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Rajat Sharma

Senior Software Engineer — Backend Systems & APIs

I turn messy, high-stakes backend problems into systems that just work — and keep working after I've moved on. Over 8 years I've taken a real-estate platform from 5 U.S. states to 10, led a 12-engineer team through biweekly releases, and now own data pipelines for Reuters' global content platform. Django and DRF are my home base; AWS, Celery and Go are what I reach for when Django alone isn't enough.

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8yrs in production systems
12 engineers led at Kellton
100% market coverage growth @ Scop

// impact log

What actually moved the needle

Not just what I built — what changed because of it.

5 → 10

U.S. states covered by Scop's real-estate platform under my ownership — a 100% jump in market reach and revenue.

12 Engineers

Led and mentored a team of 12 at Kellton as Scrum Master, owning biweekly releases, PR review, and technical direction.

350+ Machines

IoT vending fleet at Grubox run on a Django backend I built, plus a real-time offers engine that lifted sales on weak SKUs.

manual → automated

Replaced manual partner onboarding, logo updates and metadata fixes at Reuters Connect with serverless AWS pipelines.

Celery + Redis

Built async task pipelines across Scop and Prism — scheduled MLS syncs, work-order automation, and background processing that kept both platforms responsive under load.

high availability

Kept JLL's Prism platform reliable at scale — async Celery/Redis pipelines, Sentry/Datadog-backed production support.

// summary

I design and ship RESTful APIs, background-processing pipelines, and cloud-native services in Python — primarily Django and Django REST Framework, with FastAPI and Flask where they fit better. I've taken products from early-startup scrappiness (Grubox, Teamwave) through enterprise scale (Reuters Connect, JLL's Prism), and led a team of five through client delivery and biweekly releases at Scop. Comfortable owning a service end-to-end: schema design, async task orchestration with Celery/Redis, deployment on AWS, and the on-call debugging that comes after.

Based inIndia (remote-ready)
FocusDjango / DRF / AWS / Microservices
CurrentlySII Group India — Reuters Connect
EducationB.Tech ECE, GNDU Amritsar

// deploy log

Experience

Every role, read top to bottom like a release history.

ACTIVE 2025-08 → present

Senior Software Engineer @ SII Group India

Reuters Connect — global content distribution platform

  • Led backend development for a platform letting media orgs buy, sell and distribute news across video, photo, text and audio.
  • Built serverless data-migration and backfill pipelines on AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and SWF for partner onboarding and metadata sync.
  • Used CloudWatch for monitoring/incident response, and Jenkins for CI/CD across environments.
DjangoDRFAWS LambdaDynamoDBSWFCloudWatchJenkins
COMPLETED 2024-10 → 2025-02

Senior Software Engineer @ Quarks Technosoft

Autodesk Testing Hub — automated smoke-testing platform

  • Led backend API development for Autodesk's testing hub on Django, built for scale.
  • Designed a microservices architecture on AWS Lambda + DynamoDB with CloudWatch-based monitoring.
DjangoDRFFastAPIAWS LambdaKubernetes
COMPLETED 2021-11 → 2024-10

Senior Software Engineer @ Kellton

Scop (real-estate) & Prism (JLL property management)

  • Grew a real-estate buying platform from 5 to 10 active U.S. states — a 100% jump in coverage and revenue.
  • Built a Go-based microservice for MLS data retrieval, integrated via daily Celery-scheduled jobs into the Django monolith.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 12 as Scrum Master; owned biweekly releases, PR review, and technical decisions.
  • On Prism (JLL): built async task processing with Celery/Redis for work orders, inspections and maintenance scheduling; handled production support with Sentry & Datadog.
DjangoDRFFlaskFastAPIVueJSCeleryRedisPostgreSQLSentryDatadog
COMPLETED 2020-08 → 2021-11

Full Stack Developer @ Teamwave

CRM / PM / HRM productivity suite — core startup team

  • Built the Products and Email sub-modules of the CRM — inventory/revenue tracking and inbox-to-CRM email linking via AWS SES.
  • Both features were top customer requests and became competitive differentiators.
DRFFlaskAngularJSAWS SESPostgreSQL
COMPLETED 2019-12 → 2020-07

Full Stack Developer @ Grubox

IoT-based vending machine network, NCR region

  • Built the Django/DRF backend powering the mobile ordering app for 350+ vending machines.
  • Shipped a real-time offers & discount engine that lifted daily sales on low-performing SKUs.
DjangoDRFAngularJSRedis
COMPLETED 2018-12 → 2019-11

Full Stack Developer @ Paradise Techsoft

  • Built internal dashboards with Django/Bootstrap; integrated ML models into web applications.
  • Learned production web scraping with BeautifulSoup and Scrapy.
DjangoFlaskPandasscikit-learnSelenium
COMPLETED 2018-06 → 2018-11

Python Developer Intern @ Sachtech Solutions

  • First production Django experience — internal dashboards, third-party API integration, and web scraping.
PythonDjangoBootstrap

// systems shipped

Projects

Reuters Connect

content platform · Aug 2025 – present

core: AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · S3 · SWF · Django/DRF

  • Own backend development for a global content-distribution platform where media organizations buy, sell and distribute news across video, photo, text and audio formats.
  • Design data-ingestion pipelines and microservices supporting partner onboarding, provider integrations, metadata processing and reliable content delivery.
  • Build Python migration/backfill services for legacy and live datasets, handling bulk processing while preserving data accuracy and consistency.
  • Architect serverless workflows on Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and AWS SWF to automate onboarding, logo management and metadata sync across distributed systems.
  • Automate previously manual operations — partner logo updates, metadata corrections, bulk updates — cutting manual effort and turnaround time.
  • Use CloudWatch for monitoring/incident investigation and Jenkins for CI/CD; apply prompt engineering to streamline content-ops workflows.
PythonDjangoAWS LambdaDynamoDBSWFJenkins

Scop

real estate · Nov 2021 – Oct 2024

core: Django/DRF · Celery · PostgreSQL · Go (data service)

  • Owned backend development for a real-estate buying platform, growing live coverage from 5 to 10 eastern U.S. states — a 100% increase in market reach and revenue.
  • Designed a microservices architecture with a Go service for high-throughput MLS data retrieval, integrated into the Django monolith via daily Celery-scheduled jobs.
  • Built ingestion pipelines normalizing raw listing data (Zillow, Realtor, Rent) into a relational schema, exposed through DRF APIs.
  • Implemented core business logic for yield and maintenance-cost calculations used by the market team to judge property profitability.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 12 engineers as Scrum Master; owned biweekly release cycles, PR review and technical decision-making.
  • Worked directly with clients to gather requirements and translate them into technical scope, keeping delivery predictable as the team grew.
DjangoDRFCeleryPostgreSQLGo (integration)

Prism

property management (JLL) · Nov 2021 – Oct 2024

core: DRF · Celery/Redis · Sentry · Datadog

  • Built and maintained scalable RESTful APIs for a large-scale property-management platform used by JLL across web and mobile.
  • Supported work-order management, inspections, preventive maintenance scheduling, reservations, tenant communications, vendor coordination and invoicing.
  • Implemented asynchronous task processing with Celery/Redis to automate critical operations and improve responsiveness.
  • Owned production support and debugging, using Sentry and Datadog to catch issues before they affected availability.
  • Balanced new feature delivery with performance optimization and platform stability across a live, high-usage system.
DRFCeleryRedisSentryDatadog

Testing Hub

internal tooling · Oct 2024 – Feb 2025

core: Lambda · DynamoDB · Step Functions

  • Led backend API development for Autodesk's smoke-testing automation platform, built for scale from day one.
  • Designed a microservices architecture on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, avoiding server-management overhead.
  • Set up CloudWatch-based monitoring and alerting to catch failing test runs early.
  • Used CloudFormation to onboard new projects onto the platform without manual environment setup.
LambdaStep FunctionsCloudFormation

Teamwave

SaaS / CRM · Aug 2020 – Nov 2021

core: DRF · AngularJS · AWS SES

  • Joined the core startup team building a productivity suite spanning CRM, project management and HR modules.
  • Built the Products sub-module end-to-end, letting users track inventory and revenue tied to product orders.
  • Built the Email sub-module, linking full email conversations into the CRM via AWS SES — one of the most-requested customer features.
  • Both modules drew strong customer feedback and helped the product outperform competitors in the CRM space.
DRFAngularJSAWS SES

Grubox

IoT / mobile · Dec 2019 – Aug 2020

core: Django/DRF · AngularJS · Redis

  • Built the backend powering Grubox's mobile ordering app for a 350+ machine IoT vending fleet.
  • Built the staff dashboard frontend in AngularJS for bulk order placement and inventory monitoring.
  • Shipped internal dashboards and features that improved day-to-day operations for the internal team.
  • Designed a real-time offers-and-discount engine that validated conditions dynamically and lifted sales on underperforming products.
DjangoDRFAngularJSRedis

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// stack

Skills

Languages

PythonJavaScriptSQLBashJava

Backend

DjangoDjango REST FrameworkFastAPIFlaskCeleryRedis

Cloud & DevOps

AWS LambdaS3DynamoDBEC2 / RDSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesJenkinsAzure DevOps

Frontend

AngularJSVueJSBootstrap

Data & Observability

PostgreSQLOpenSearchSentryDatadogCloudWatch

AI & LLM Integration

Prompt EngineeringAnthropic Claude APILLM-Powered AutomationAI-Assisted WorkflowsAI-Powered Web Crawling

Practices

RBAC / AuthTDDMicroservicesScrum MasterAgile/ScrumPrompt EngineeringLLM Integrations

// education

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar — 2013 to 2017

// recognition

Recognition

Employee of the Quarter

Dec 2018 – Mar 2019

Certification

REST API Development with DRF

Udemy

Certification

Django Web Development

Udemy

// get in touch

Let's build something reliable.

Open to Lead / Senior Software Engineer roles. Based in India, comfortable working across US/EU hours.

email rajat4665@gmail.com phone +91 75088 60012 github github.com/rajat4665 linkedin in/rajat-sharma-dev