Ashok Arika

Backend Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra 1+ yrs exp 83 · Excellent

About

Backend Engineer with 1.6 years of experience engineering high-throughput RESTful APIs and scalable cloud architectures for a high-traffic event photography SaaS. Expert in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with extensive hands-on experience in AWS ecosystem deployment. Proven track record of designing microservices, optimizing database performance, and implementing complex integrations including payment gateways and AI-driven vector search. Seeking to leverage expertise in modern backend architecture and distributed systems.

Skills & Expertise (25)

FastAPI Advanced

7.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

RESTful APIs Advanced

7.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Python Advanced

7.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

SQL Advanced

7.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Postgresql Advanced

7.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Redis Advanced

7.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Microservices Advanced

7.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Git Advanced

7.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

SQS Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

System Design Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Kubernetes Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Docker Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Lambda Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

S3 Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

AWS Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

AsyncIO Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Asynchronous programming Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

SQLAlchemy Intermediate

6.5/10

1.6

Years Exp

Prometheus Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

OpenTelemetry Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Event-Driven Architecture Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Stripe Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Easebuzz Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

Model Context Protocol Intermediate

6.0/10

1.6

Years Exp

PGvector

Work Experience

Software Developer

Fotoowl.ai

Feb 2025 - Present

Engineered FotoOwl Beam camera-to-cloud APIs using FastAPI, implementing encrypted FTP/SFTP credentials and live connection tracking in Redis, supporting multiple concurrent camera feeds. Architected and deployed an end-to-end Photo Selling microservice, integrating multi-currency checkouts (Stripe/Easebuzz) to process substantial monthly transaction volumes with automated vendor payouts. Optimized high-performance RESTful APIs for web and mobile clients, achieving highly efficient response times across numerous event galleries through PostgreSQL query optimization and Redis caching. Integrated AI vector search capabilities via pgvector and CLIP models, significantly improving semantic photo search accuracy and speed. Designed a secure, dynamic CDN-based image delivery system using Cloudflare and Imagor, reliably serving massive volumes of image data with automated watermarking and multi-resolution generation. Developed an automated AI video generation pipeline processing large-scale Excel data sets via AWS S3 and Personate.ai, drastically scaling processing throughput. Established comprehensive system monitoring utilizing Prometheus and OpenTelemetry to track API health, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for backend bottlenecks.