Shubham Raj

About Shubham Raj

I\'m a Software Engineer specialising in designing, developing, and optimising high-scale distributed backends systems. My work involves end-to-end ownership, from LLD and architecture review to deployment and mentoring-> Simpl (Senior Software Engineer)Developing low-latency backend services in GoLang & Python, leveraging DynamoDB, Postgres, MongoDB, Neptune, and Redis, and building high-throughput pipelines to enable real-time fraud prevention at scale.Key work: system and infra optimisation, fraud detection filters, scraping attack mitigation, enhancing the User Profile system for fraud models and observability improvements with OpenTelemetry-> Simple Viral Games (Founding Engineer)As a Founding Engineer, I took full accountability for the application\'s backend architecture and infrastructure, successfully designing and scaling the platform from scratch to support well over 1 Million downloads and reliably maintain high daily active users. My work included engineering complex multiplayer social features and a detailed coin-based economy, which were crucial drivers for boosting user engagement and retention-> Technical ExpertiseBackend Engineering: GoLang, Python, Java, C++, NodeJS, Kubernetes.Data & Streaming: PostgresDB, DynamoDB, Redis, NeptuneDB, Kafka, ElasticSearch.Cloud/DevOps: AWS, OpenTelemetry, Microservices Architecture, CI/CD-> DSADSA Proficiency: Knight on LeetCode (1957 rating, 1600+ problems solved, 270+ Hards).

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer 2

   Amazon

   Feb 2026 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  12th, PCM

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  10th

• Jadavpur University

  Bachelor of Engineering

  2018 — 2022