Personal details

Sunil C.

Backend Lead

Based in: 🇮🇳 India

Timezone: Kolkata (UTC+5.5)

Summary

Nine years of experience in the industry. Expert in Python/Django, Golang, Java, LLD, HLD, and distributed Systems.

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

Python・8 yrs Go (Golang)・5 yrs AWS (Amazon Web Services)・4 yrs

Other skills

PostgreSQL・8 yrs HTML/CSS・8 yrs MongoDB・4 yrs Git・8 yrs RESTful API・8 yrs Terraform・1 yr Amazon Redshift・1 yr Redis・2 yrs Bootstrap 4・6 yrs MySQL・6 yrs Web Scraping・4 yrs Payment gateway・2 yrs Python 3・8 yrs Angular・5 yrs Java・8 yrs

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer

PhonePe | Aug 2022 - Sep 2023

Java

Django

Python 3

Dropwizard

• Backend Lead at PhonePe, driving impactful initiatives in the Life Insurance sub pod.
• Led a high-performing team of 4 backend engineers, fostering collaboration and growth.
• Took ownership of Life Insurance team projects, including Limited Pay feature design.
• Successfully implemented innovative functionalities to enhance user experience.
• Optimized funnel conversion via strategic enhancements like HP and L1 widgets.
• Conducted thorough code reviews and mentored junior developers.
• Committed to high-quality code standards and continuous learning.
• Grateful for opportunities at PhonePe, excited to make a tech impact in the future.

Engineering Lead

Unacademy | May 2021 - Jul 2022

Django

Node.js

Redis

Python 3

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• I was part of the TEX team where I worked on challenging tasks like improving the overall scale of a critical microservice. I also took care of load testing the service to figure out potential bottlenecks.
• Worked on daily scholarship quiz product.
• Setup loading testing infra setup used across the organization.
• Added question-level metrics useful for learners.
• I’m currently part of a team that worked on Platform: a marketplace-like product where partners can sell their courses on the Unacademy platform.

Education

PES University

Bachelor's degree・Computer Science

Sep 2010 - Jun 2014

Personal Projects

Github Feel Good

2019

GitHub

Chrome Extension

JavaScript

Github Feel Good is a chrome extension which helps you feel good about your github profile. The extension increase the count of stars and forks of all of the pinned repositories, followers, total repositories and enhances the contribution graph based on the mode selected. There are three available modes: Feel Good - Increases the repo count in the range of 100 - 1000. Feel Better - Increases the repo count in the range of 1000 - 10000. Feel like a Rockstar! - Increases the repo count in the range of 10000 - 100000. Forks count and followers count increase in the range of 30 - 70% of the increased stars count.

Product Hunt CLI

2019

Node.js

A command line tool to access product hunt's products right from your terminal. Inspired by Team Xenox's Dev.To CLI (https://teamxenox.github.io/devtocli/)