, auto-scaling, ELB, target groups, launch configurations, Route53, S3, MongoDB, SES, SNS, Pingdom, Blazemeter, Redis, Nginx, uWSGI, webhooks, API Gateway, ElasticBeanStalk, and DynamoDB. Currently, Sumit is working as a Principal Engineer/Technical Architect at Unacademy, where he is leading the architecture and design of backend technologies. He has previously worked as an Engineering Lead at Unacademy and VP of Engineering at Geospark. At Geospark, Sumit solved core engineering problems with less cost and high reliability. He also helped businesses understand their customers better by deriving user insights through location intelligence. Sumit has experience in part-time product management, adding new features, enhancements, and optimizing the process of building good software to make it market-fit. He has also reviewed DPAs, contract terms, software licensing agreements, and pricing strategy for clients. Sumit holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Information Science Engineering from Dayananda Sagar University. He has also completed several online courses from Coursera. Sumit's tech stack includes senior software engineer, Python, ML, AWS, Django, NLP, MongoDB, test, Flask, Redis, backend, web, Javascript, data scientist, AI, Pandas, MySQL, sentiment analysis, software engineer, Seaborn, product manager, RabbitMQ, Tensorflow, and Postgres. Overall, Sumit is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a passion for building innovative products and solving complex engineering problems.