Girish Kulkarni👋

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Backend Developer with extensive DevOps and SRE experience, specializing in building and deploying scalable web applications with Kubernetes orchestration.

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I'm a software developer specialized in Web Applications and Devops

Girish Kulkarni

Backend Developer, Devops Engineer

I'm an experienced software engineer who constantly seeks out innovative solutions to everyday problems.

After 2.5 years in this industry I have worked with multiple back-end and devops technologies.

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MS in Software Engineering Systems

Northeastern University

Work Experience

Semi-Senior Engineer with 2.5 Years of experience in the software industry

Tamr | Backend Developer and DevOps Engineer.

Aug 2023 - Present

Built Image Tag Reconciliation Operator with Go/Kubebuilder framework, replacing flaky legacy jobs and achieving 99.9% success rate across 250+ images.
Engineered high-throughput Cloudflare Log processor in Go handling 1TB+ daily log volume, storing structured data in GCP Spanner for billing analytics; delivered custom dashboard enabling product teams to visualize API usage patterns and optimize client billing accuracy by 95%.
Enhanced CI/CD security posture by integrating SBOM generation and CVE scanning into Jenkins pipelines, enabling automated vulnerability detection across 100+ microservices and achieving SOC 2 compliance requirements.
Designed reusable Terraform module for GCP Spanner deployment across 15+ environments, reducing infrastructure setup from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
Led infrastructure modernization of 50+ Terraform modules with Renovate bot automation, reducing maintenance overhead.

IDFC First Bank | Backend Developer.

Jul 2021 - Jul 2023

Created the "IDFC's Credit Card," a GO-based Credit Card net banking backend application used by 1 million users, ensuring resilience and error testing through Integration and Pact Driven Contract Tests.
Collaborated with business analysts and stakeholders to support functional requirements of consumer-facing APIs, such as bill payments and credit card transaction conversion to EMI.
Designed and normalized database schema for paying house rent through credit cards, including implementing endpoints for interbank fund transfer and beneficiary management.
Implemented Kafka integration to enable real time monitoring of card and account activity, promptly alerting on viewing sensitive card information and changes in limits to mitigate fraud.

Afford Medical | Backend Developer and Devops Intern.

Dec 2020 - June 2021

Implemented a microservices architecture, allowing seamless communication between multiple services through gRPC proto buffers, which led to a 40% increase in transactions within the first three months.
Built and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI, ensuring continuous integration and delivery.
Deployed the website on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), leveraging the power of cloud infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance.
Successfully designed and implemented an in-house concurrent cache using Golang, specifically utilizing heaps, significantly reduced operational costs by eliminating the need for reliance on external caching systems like Redis.

Krayonzz | Front end development intern.

May 2020 - Aug 2020

Engineered an innovative onboarding platform module for Krayonnz Academy, enabling seamless integration of new academic institutions onto the platform, leading to a 50% increase in user adoption and a significant expansion of the institution network.
Formulated web pages including login page, student report cards, fee payments using Figma and built them using Angular.
Worked on their B2B saas platform by communicating with users and making the appropriate changes to the platform, following the scrum methodology.
Made changes to their application using Angular, Typescript, MaterialUI, CSS, AWS S3, PostgreSQL.