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Deepak
Satuluri

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Senior Backend Engineer for teams that need backend systems to scale, stay reliable, and ship fast. I build production APIs, Kafka pipelines, platform tooling, and cloud-native services that reduce operational pain instead of creating more of it. Actively contributing to open source — real tools, real repos, real impact.

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Why Me
Founding Engineer
Worked as a founding engineer and built core platform capability with real ownership, not narrow ticket execution.
Scale Signal
50K+
Hands-on with event pipelines, caching layers, observability, and production reliability under real traffic.
Hiring Signal
Remote
Reliable across IST, US, and EU collaboration rhythms with clear async communication and follow-through.
Open Source
Active
Actively contributing to open source — building real tools, shipping to GitHub, and collaborating in the community.
4+Years Exp
50K+Events/sec
40%Cost Saved
10xAPI Latency
22+Policy Types
OSSActive Contributor
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// Fast decision support

Why Deepak Gets an Interview

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Scale Lens
Production backend engineer with real throughput exposure.

Deepak has already worked on the kind of systems that force engineers to care about performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational clarity.

50K+Events/sec pipelines
10xLatency improvement
40%Infra cost reduction
  • Built Kafka pipelines with Grafana lag dashboards and alert-driven recovery patterns.
  • Implemented multi-layer caching and optimized APIs for high-traffic workloads.
  • Worked across cloud storage, encryption, Kubernetes and gateway infrastructure in production.

// What I work with

Technical Skills

Core proficiency by domain

Java 17 + Spring Boot95%
Apache Kafka90%
API Gateway (Kong / Apigee)92%
Multi-cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure)80%
PostgreSQL + MongoDB + Redis85%
Docker + Kubernetes78%
Python (FastAPI / Flask)75%

Full technology stack — hover to highlight

// Career timeline

Experience

Dec 2024 – Present
Senior Backend Engineer
APIwiz · Bengaluru
Current Role
  • Engineered Apiwiz Gateway (native API gateway) and API Builder — workflow automation platform for policy execution across distributed services
  • Designed a data archival pipeline routing 60-day-old records to cold storage (S3 / GCP / Azure Blob)40% cost reduction
  • Built Kafka pipelines processing 50,000+ events/second with real-time Grafana consumer lag dashboards
  • Implemented AES/RSA encryption for secure multi-cloud data integrations
  • OAuth + JWT with multi-layer caching (Caffeine → Redis → PostgreSQL) for high-traffic endpoints
  • Kubernetes deployments with health checks, resource limits, rolling updateszero-downtime
Aug 2023 – Nov 2024
Software Engineer II
Align Technology · Hyderabad
  • Contributed to IDS healthcare platform and API Portfolio Management for patient records
  • Optimized MongoDB aggregation pipelines — identified N+1 patterns, applied schema denormalizationsignificant query speedup
  • Built Doctor Subscription Program and Geox Region module extending core platform capabilities
  • Mockito unit testing, integration, regression, and UAT cycles for production reliability
Apr 2022 – Jul 2023
Software Engineer I
APIwiz · Remote
Founding Engineer (1 of 5)
  • Helped shape platform foundation and core API infrastructure from scratch
  • Led the Apigee-to-Kong migration, overhauling API governance and reducing vendor lock-in
  • Reduced API response times>10s → <1s through routing and query optimization
  • Operated across IST / US / EU time zones in distributed async team environments

// Interactive demo

Live Kafka Pipeline Simulator

Real-time visualization of the event streaming infrastructure I built at APIwiz. Tune the knobs.

Event throughput — real-time chart
[INFO] Kafka pipeline initializing...
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Events/sec
0ms
Consumer Lag
0
Total Processed
5
Active Topics
Producer rate 25,000 events/s
Partitions 12
Lag alert threshold 500ms
Simulate fault conditions
if consumer_lag > threshold
→ alert: lag_critical
→ scale: consumer_group++
→ notify: grafana_webhook

// What I've built

Projects

RemoteScope
🔭

Personal remote job aggregator scraping 13+ sources (Remotive, Himalayas, Arc.dev, WeWorkRemotely) using Jsoup + OkHttp. Filtered REST API with salary, stack, experience, and remote eligibility filters. Daily cron scheduler + Caffeine caching.

JavaSpring BootKafkaRedisPostgreSQLJsoup
13+Sources
DailySync
RESTAPI
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Resume Screening Pipeline
🤖

AI-powered screening system using Google Gemini AI. Candidates submit against job descriptions; scoring pipeline ranks profiles and triggers automated HR email alerts via Kafka + RabbitMQ for async processing.

JavaSpring BootKafkaRabbitMQPostgreSQLGemini AI
AIScoring
AsyncProcessing
AutoNotify
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apiwiz-cli
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kubectl-style CLI built with Java 17 + Picocli for API Gateway lifecycle management — virtual hosts, proxies, targets, runtime config. JSON-driven dynamic command registry using CommandSpec.wrapWithoutInspection() for runtime subcommand registration.

Java 17PicocliSpring BootMaven Shade
kubectlStyle
5Commands
JSONDriven
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Project Spotlight
RemoteScope

A backend-heavy aggregation engine built to normalize noisy remote-job data into a usable daily feed with filters, sync orchestration, and caching.

Java Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL
What It Signals
  • Can ingest from multiple unstable sources and normalize messy inputs.
  • Can design APIs around actual user filters instead of toy CRUD endpoints.
  • Can combine scheduling, caching and persistence into a coherent backend workflow.

// Let's build something

Open to Remote Roles

Actively looking — global companies welcome

If your team needs a backend engineer who can own production systems, reason about scale, and work reliably in a distributed setup, I’m ready to step in.

Why Hire Deepak
Strong backend ownership without the enterprise drag.

I’m most valuable in teams that want someone who can understand product needs quickly, design solid backend systems, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity. I work best where reliability matters, speed matters, and hand-holding does not.

✉ satulurideepak4@gmail.com in LinkedIn ⎇ GitHub ☎ +91 70959 18889

B.Tech Computer Science · IIIT Andhra Pradesh · 2022 · GPA 7.94/10