Current role
Building backend systems at Zepto
Focused on backend and platform work with an emphasis on scale, reliability, and engineering that holds up in production.
Backend engineer profile
Backend Engineer & Tech Lead
Backend engineer and tech lead building systems that scale, stay reliable, and survive real production complexity.
I build backend platforms, production systems, and internal infrastructure for teams that need scale, reliability, and clean execution.
Currently at Zepto. Previously led backend and platform work at Unacademy across CRM, authorization, observability, and infrastructure. My focus is distributed systems, platform engineering, and the technical decisions that keep systems usable under real operational load.
Currently building at Zepto
~40% infrastructure cost reduction at Unacademy
Systems supporting ~2,000 internal users
Location
Bengaluru, India
Strong background in backend development, cloud systems, and platform engineering.
~40%
Cloud cost reduction
Optimized infrastructure at Unacademy while improving scalability and operations.
~2K
Sales users supported
Led backend systems for CRM workflows used by a large internal sales organization.
4+
Core engineering lanes
Backend, platform, infrastructure, and production reliability across multiple roles.
About
Backend engineering with ownership, architecture, and production thinking.
This section now does more than introduce you. It signals leadership, engineering maturity, and the system-design instincts that senior backend roles care about.
I work best where backend architecture, product scale, and engineering ownership intersect. My experience spans internal platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability.
I’ve led teams, owned critical services, improved cost efficiency, and built systems that support real business operations rather than toy workloads.
What I optimize for is not just shipping features, but designing systems that stay understandable, observable, and maintainable as load and team complexity increase.
Tech Leadership
- Led in-house CRM engineering work for large internal operations.
- Owned backend and platform decisions across authorization, notifications, logging, and observability.
- Worked closely with infrastructure and SRE concerns including secrets handling, monitoring, and reliability.
- Built APIs and backend systems consumed by multiple clients without breaking product velocity.
What I Care About
- Scalability over short-term hacks
- Reliability and observability by default
- Clear API contracts across teams
- Cost-aware infrastructure decisions
- Simple architectures that survive growth
Python
Go
Django
Flask
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
MySQL
Redis
Jenkins
Ansible
Kafka
Selected Work
Selected work with a little more engineering depth.
Instead of shallow project cards, this section now explains the problem, the architectural direction, and the outcome so it reads more like a senior engineer speaking about real systems.
Unacademy
CRM and Sales Platform Systems
Platform Ownership
Backend systems for internal CRM workflows serving a large sales organization.
PythonDjangoMySQLAWS
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Unacademy
Authorization and Platform Services
Architecture & Reliability
Core services around authorization, notifications, logging, and infrastructure evolution.
GoDockerKubernetesAWS
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Kruzr
Real-Time Driving Behavior Platform
Realtime Systems
Backend processing for sensor data and low-latency driving behavior analysis.
PythonFlaskKafkaDocker
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Unacademy
Infrastructure cost optimization
Led efforts that reduced web services cloud cost by around 40% while improving scalability and infrastructure management.
Unacademy
Kubernetes migration
Planned and migrated core backend servers from standalone EC2 machines to Kubernetes clusters for better availability and scaling.
Unacademy
Authorization architecture
Architected the authorization management service for external and internal users across the wider Unacademy ecosystem.
Kruzr
Real-time stream processing
Implemented synchronized sensor-data processing pipelines with low latency to support quick intervention and behavior analysis.
Experience
Experience across backend development, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure.
I replaced the abstract timeline with real roles and concrete engineering responsibility from your resume.
Current
Software Engineer
Zepto • Bengaluru, India
- Currently working on backend and platform systems.
- Focused on scalable services, operational reliability, and production engineering.
- This section can be updated with more role-specific detail once you want to add it.
Previous
Principal Engineer
Unacademy • Bengaluru, India
- Led engineering for internal CRM and platform systems supporting large business teams.
- Worked on authorization, notifications, observability, security, and backend scalability.
- Improved API performance, query efficiency, and overall service reliability.
Earlier
Backend Engineer
Kruzr Smart Driving Assistant • Bengaluru, India
- Architected backend processing for sensor data and personalized driving behavior analysis.
- Migrated core services from a monolith to a microservice architecture.
- Built APIs and low-latency data flows for Android and iOS clients.
Earlier
Platform Engineer
Quantiphi • Mumbai, India
- Worked on cloud infrastructure for video recording, upload, and stream-processing pipelines.
- Built deployment automation and supported AWS/GCP compute, storage, identity, and network services.
- Handled secure multi-cloud source selection without exposing media publicly.
Contact
Open to backend, platform, and systems conversations.
This is intentionally more direct now. The contact section should help someone reach you quickly, not compete for attention.
Let's talk about backend systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure.
Reach out if you're hiring, collaborating, or just want to discuss scalable services, reliability, cloud architecture, or engineering systems.
sagaryadaviitk@gmail.com