Hello, I'm

Vikas Yadav

Engineer building reliable systems at scale

Backend & Platform Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed, cloud-native services.

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About

I'm a passionate engineer who loves building robust, scalable systems. With expertise spanning backend development, platform engineering, and site reliability, I help teams deliver exceptional products while maintaining operational excellence.

Currently at Innovaccer, I work on production-grade infrastructure and backend services, focusing on reliability, performance, and security. Previously at Nagarro, I built enterprise applications and implemented CI/CD pipelines.

3+ Years Experience
100+ APIs Built
20% Cost Reduction
30% Faster Incidents

Skills

Languages

Java Python SQL Shell

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2 EKS Lambda S3 RDS

Containers & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Helm

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins GitHub Actions Terraform

Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Redis Elasticsearch

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Logging Alerting

Experience

Platform / SRE Engineer

Innovaccer

Apr 2025 – Present
  • Operate production-grade MongoDB clusters on EKS, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Elasticsearch
  • Designed High Availability and Disaster Recovery strategies for MongoDB on Kubernetes
  • Reduced infrastructure cost by 20% through instance right-sizing and storage tuning
  • Implemented automated backup, restore, and failover workflows for stateful services
  • Set up monitoring, alerts, and dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana

DevOps / Backend Engineer

Nagarro

May 2022 – Apr 2025
  • Designed and implemented 100+ RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 15%
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for AWS environments
  • Built Kafka-based event processing for real-time, asynchronous communication
  • Improved request throughput by 20-25% using Redis caching and async patterns

Projects

Production Kubernetes Platform

Designed and operated Kubernetes-based infrastructure for microservices and stateful workloads. Implemented monitoring, alerting, and backup strategies to ensure reliability and availability.

Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana

Document Processing Platform

Designed backend microservices to ingest, process, and query large document datasets. Optimized data models and indexing to achieve 150-180ms average query latency.

Java Docker CI/CD

Real-Time Event Processing

Implemented a Kafka-based backend service to process real-time events and trigger downstream notifications. Handled retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios for message reliability.

Kafka Spring Boot Redis

Cloud Cost Optimization

Automated non-production environment scheduling and resource cleanup using scripts and AWS tooling, resulting in measurable infrastructure cost savings.

AWS Python Automation

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology for Handicapped

Kanpur, India • 2018 – 2022 • GPA: 8.13

Achievements

🏆 Received recognition for exceptional contributions to the MSIL project
🥇 Ranked in the Top 2% in CodeKaze competition (Coding Ninjas)
🎓 Awarded District Meritorious Student recognition