About

Vivek Kumar is a highly skilled Cloud Engineer with over 4 years of experience in software development. He has worked on high traffic systems with big data volumes and has experience in managing and developing microservices, REST APIs, monitoring dashboards, Elasticsearch cluster, AWS resources, and CI/CD pipelines. Currently, Vivek works as a Senior Software Engineer at Paytm, where he manages backend and data services for merchant analytics. His responsibilities include maintaining an analytics dashboard and P4B app analytics tab, managing Springboot application servers, Elastic Cluster, MySQL DB, designing frameworks and solutions for analytics and onboarding engine for merchants, and managing pipelines for CI/CD, AWS resources, and dashboards for monitoring systems. Previously, Vivek worked as a Software Engineer at Samsung, where he implemented aggressive strategies to enhance user experience on Samsung Smart TV App Store. This included migrating from IDC to AWS and adopting microservice architecture and CI/CD pipelines. He was responsible for developing new APIs and features for new TV models and old ones, fixing bugs and monitoring traffic, and handling alarms. He also had complete ownership of 3 OpenAPI modules, Recommendation Engine, and 2 backend batches. Vivek holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He also attended Army Public School for Basic Skills and Developmental/Remedial Education. Vivek has a diverse tech stack, including Software Engineering, AWS, CI/CD, Backend, Elasticsearch, Microservices, MySQL, Java, Spring Boot, Big Data, Python, Mobile, Redis, SQL, Search, Spark, Docker, Javascript, ML, Research Scientist, Kafka, Jenkins, DevOps, and Django. With 4.95 years of relevant experience, Vivek is a valuable asset to any team he joins.