🚀 Software Engineer | Backend & Distributed Systems
📍 Mumbai, India

Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Web2 and Web3.

I work on:

• Backend systems & microservices
• Distributed systems & real-time architectures
• High-performance APIs and data processing systems

I focus on writing clean, reliable code and building systems that scale under real-world traffic and concurrency.

✔️ Strong backend engineering fundamentals
✔️ Experience with microservices & distributed systems
✔️ Building systems for high concurrency & real-time workloads
✔️ Focus on performance, reliability, and scalability
✔️ Ownership of features end-to-end

• Built Kafka-based real-time data pipelines for event processing and analytics
• Designed and scaled microservices deployed on Kubernetes (GCP)
• Reduced API latency by 35–60% through backend and database optimizations
• Developed backend systems using NestJS, Spring Boot, and Kotlin
• Worked on blockchain integrations and transaction workflows
• Improved system reliability under high traffic and concurrency

• Exploring contributions in backend and distributed systems space
• Interested in Kafka, microservices, and infrastructure tooling
• Building and sharing scalable backend systems

• 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tapaswini-kar/
• 🧑‍💻 GitHub: https://github.com/Tapaswini98

I enjoy debugging production issues more than writing UI 😄