Hi, I'm Durga Kundu.
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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate programmer with a curious mind who enjoys solving complex and challenging real-world problems.
About
I am a Software Engineer II at GasBuddy. I enjoy problem-solving and coding. Always strive to bring 100% to the work I do. I have worked on technologies like Python, Scala, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS, Java, Spring Boot. I have 6 years of professional work experience which helped me strengthen my experience in software engineering. I am passionate about developing complex applications that solve real-world problems impacting millions of users.
- Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, HTML/CSS, Bash, TypeScript
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB
- Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, React, D3.js, jQuery, Lodash
- Frameworks: Flask, Django, Node.js, Next.js, Express.js, Bootstrap
- Tools & Technologies: Git, Docker, AWS, GCP, Heroku, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
Looking for an opportunity to work in a challenging position combining my skills in Software Engineering, which provides professional development, interesting experiences, impactful work, and personal growth.
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Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Database Management Systems
- Operating Systems
- Intro to Data Science
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New York, New York, United States
Degree: Introduction to Cyber Security Specialization
- Introduction to Cyber Attacks
- Cyber Attack Countermeasures
- Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation
- Enterprise and Infrastructure Security
Relevant Courseworks:
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Degree: Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization
- Cloud Computing Foundations
- Cloud Virtualization, Containers and APIs
- Cloud Data Engineering
- Cloud Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Degree: Fintech: Foundations and Applications of Financial Technologies Specialization
- Fintech: Overview, Payments, and Regulation
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: an Introduction to Digital Currencies
- Lending, Crowdfunding, and Modern Investing
- Application of AI, Insurtech, and Real Estate Technology
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
Degree: Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance Specialization
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Primitives
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Deep Dive
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Opportunities and Risks
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London, United Kingdom
Degree: Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership Specialization
- Introduction to Creative Thinking: Tools for Success
- Systematic Creative Thinking: Tools for Success
- Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success
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Stanford, California, United States
Degree: Food Sustainability, Mindful Eating, and Healthy Cooking Specialization
- Cooking for Busy Healthy People
- Rebuilding Our Relationship with Food
- Introduction to Food and Our Environment
Relevant Courseworks:
Geneva, Switzerland
Degree: Investment Management Specialization
- Understanding Financial Markets
- Meeting Investors' Goals
- Portfolio and Risk Management
- Securing Investment Returns in the Long Run
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Experience
- Developed a robust and high-performance web application using Golang, adhering to best practices for maintainable and scalable code.
- Implemented RESTful API endpoints to facilitate seamless data exchange between the server and client applications.
- Utilized Go's concurrency model to optimize application performance, effectively handling multiple requests simultaneously.
- Integrated various third-party libraries and frameworks to extend the functionality and efficiency of the application.
- Conducted thorough unit testing and integration testing to ensure code quality and reliability, achieving over 90 percent test coverage.
- Deployed the application using Docker for containerization, ensuring consistent environments across development, testing, and production.
- Implemented logging and monitoring solutions to track application performance and quickly identify and resolve issues.
- Collaborated with a cross-functional team, including front-end developers, UX designers, and product managers, to define project requirements and deliverables.
- Utilized version control systems like Git for efficient source code management and collaboration.
- Provided comprehensive documentation for the codebase, including API documentation, to facilitate future development and maintenance.
- Optimized database interactions using Go's database/sql package, improving query performance and reducing latency.
- Participated in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.
- Successfully migrated legacy code from a different programming language to Golang, resulting in a more efficient and maintainable codebase.
- Leveraged Golang’s standard library to minimize external dependencies and reduce potential security vulnerabilities.
- Developed automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI to streamline the deployment process and reduce manual intervention.
- Tools: Sumo Logic, AWS, Stripe, Dwolla, Wex, Bash, Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, Jira, PostgreSQL, Confluence, React, TypeScript, Kotlin
- Design and develop efficient database structures and queries to optimize the performance of GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems.
- Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.
- Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues. Resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions.
- Develop and implement scalable and efficient backend solutions to support GasBuddy's platform.
- Conduct code reviews of team members' code to ensure adherence to best practices and maintain code quality standards.
- Collaborate with the team to develop and implement innovative and user-friendly solutions for GasBuddy's Payment services that enhance the customer experience.
- Work with the Product Owner to prioritize and plan the development of new features for GasBuddy's Payment services.
- Participate in regular team meetings to provide updates on the progress of feature development and discuss any challenges or roadblocks.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of GasBuddy's Payment services backend systems by providing feedback and suggestions for enhancements and optimizations.
- Tools: Sumo Logic, AWS, Stripe, Dwolla, Wex, Bash, Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, Jira, PostgreSQL, Confluence, React, TypeScript, Kotlin
- Inspired and mentored less experienced engineers and interns.
- Interviewed candidates in system design.
- Won 5th place in ShipIt 2022 hackathon out of 400 teams with 7 teammates for employee birthday/anniversaries generator web app built with React & Node.
- Worked in a startup-like environment that was fast-paced, continuously changing, and with rapidly increasing responsibilities day-by-day because the team had too many high-priority projects and too few engineers.
- Built and shipped back-end API features and capabilities daily in a highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment.
- Ensured full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services and independently created and presented multiple TechOps reports.
- Developed and debugged APIs and features for Cloud Security Link's Identity And Access Management and User Provisioning microservices to scale from syncing 1000s of group memberships to 12+ million on Atlassian Access Admin customer site.
- Optimized queries for databases containing tables for users, groups, and group memberships by 500x.
- Worked with Java, Kotlin, Splunk, SignalFx, Pollinator, LaunchDarkly, pganalyze, SAML, OAuth, Okta, Microsoft Azure, User Provisioning, Agile Methodologies, PostgreSQL, and AWS stack, including security, deployment pipelines, and automation.
- Completed on-call rotations, led the team to solve major incidents, attended to customer questions about team's services and APIs, wrote documentation of common questions and answers for support engineers to reference.
- Became an expert in streamhub, shipyard, and AWS SQS resources domain and wrote technical tutorials and reference pages for teammates and new hires.
- Gained experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
- Demonstrated high-quality technical writing.
- Managed internal and external customer requirements and expectations.
- Gained experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for backend services.
- Tools: Bitbucket, Confluence, Java, SAML, OAuth, Spring Framework, AWS, Splunk, Kotlin, Linux, Bash, SQL, Git, Jira, PostgreSQL
- Led 10 interns to compete an annual ShipIt hackathon and developed a Slack API using Git, Bash, Node.js, and Heroku to motivate employees to volunteer for causes/events sponsored by Atlassian. The integration contains a Leaderboard showing the employees who have volunteered for the most causes/events and recommendations for the best volunteer opportunities based on employee votes and reviews.
- Migrate user provisioning REST API load tests from Gatling, which is written in Scala, to our internal testing tool written in Python to execute 1000+ requests per minute per HTTP method.
- Simulate 1000, 2000, and 5000 users. Test GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE types of APIs. Monitor CPU and Memory use.
- Analyze data gathered from load test runs via signalFX dashboards and Splunk logs, provide sound recommendations for performance improvements, and identify bottlenecks of application.
- Improved performance of PATCH API response by 10 times.
- Cached GET API requests to relieve load on the Postgres database and to improve response times.
- Tools: Scala, Python, Gatling, PostgreSQL, SAML, OAuth, AWS, Linux, Bash, Spring Framework, Splunk, SQL, Git, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Collaborated with a team of peers and a Google software engineer to design and implement a swimming pool rental web application using Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS over the course of 10 weeks, leveraging various Google Cloud Platform APIs, including App Engine and Datastore.
- Practiced industry best practices such as: contributing to open source software using Git and GitHub, conducting code reviews with/for teammates, extending an existing codebase, participating in distributed development, designing new components and interfaces and leading them to completion.
- Built a map with a search box that finds all of the swimming pools in a specified city within a chosen country and displays markers for all of the pools returned, with on-click details for each pool using the Google Places API and Google Maps JavaScript API.
- Presented ideas and development plans to senior software engineers and engineering managers at Google Cloud HQ in Sunnyvale, CA.
- Mentored by software engineer on Google Shopping team in Cambridge, MA.
- Tools: GCP, Bash, SQL, HTML, Git, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Java Servlet
- Designed and built an issue and assignment tracking ASP.NET and C# application for the Fault Analysis team which standardizes the process of reporting accidents that occur at company substations and managing employees progress to resolve issues and prevent future problems.
- Coordinated weekly meetings with the team to present project scope, goals, and deliverables to ensure consistency with company strategy and commitments.
- Delivered comprehensive documentation of project development and subsequent revisions to include insights from all stakeholders and ensure that future developers can understand and maintain the application.
- Tools: Bash, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, jQuery, AJAX
- Worked 7 nights per week for free while attending full-load of university math, computer science, and physical sciences courses.
- Collaborated with graduate students to develop a web tool for users to quickly identify diseases that influence other diseases.
- Developed color-coded network visualizations using D3.js to visualize connections between specific disease miRNAs.
- Managed large databases that support web applications using SQL and PHP on phpMyAdmin.
- Tools: Bash, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, D3.js
- Worked and logged 17-18 hours per weekday for free for a startup company during senior experience which was last couple months of high school.
- Engineered the company website content and improved its functionality and design using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery.
- Conferred with the company owner to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, develop content criteria, and choose solutions.
- Reduced team product development time by creating an interactive mobile application prototype for the developers to reference.
- Tools: HTML, CSS
- Taught students from Washington-Liberty High School and Swanson Middle School in Arlington, Virginia in Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry.