Soumya Perala

About

Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time data ingestion/processing/reporting API built with FastAPI, Redis, and Celery, including performance tuning via query/index optimization, caching, and async workers. Strong Kubernetes + CI/CD + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, plus hands-on monitoring/logging (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and a Kafka/Spark real-time streaming project from their master’s program.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Owned end-to-end backend architecture for a scalable real-time REST API (FastAPI/Redis/Celery)
• Performance bottleneck diagnosis and remediation (execution plan analysis, indexing, caching, async offloading)
• Production Kubernetes deployment experience with autoscaling, probes, resource limits, and rolling updates
• Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to test, build, publish images, and deploy via Helm/kubectl
• GitOps implementation with ArgoCD (Git as source of truth, PR-based changes, automated sync/rollback)
• Planned and executed phased legacy-to-cloud migration with dependency decoupling, staging validation, and rollback planning
• Real-time streaming pipeline design using Kafka + Spark Structured Streaming with fault-tolerance techniques

Reference Highlights

• Strong Python proficiency
• Able to tackle complex problems
• Breaks down problems into smaller issues
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Hands-on project experience
• Contributed significantly to architecture design
• Thorough in testing API endpoints
• Focus on scalability and reliability
• Helped deliver a fault-tolerant product
• Efficiently handled migrations
• Proactive in handling production issues
• Strong understanding of low-latency requirements
• Thoughtful about system trade-offs
• Clear communicator during real-time troubleshooting
• Collaborates well with cross-functional teams
• Thrives in fast-paced/startup environments
• Proactive communication
• Open to feedback
• Effective alignment with product/engineering/operations
• Adaptable and focused under pressure
• Willing to contribute beyond assigned responsibilities
• Committed and delivers results under tight deadlines
• Consistently delivers high-quality work