Ekesh Tayal

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ABOUT EKESH TAYAL

Experienced Backend Engineer currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at MakeMyTrip. I specialize in building scalable distributed systems, optimizing infra costs, and improving system performance under high traffic.Key contributions include: • Designed and implemented LFU-based caching on 15TB Redis, reducing infra costs and ensuring 85% hit ratio with minimal latency impact. • Unified SEO platforms for Goibibo and MMT, resulting in a 68% cost reduction in daily SEO spend. • Reduced CPU usage by 25% through server-side caching and avoiding redundant decompression cycles. • Led rollout of new features like Hourly Booking and Gulf hotel routing via Dubai servers for tax optimization.Tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Python, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS (S3, SQS, CloudWatch), and Microservices architecture.I’m passionate about solving large-scale engineering problems, designing efficient caching strategies, and continuously improving system reliability. Solved 360+ LeetCode problems and hold a 5-star Hackerrank rating in problem-solving.