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RAJ KUMAR
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices
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Backend engineer at Discover who built and scaled Python/Flask services for a card dispute resolution platform, tackling long-running external network validations with Celery+Redis and delivering measurable gains (response time ~3s to <300ms; throughput +40%). Experienced in high-scale PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization (partitioning, read replicas, N+1 avoidance), event-driven systems with Kafka, and integrating ML fraud detection using AWS SageMaker/Lambda/ECS with clear separation of real-time vs batch processing.
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Key Strengths
- Built Python/Flask backend services for card dispute resolution platform across multiple card networks
- Resolved long-running external validations/timeouts by introducing Celery + Redis async processing
- Strong SQLAlchemy performance tuning (indexes/constraints, lazy vs eager loading, N+1 avoidance)
- Scaled PostgreSQL with monthly partitioning and read replicas to separate analytical workload
- Integrated ML fraud detection using AWS SageMaker with Lambda orchestration and REST deployment
- Designed scalable containerized backend on AWS ECS with separation of real-time scoring vs batch jobs
- Implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka to decouple services and process events in parallel
- Implemented schema-per-tenant PostgreSQL multi-tenancy with tenant-specific configuration and connection pooling
- Quantified performance impact: reduced API response time from ~3s to <300ms and improved throughput by ~40% via background task optimization
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