Kaushik Yelne

About Kaushik Yelne

- 2021 - Bachelor of Technology TLDR: Engineering at Dubai Ports World | SDE 1 | ex - Airtel | | Backend Developer | Winner SIH’19 | Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MicroServices Architecture, Rest API, Backend, System Design, SQLI’m a Backend Software Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable systems using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and modern cloud infrastructure. I specialize in transforming complex, legacy workflows into real-time, event-driven microservices that improve reliability, reduce latency, and scale globally.At DP World, I engineered 9+ microservices across logistics, customs, taxation, and billing reducing manual effort by 80%+, cutting system latency by 90%, and improving invoice throughput by 45%. I’ve worked extensively with distributed systems, Kafka-based architectures, performance tuning, and secure backend design.Previously at Airtel X Labs, I built backend modules that powered real-time operations for field engineers, improving ticket resolution by 30% and ensuring high concurrency reliability for millions of enterprise users.I enjoy solving hard engineering problems, optimizing systems at scale, and building products that create real business impact. Always open to roles in backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform engineering, as well as collaborating on impactful, high-scale products.

Experience

1. Sde 1

   DP World

   Mar 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Engineered 9+ microservices across customs, taxation, billing, and shipping using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, driving automation and scalability in logistics and finance systems.• Automated Customs Filing for Australia, Indonesia, and Europe, reducing customs filing time by 60% and manual effort by 80%+. Replaced a legacy 15-min scheduler with Kafka-based real-time updates, cutting latency by 90% and infra load by 35%.• Built a high-performance Taxation Service to support complex rules across 50+ jurisdictions, achieving 99.9% accuracy and reducing tax computation time by 16.5%.• Led Billing Module Migration from a monolith application to a Spring Boot microservice, right from designing DB schema to system architecture; reduced downtime by 70% and increased invoice throughput by 45%.• Launched Domestic & Value-Added Services, integrating Kafka for real-time processing and enhancing system observability to reduce incident response time by 40%.• Tech-Stack: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis

Education

• Indian Institute of Information Technology Nagpur

  Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2017 — 2021

• Hislop College, Civil lines Nagpur

  High School Diploma, Computer Science

• Blue Diamond High School

  SSC

  2013 — 2014