KEDARNATH K BHAT

As an SDE 2, I design and implement complex data models and API layers, and lead engineering teams to deliver high-impact features for enterprise clients.

• Designed and implemented a comprehensive data model and API layer, integrating with Google Workspace APIs to enable thousands of Account Executives to reduce research and preparation time from days to minutes.
• Developed a context-aware, extensible intelligent chatbot layer with robust guardrails, providing real-time interactions and live meeting guidance with sub-5 second latency, a critical product feature.
• Led and mentored a team of 3 engineers, overseeing task delegation, code reviews, and engineering best practices to ensure high code quality, accelerate feature delivery, and achieve on-time execution under tight deadlines.
• Delivered high-impact features for a key enterprise customer, exceeding expectations and strengthening long-term partnership value.

As a core team member, I designed and crafted high-level designs for scalable microservices within the Real-Time Leaderboard and Matchmaker Platforms, enhancing user experience and system resilience.

• Proposed and implemented an optimized design for the Real-Time Leaderboard Platform, reducing lobby load latency from 60 ms to 30 ms (50% reduction) through efficient caching techniques and asynchronous programming.
• Owned the development of Join/Withdraw and Settlement functionality, engineering automated recovery mechanisms for interrupted settlements and achieving a 100% success rate across all scenarios.
• Boosted system resilience by strategically implementing the circuit-breaker pattern across microservices, ensuring fault tolerance and stability.
• Contributed to the architecture and implemented critical matchmaking and backfilling algorithms for Poker, significantly enhancing user experience and game integrity.
• Implemented low-level design for a deduplication lock mechanism, effectively protecting backend systems from flooding and ensuring data integrity.

Engineered a robust ETL solution to facilitate real-time data streaming and enhance analytics for Niramai Health Analytics.

• Engineered a robust ETL solution facilitating seamless real-time streaming of MySQL database changes to ClickHouse via CDC, significantly enhancing data accessibility.
• Reduced aggregation query response times by over 5 seconds by optimizing the ETL process and integrating with ClickHouse.
• Integrated the data pipeline with Grafana, enabling insightful analytics and advanced data visualization for better decision-making.

Developed an LLM-powered assistant designed to streamline user onboarding by integrating with JIRA, Google Calendar, and Prometheus.