Achintya Kumar
SDE 2 @ Disney+ Hotstar | Ex Amazon, Samsung
- Role
- Sde 2 at Disney Hotstar
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Achintya Kumar
I’m currently working as an SDE-2 at Disney+ Hotstar, where I focus on building high-performance, scalable backend systems that deliver personalized content discovery to millions of users across the platform. I’ve led several high-impact projects, including Watchlist at Scale, Persona Processor migration, and HID/PID migration, directly improving user engagement and system reliability during peak traffic events.Prior to my promotion, I worked as an SDE-1 at Disney+ Hotstar, contributing to features like Continue Watching, fallback pipelines, and engagement-driving content discovery features like Free Badging and “Coming Soon” trays.I began my professional journey as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon, where I worked on the Hotwire Live Data Migration service, helping build zero-downtime data migration service with strong consistency:• Languages: Java, Golang (Go), Python, C/C++• Frameworks & APIs: Spring Boot, Netflix DGS, Express.js, GraphQL• System Design & Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Asynchronous Processing• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, Lambda, Glue, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, Kinesis, SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Harness, GoCD• Data & Messaging: DynamoDB, ScyllaDB (Cassandra), MongoDB, Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow• Monitoring & Testing: Grafana, JUnit, Postman Feel free to connect here or reach out at a••••••••@gmail.com
Experience
Sde 2
Apr 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN
Same team, but bigger responsibilites :)1. Led the migration of the Persona Processors service, Kafka consumers responsible for updating users’ CW data, from ECS to Kubernetes, achieving a 50% reduction in operational costs. Implemented a graceful shutdown mechanism as well to prevent data loss during pod rotations.2. Led the HID/PID migration for the Discovery team as part of an organization-wide initiative to remove PII data for 140M users. Authored technical documentation and ensured a seamless migration without impacting user experience.3. Helped in developing Themed Tray feature for home page, enhancing user experience with different background themes for trays.
Education
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science
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