Senior Backend Engineer New Delhi, India · Open to Europe

Siddharth Singh

5+ years building high-throughput distributed systems in Go — Kafka pipelines, real-time microservices, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Currently Engineering Lead at Pluang. Seeking Senior / Staff roles in Europe.

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Relocation & availability
Actively seeking opportunities in Europe — Germany, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Nordic countries. Open to visa-sponsored roles. Available to relocate within 4–8 weeks of offer.
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Siddharth Singh
Engineering Lead · Pluang
📍New Delhi, India
🎓B.E. Eng. Physics, DTU
🌐English — Professional fluency
✈Open to relocation
5+
Years of experience
60–70%
Kafka payload reduction
Protobuf over JSON
4×
Store scouting speed
Geo automation tool
90%
Manual ops eliminated
Location feasibility
60%
Cert tooling load cut
Internal platform, Go
Technical Skills
Languages
Go (Golang)JavaKotlinPythonSQL
Distributed Systems
Apache KafkaProtobufRedisgRPCTrino
Backend Frameworks
Spring BootREST APIsMicroservicesEvent-Driven
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLRedis Vector Search
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWSGCPDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Patterns & Practices
CQRSDDDCI/CDSystem DesignLLM Integration
Work Experience5 roles · 5 years
Pluang
Jan 2026 – Present
Gurugram · Fintech
Engineering Lead
  • Kafka optimization: Replaced JSON with Protobuf for USA stock pricing tick data. Achieved 60–70% per-message payload reduction. Designed backward-compatible schemas enabling zero-downtime evolution under peak trading loads.
  • News processing engine: Real-time financial news ingestion from multiple providers. LLM integration to cluster articles by ticker and generate summaries. Embeddings stored in Redis Vector Search for semantic retrieval.
GoKafkaProtobufRedis Vector SearchLLM APIsPostgreSQL
Blinkit (Zomato)
Jun 2024 – Jan 2026
Gurugram · Quick Commerce
Software Engineer II
  • Geolocation scouting tool: Automated store location feasibility using geo APIs, logistics filters, and demand forecasting. Scouting speed improved 4×, manual intervention reduced by 90%.
  • Blinkit Velocity app: Go microservice serving real-time brand/manufacturer sales to co-founders (Android + iOS) using Trino as OLAP engine with sub-second query latency.
  • Nexus platform: Go backend + Kotlin Multiplatform mobile app monitoring Store and Cluster Manager KPIs, surfacing broken metrics and triggering corrective workflows.
GoTrinoPostgreSQLKotlin MultiplatformgRPC
Expedia Group
Apr 2021 – Jun 2024
Gurugram · Travel Tech
Software Engineer I → II
  • Certificate management platform (SDE II): Go app for enterprise TLS/SSL cert lifecycle over Venafi — expiry tracking, owner notifications, cost-center grouping. Reduced legacy tooling load by 60%.
  • Cloud cost optimization (SDE II): Integrated AWS Compute Optimizer into Spring Boot service. Benchmarked against legacy engine and rolled out saving alerts to all application owners.
  • AWS resource scanner (SDE I): Spring Boot service scanning EC2, EBS, RDS, ECS across accounts; surfaced mathematical-model-based resource recommendations.
  • Grafana data source (SDE I): Custom Grafana data source microservice federating queries across heterogeneous databases for Performance Engineering.
GoJava / Spring BootAWSVenafiGrafanaPostgreSQL
Tata Health
Aug 2020 – Apr 2021
Bangalore · HealthTech
Associate Programmer
  • Developed features for consumer and doctor-facing mobile apps and web platforms.
  • Optimized Reports Microservice (Spring Boot) — reduced DB load by 30%. Rewrote medicine reminder logic, cutting DB load to near-zero.
Java / Spring BootMySQLREST APIs
Veratech Intelligence
May – Jul 2019
Internship
ML Engineering Intern
  • Trained YOLOv3 model for CAPTCHA detection — 99% accuracy on test set.
  • Published a Python pip package with ML model + database helpers for web scraping pipelines.
PythonYOLOv3Computer Vision
Work Eligibility & Relocation

I am actively seeking opportunities in Europe and fully prepared to relocate. I qualify for skilled worker visa applications across the EU and UK and welcome employer sponsorship.

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Visa sponsorship
Open to EU Blue Card, UK Skilled Worker, and equivalent employer-sponsored visas.
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Relocation readiness
Available to relocate within 4–8 weeks of accepted offer. Flexible on location.
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Language
English — professional fluency (spoken & written). Sole working language throughout career.
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Preferred locations
Germany · Netherlands · Ireland · UK · Sweden · Denmark · Switzerland
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Remote / hybrid / on-site
Open to all arrangements. Comfortable with async collaboration across time zones.
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Notice period
Negotiable. Happy to discuss start dates during the interview process.
Projects4 projects
Healthcare · Computer Vision
Alzmate
Alzheimer's care app using face recognition to help patients identify people in their life. Caretakers can set medication reminders and event alerts.
AndroidCV
GitHub ↗
IoT · Hackathon Winner
Dot and Dash
Eye-blink Morse code system converting short/long blinks to TV channel commands via Firebase. Winner at Dishathon 2018 among 100 teams nationwide.
AndroidFirebaseCV
GitHub ↗
Data Science · ISRO
Gram Panchayat Advisor
KMeans clustering on ISRO geospatial data to rank Indian villages by development need. Android app for citizens to adopt and track village improvements.
MLAndroid
GitHub ↗
Emergency Tech · Azure
DROME
Disaster rescue system with real-time user location tracking and safety status reporting. Web dashboard for authorized rescue personnel. Built on Azure + Firebase.
AndroidAzureFirebase
GitHub ↗
Research
IEEE
Prediction and Forecast for COVID-19 Outbreak in India Based on Enhanced Epidemiological Models
Published · IEEE 2020  ·  View on IEEEXplore ↗
Awards & Achievements
01
Winner — Dishathon 2018 (National Hackathon)
Best team among 100 teams nationwide at broadcasting industry's first-ever hackathon by DishTV. Covered by Zee Business, India.com, Bollywood Life.
Zee BusinessGitHub
02
National Runner-Up + Best Visualizations — EXL EQ 2019
Data analytics competition by EXL Analytics — participants from top 20 universities including IITs, NITs, and DTU.
GitHub
03
Finalist — Smart India Hackathon 2018
Top 15 teams nationally under ISRO department, out of 1500+ teams from across India.
GitHub
Education
2016 – 2020
Delhi Technological University (DTU)
Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Physics
GPA: 7.88 / 10.0
– 2016
Holy Convent Senior Secondary School
Senior Secondary — Science
89%
Get in Touch
Open to new roles in Europe.
Available for Senior / Staff Backend Engineer positions. Happy to discuss relocation support, visa sponsorship, and start dates directly.
✉siddharthsingh16aug@gmail.com inlinkedin.com/in/siddharth-singh ⌥github.com/Siddharth-Singhs ↗siddharth-singhs.github.io
Location
New Delhi, India
Current role
Engineering Lead · Pluang
Open to
Senior / Staff Backend Engineer · Europe
Visa eligibility
EU Blue Card · UK Skilled Worker · equivalents
Research
IEEE Published Author →