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Krishna YadavSenior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, developing and operating highly scalable distributed systems using Java, Spring Boot, Python and Go. Experienced in microservices, batch processing, big data pipelines, event-driven systems and AWS, with a strong focus on service ownership, performance, scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, data integrity and production reliability. Experienced in driving architecture decisions and architecture reviews for high-impact systems.

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Krishna Yadav, Senior Backend Engineer

Krishna Yadav

Bangalore, India

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Years of engineering experience

Prime Day Peak In-Charge (2022-23)SDE Interviewer, 90+ loops3x Intern Mentor — 100% PPODell Scrum LeadIIIT-D Best IR Project 2020Prime Day Peak In-Charge (2022-23)SDE Interviewer, 90+ loops3x Intern Mentor — 100% PPODell Scrum LeadIIIT-D Best IR Project 2020
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Backend & Platform Engineering

Scalable Backend Services visual
Dell Technologies · 2025 — Present

Scalable Backend Services

Java and Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event-driven architecture, owned from system design through production delivery.

▲ 10,000+ users · 70% less manual effort

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesKafkaHLD & LLD
Live Optics & PowerSizer Integration visual
Dell Technologies

Live Optics & PowerSizer Integration

Drove technical design discussions and architecture reviews for a Spring Boot integration, influencing architecture decisions across teams.

▲ 80% less manual effort

Architecture ReviewsSpring BootSystem DesignCross-team Delivery
AISizer visual
Dell Technologies

AISizer

Built from scratch and tuned for high availability and fault tolerance, using Redis caching and MongoDB data modeling to maintain performance.

▲ 40% faster deal velocity · $2M annual savings

RedisMongoDBHigh AvailabilityFault Tolerance
Agentic Conversational Workflows visual
Yellow.ai · 2024 — 2025

Agentic Conversational Workflows

Agentic AI conversational workflow with intent-level analytics and an async Kafka pipeline blending NLP + LLM behind Java microservices.

▲ 5M+ events/day · +12% intent accuracy · +18% engagement

NLP + LLMKafkaIntent AnalyticsMicroservices
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Experience

Dell Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (SDE III)

Apr 2025 — Present

Java · Spring Boot · Microservices · Kafka · MongoDB · Redis · Distributed Systems · HLD · LLD · Bangalore

  • Owned microservices and backend services from design through delivery, building Java and Spring Boot services with Kafka event-driven architecture, serving 10,000+ users and cutting manual effort by 70%.
  • Drove technical design discussions and architecture reviews, influencing system architecture and technical decisions across teams for a Spring Boot integration between Dell Live Optics and PowerSizer, cutting manual effort by 80%.
  • Built AISizer from scratch and tuned it for high availability and fault tolerance, using Redis caching and MongoDB data modeling to maintain performance, delivering 40% faster deal velocity and $2M in annual savings.
  • Participated in on-call production support, driving root cause analysis for critical incidents and improving service reliability while mentoring 3 junior engineers through code reviews and collaborating with Product, QA, SRE and Security teams.

Yellow.ai

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2024 — Apr 2025

Java · Python · NLP · LLM · Kafka · Microservices · Bangalore

  • Shipped an agentic AI conversational workflow with intent-level analytics and an async Kafka pipeline processing 5M+ events/day, integrating NLP + LLM with Java microservices — +12% intent accuracy, +18% enterprise engagement, plus model-quality feedback loops.

Graphic Era Deemed University

Software Engineer & Assistant Professor (DSA)

Nov 2023 — Dec 2024

Java · Python · NLP · Microservices · Dehradun

  • Delivered 15+ production-grade backend/NLP systems and code-reviewed across 200+ engineers; enforced coding standards, testing patterns, observability (Grafana/Prometheus) and agile delivery.
  • Taught Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems to 300+ students; mentored 5+ junior engineers on system design, concurrency and production debugging.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2021 — Nov 2023

Java · AWS · SQL · Data Modeling · Message Driven · Data Pipelines · Bangalore

  • Competitor Governance: Led a team of 3 to build a recommendation engine from scratch, cutting 90 days of manual review to 3 hours with $1B+ business impact to Amazon Retail.
  • Orchestrated 100+ batch-processing data pipelines using SQL and multi-threaded Apache Spark jobs on AWS EMR over ~20M records across 1,000+ metrics, solving big data and data integrity challenges and troubleshooting failures across environments.
  • Implemented single-click orchestration of worldwide competitor status updates for 5M+ records across 40 metrics.
  • Developed a data-driven full-stack ReactJS web application with automated end-to-end, unit and integration testing on DynamoDB, S3 and REST APIs, cutting 4 weeks of manual review to 30 minutes.
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Technical Skills

JavaPythonC++CScalaSQLC#TypeScriptJavaScriptBash
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Projects & Publications

Published · ICON'22

Normalization of Spelling Variations in Code-Mixed Text

Phonetics-based normalization at LCS2, IIIT-Delhi. 5% accuracy gain on intent classification and slot-filling in low-resource dialog systems.

Best IR Project · IIIT-D 2020

Auto-Categorization & Retrieval of 100K+ Documents

Voice assistant with inverted-index retrieval, 30% faster retrieval, deployed on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda).

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Education

IIIT-Delhi

8.96 / 10 CGPA

M.Tech CSE (Data Engineering)

Distributed Systems, ML, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, DB Systems, Algorithm Design

Graphic Era Deemed University

8.53 / 10 CGPA

B.Tech CSE

Operating Systems, DBMS, Computer Networks, Compilers, OOP, Data Structures