Shivam Kasoudhan

Backend Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana 2+ yrs exp 85 · Excellent

About

Backend Engineer with 2+ years of production experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems processing millions of daily transactions. Strong ownership in architecting APIs, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across backend services using .NET Core, Spring, Redis, Kafka, AWS, and PostgreSQL.

Skills & Expertise (22)

Git Intermediate

7.0/10

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Redis Intermediate

7.0/10

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Python Intermediate

6.5/10

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Kubernetes Intermediate

6.5/10

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.NET Core Intermediate

6.5/10

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AWS Intermediate

6.5/10

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MySql Intermediate

6.0/10

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Docker Intermediate

6.0/10

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Postgresql Intermediate

6.0/10

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C# Intermediate

6.0/10

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JavaScript Intermediate

5.5/10

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Express.js Intermediate

5.0/10

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MongoDb Intermediate

5.0/10

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SQL Server Intermediate

5.0/10

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Kafka Intermediate

5.0/10

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Loki Intermediate

5.0/10

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Structured Logging Intermediate

5.0/10

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Metabase Intermediate

5.0/10

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Postman Intermediate

5.0/10

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Spring Boot Intermediate

4.5/10

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FastAPI Intermediate

4.0/10

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C++ Intermediate

4.0/10

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Work Experience

Software Engineer 2

Ixigo

Nov 2025 - Present

Architected a config-driven transaction processing and refund system for Metro, including QR-based spend controls, payment orchestration, webhook retries, and observability, ensuring high success rates across millions of daily transactions. Designed distributed ONDC callback coordination using Redis blocking queues, enabling reliable async flows; integrated Loki-based observability to detect anomalies and reduce failure rates. Optimized Train Running Status API with context-aware cross-sell enrichment and config-driven policies, eliminating redundant calls and driving a 20% increase in metro bookings. Built a /routes API computing K-shortest paths using a Redis-cached graph, reducing DB load and enabling scalable station validation with enriched route responses. Engineered a reconciliation pipeline for IRCTC–Ixigo reports, automating mismatch detection, alerts, and reporting, reducing manual effort and improving financial data consistency. Developed a unified station and train metadata pipeline integrating external APIs with SQL fallback, ensuring reliable data delivery with clean architecture and structured logging.

Software Engineer 1

Policybazaar

Jun 2024 - Oct 2025

Engineered scalable backend systems in .NET Core powering insurance workflows for 1.5L+ agents, owning end-to-end lifecycle from architecture to deployment. Built a Plan Comparison API enabling side-by-side plan evaluation over REST/HTTP, improving product selection speed by 33% and reducing redundant client-side calls. Improved plan listing performance by 3× by shifting data processing to backend APIs, reducing mobile load times and scaling efficiently under high traffic. Secured configuration management using AWS Secrets Manager with dynamic key-value binding, eliminating hardcoded credentials and improving security posture by 75%. Integrated Google Analytics to derive user behavior insights, increasing product selection by 33% and driving a 15% lift in conversion rates. Built real-time anomaly detection for plan visibility issues using custom monitoring pipelines, reducing debugging time by 30% and production downtime by 40% through proactive bottleneck identification. Implemented cheque-based payment integration increasing successful transactions by 20%; developed rule-based voucher automation with real-time tracking and accurate reward calculation.

Software Engineer Intern

Proactive for Her

Mar 2024 - May 2024

Delivered a Google Business auto-reply bot with Dialogflow and Cloud Functions cutting manual response work by 40% through AI-driven policy automation. Managed database operations and authored a Metabase data visualization dashboard via SQL, surfacing actionable business insights and streamlining decision-making processes.