Sudesh Kumar

About Sudesh Kumar

Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience designing and building scalable, reliable backend systems and APIs using Python and Go. Brings depth in backend architecture, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, data modeling, API design, Cryptography-aware services, and Secure SDLC practices.Owns backend services end to end—from system and API design through business logic, messaging, data handling, observability, and operations—while leveraging containers, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud services. Actively applies Agentic AI patterns to orchestrate backend workflows, automate remediation, and enforce policy-driven behavior in secure, event driven platforms operating at scale.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Cisco

   May 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Led design and ownership of core backend services for secure-access and cryptographic products, defining APIs, service boundaries, and backward-compatible upgrade paths- Implemented backend logic in Go and Python for distributed systems, handling configuration management, identity resolution, region-aware behavior, and compliance data processing- Built event driven backend workflows to decouple services and support asynchronous processing using Amazon SQS and managed cloud compute- Owned backend state and data flows, defining persistence models and consistency guarantees for security- and compliance-critical data- Applied Agentic AI techniques to orchestrate backend workflows, automate remediation, and coordinate upgrades across deployments.

Education

• University of Delhi

  Bachelor of Technology, Computational Science

  2013 — 2017

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Master of Technology, Computer Engineering

  2018 — 2020