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Amrita Pritam - Senior Backend Engineer in Fremont, CA

Amrita Pritam

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and event-driven systems

MicrosoftManipal Institute of TechnologyFremont, CA10 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend engineer with production experience building a high-scale notification pipeline (~20M/day) using Java/Dropwizard with Kafka and Azure Queue, including DLQ/poison-message handling and the outbox pattern for reliability. Also led a batch-based migration of Yammer Messaging user data from PostgreSQL to Azure Cosmos DB for global multi-region scale, addressing throttling and network failures via retries, escalation policies, and dynamic throughput tuning.

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Key Strengths

  • Designed and operated high-scale notification pipeline (~20M notifications/day)
  • Resolved poison message failures by implementing DLQ handling with monitoring/alerting
  • Improved reliability with outbox pattern to prevent message loss on crash between DB write and queue publish
  • Led batch-based migration from PostgreSQL to Azure Cosmos DB for global/multi-region scale
  • Built retry/escalation policies by classifying transient vs permanent errors; coordinated escalation to owning team (IC3)
  • Handled Cosmos DB throttling and network failures by dynamically adjusting throughput
  • Diagnosed and improved slow SQL using EXPLAIN and composite index (user_id, created_at)

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Experience

Senior Backend EngineerMicrosoft · Jan 2022 – Jan 2025

Education

Manipal Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science (2014)

Languages

English

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Amrita PritamSenior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and event-driven systems