About

Suraj Sharma is an experienced Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in designing and building backend services to support various application functions. He is currently working as an SDE 3 at Play Games24x7, where he is responsible for the backend system of My11Circle, a cricket-based fantasy gaming platform that operates on a massive scale and requires highly scalable, fault-tolerant, low latency systems. Suraj has previously worked as a Technical Lead (Hands-on) at CloudMagic, where he led backend development teams for Action Layer and Notification Layer. He used Node.js to build APIs and various job workers and has experience working with AWS services like EC2, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and SQS for almost 6 years. He has also built Serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB stream, and Kinesis. At CloudMagic, Suraj designed and led the team to build an array of power features like Snooze, Send Later, True Inbox, Email Templates, Email alias, etc. He also developed a generic time-based job scheduling infrastructure using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS, which is the heart of features like Snooze and Send Later. Suraj has optimized DynamoDB usage and reduced overall IOPS consumption, saving some dollars on their monthly bill. He has also optimized Notification Layer in terms of cost and reliability, sending out more than 67M push notifications every day with less cost. Suraj has also worked as a Software Engineer at Webyog, where he moved the entire server stack to AWS from Rackspace, enabling scaling of their stack. He has experience working with Salesforce, infra, Big Data, and test. Suraj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from GLA, Mathura. He is proficient in Software Engineering, AWS, Backend, NodeJS, Javascript, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce, infra, Big Data, and test, with a relevant experience of 10.79 years.