ARNAB KUNDU
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Lead Software Engineer with a passion for continuous learning and solving complex problems. Experienced in designing, developing, and deploying robust, scalable, and cloud-native solutions. Proven leadership in driving architectural decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering high-performance systems across distributed environments. Strong focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices to accelerate product development and reliability.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer/Sr. Software Engineer
Lowes's
06.2020 - Current
- Led the design and deployment of Apache Airflow on Kubernetes to orchestrate complex data pipelines, improving scalability, reliability, and resource efficiency with 30k+ tasks running daily across multiple environments in a active-active state.
- Implemented Helm-based deployments of Airflow with custom DAG storage, secrets management, and CI/CD integration for streamlined pipeline development and promotion.
- Configured Hight throughput systems , with kubernetes executors, enabling dynamic worker scaling and high availability.
- Integrated Airflow with enterprise tools including Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring, ELK stack for logging, and for OIDC authentication and RBAC.
- Automated Airflow DAG testing and deployment workflows using GitOps practices with git sub-systems and ArgoCD.
- Mentored junior engineers and collaborated cross-functionally with data engineering and platform teams to drive adoption of Airflow for workflow automation.
- Worked on setting up data pipeline for BI and data visualizing.
- Worked in a team of 5 for setting up and scaling multipoint synchronized IoT system for upstream and downstream communication from stores edges to our datacenter.
- Worked on building an in house RUM tool to provide actionable items to the end-user.
- Improved DevOps across deployment and testing strategies and application monitoring.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to work on ETL systems.
Sr. Software Engineer
Halaplay
10.2018 - 06.2020
- Designed and built a highly available and robustly scalable leaderboard service to handle data ingestion variances of more than 0.5M entries a minute and p95 of less than 10ms
- Designed and built a ETL pipeline for database change log streams for visualization and analytics
- Set up resilient monitoring, error detection, alerting and anomaly detection across the entire platform
- Designed and built a distributed, fault tolerant, checkpoint compatible and rollback compliant winning prize computation system
- Designed a system for auxiliary services to run on a serverless framework for cost optimization
- Designed and built fraud detection system for flagging anomalous platform behavior as well as fraud transaction detection
- Halaplay Infrastructure to achieve a p95 of less than 35ms across all transactions.
Sr. Software Engineer
Yourstory Media
09.2017 - 10.2018
- Built a Progressive Web App for the main website with a team of 4, implemented deployment methodologies and setup monitoring
- We undertook massive migration projects to make all applications future ready in terms of infrastructure and making our applications modular.
- We took the platform to scale at the rate of 15k RPM with an average latency of 22ms with some APIs working at 8ms latency
- Worked heavily on optimization of every entity on the platform as page speed and page rank were of the utmost priority
Software Developer
Moengage
08.2015 - 10.2017
- Worked on the Client Side Dashboard app on Angular JS, NodeJS, Pyramid.
- Worked on building scalable systems for user engagement through cross platform notifications and mobile engagement.
- Worked on building stream processing and pipelining systems with high degrees of scaling and fault tolerance to handle multiple services and maintenance systems.
- Built intelligence mechanism which incorporated adaptive learning to manage and handle user life cycle flow.
- Worked in a team of 3 to create a realtime reactive smart trigger based system which scaled for 8k events per sec.
Education
B. Tech. - Computer Science
Srm University
Chennai, India06-2015
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Python
- React web and Native
- NodeJS and Javascript
- Querying Language
- Spark
- Java
- AWS/GCP
- Infrastructure architect
- Performance optimization
Accomplishments
- SRM SEARCH ENGINE (Research Project)
- LOGITECH (Internship) (6 months)
- TATA (TCS) - TISCO (Internship) (3 months)
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer/Sr. Software Engineer
Lowes's
06.2020 - Current
Sr. Software Engineer
Halaplay
10.2018 - 06.2020
Sr. Software Engineer
Yourstory Media
09.2017 - 10.2018
Software Developer
Moengage
08.2015 - 10.2017
B. Tech. - Computer Science
Srm University
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