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Suraj is a backend engineer building distributed systems and event-driven services in Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.

Suraj Nanda

Experience

Acko

2025

SDE 2

Implementing the Outbox Pattern to Eliminate Event Loss at Acko Debugging the Nominee Flow Failure at Acko Under Production Pressure

mPokket

2023 – 2025

Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented a microservice that redirected users from the app to web onboarding, increasing completion rates by 30% by optimizing the user journey and API authentication. • Developed a merchant onboarding system that onboarded 30 agents and 27 merchants, improving user acquisition by 20% through automated QR code registration and secure document uploads via S3. • Built a Kafka consumer service to process transactional messages, handling 10K+ calls daily, ensuring real-time updates and data consistency across microservices. • Initiated a Redis-backed caching solution for frequently accessed data, reducing API latency from 200ms to 25ms, enhancing system responsiveness for 30K+ users. • Created daily cron jobs to track and update the status of expired offers, boosting campaign efficiency by 15%, using Redis locks to prevent race conditions. • Integrated JWT-based authentication across services, enhancing security and access control by restricting API access based on user roles, ensuring compliance with industry standards. • Engineered a rule engine service that allows merchants to define custom rules, reducing manual intervention by 40% through automated validation and real-time enforcement. • Led the modernization of legacy codebases, improving code efficiency by 35%, by adopting best practices like asynchronous processing and dependency optimization. • Architected an AI-powered resume-building service supporting 3K DAU, leveraging the RAG model to generate user-specific recommendations and improve engagement. • Engineered a message queue consuming service via Kafka, automating data ingestion from 15+ sources and reducing manual data entry errors by 99%, leading to better data quality. • Optimized the Astro Labs service to support 2K concurrent users, using Redis for caching horoscope data, reducing API response time and improving engagement-driven revenue.

Astro Lab: Designing a Horoscope Service from Scratch Building mPokket's Kafka Consumer for mCoin Expiry Redis Caching Layer: Cutting API Latency at mPokket

Ninjacart

2022 – 2022

Software Development Engineer

• Outlined endpoints to fetch data from different services for 100+ users using NodeJs and MongoDB. • Constructed APIs to store appointment details of 10K+ users with financial experts using NodeJs and ExpressJs. • Optimized API to automate a document management service using Spring Boot and MySQL, enhancing efficiency. • Migrated documents stored in the VM to AWS S3 bucket, reducing physical storage usage by 60%.

Antino

2021 – 2021

Back End Developer

• Developed middlewares for global error handling, authentication, and schema validation. • Integrated Stripe to enable multiple payment options, supporting 1000+ users. • Created a cloud function using Google Firebase to notify users of newly received chats in real time. • Refactored an API to efficiently track transaction history for 1000+ users using MongoDB.

BRAINOVISION SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT.LTD

2021 – 2021

Software Development Intern

• Developed a CRUD app using DynamoDB and AWS-SDK • Added Create, Read, Update and Delete features to the single page web- application

Zensar Technologies

2019 – 2020

Web Development Intern

• Fixed bugs in CRUD Application using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose. • Improved the user interface using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Suraj Nanda

About Me

Suraj Nanda is a backend engineer with around four years of experience building distributed systems, microservices, and real-time event-driven services in Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. He works across the full backend lifecycle: design, development, and production ownership.

Currently SDE 2 at Acko, he owns production reliability for live insurance systems, running root-cause analysis and shipping fixes under pressure.

At mPokket, he designed and built the Astro Lab service from scratch, leading a team of four through design, development, and delivery. He also built a Kafka consumer service handling ten thousand-plus daily calls and a Redis caching layer that cut API latency from 200ms to 25ms for thirty thousand-plus users.

He introduced the outbox pattern at Acko to eliminate event loss during downstream failures, ensuring at-least-once delivery across the system.

Earlier at Ninjacart and Antino, he built APIs, automated document workflows, and integrated payment systems.

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