Cloud Engineer & Application Support Specialist Resume Title

NEERAJ GHATE

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M.S. Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver (CGPA: 3.7) May 2023 – May 2025

• Coursework: Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Algorithms, Software Architecture, Operating Systems, Deep Learning. B.E Electronics and Telecommunications, Pune University Aug 2018 – May 2022 Skills and Certifications

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, SQL, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, Next.js, REST APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, AWS API Gateway, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS CloudWatch, AWS IAM, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault, Azure App Service, Cosmos DB, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CI/CD Automation, Caching Strategies, Distributed Systems, Observability, System Design, Agile, OpenAI APIs, LLM Integration, Vector Databases Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate Experience

Software Engineer, Sayaam Aug 2025 – Present

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Developing and maintaining backend services using Python and Java supporting core product workflows at production scale

• Working on API development, data processing workflows and performance optimizations reducing request latency by 20%

• Designing and implementing new service components with focus on scalability, reliability and clean system architecture

• Improving system observability, logging and error handling reducing incident detection time in production

• Collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to ship features incrementally with high code quality Software Engineer, RealThingks GmbH July 2022 – July 2023 Pune, India

• Owned development of distributed microservices using Node.js and TypeScript improving system throughput by 30%

• Designed and shipped REST APIs and Kafka-based event workflows powering real-time automation across services

• Developed scalable NoSQL models in DynamoDB and caching layers in Redis reducing read latency by 22%

• Built CI/CD automation using GitLab CI, Docker and Terraform deploying workloads across AWS and Azure environments

• Improved observability with CloudWatch and Azure App Insights lowering MTTR by 25% Data Engineer Intern, Clairvoyant Aug 2021 – Sept 2021 Remote, India

• Developed backend ingestion utilities in Python and Node supporting large-scale workflows across AWS and Azure

• Integrated Kafka pipelines enabling reliable real-time ingestion with improved event consistency

• Implemented schema validation and transformation logic reducing ETL inconsistencies by 15% Full Stack Engineer, Edify Accelerators Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 Remote, India

• Owned full-stack feature delivery across Node.js, TypeScript, React and backend API systems

• Designed authentication flows, routing logic and service-layer abstractions improving response times by 18%

• Implemented Redis caching, rate limiting and distributed session handling supporting high-traffic workloads

• Led design discussions and contributed to architecture decisions across services and frontend modules

• Monitored production systems resolving backend issues and raising system stability benchmarks Projects

NorthBridge Platform – Cloud-Native Backend Architecture Apr 2025 – Oct 2025

• Architected and owned event-driven backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and Kafka

• Built orchestration logic, validation layers and monitoring pipelines improving reliability and request handling efficiency AI Microservice – LLM-Powered Automation Engine Jan 2025 – Mar 2025

• Developed an AI-powered microservice using Python, Node.js and OpenAI APIs for large-scale document intelligence

• Integrated embedding search and vector databases improving semantic retrieval accuracy and reducing manual review time

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