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Upender Mula
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and FinTech
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Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end real-time reporting/analytics backend (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Celery) including AWS deployment
- Designed non-blocking Kafka consumer architecture as a separate service with async processing, retries, and Redis caching
- Production Kubernetes deployments on EKS using Helm with autoscaling, ConfigMaps/Secrets, and health checks
- CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions/GitLab CI plus ArgoCD for continuous sync/deploy
- Planned and executed phased on-prem to AWS migration using Terraform, containerization, parallel run, and load balancer traffic shifting
- Built high-volume streaming pipeline with Kafka + PySpark; improved fault tolerance via partitions, backoff retries, and checkpointing
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