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Moksh Verma

Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building distributed systems at scale. Specialized in identity unification, real-time data pipelines, and cloud cost optimization at companies serving hundreds of millions of users.

Experience

Expedia Group

SDE-II

Apr 2024 - Present · Gurugram

  • Unified 380M+ multi-brand user identities into a single identity system across Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo
  • Migrated Tier-1 Kafka infrastructure to Confluent Cloud with zero downtime and zero event loss
  • Reduced cloud costs by $200K+/year by redesigning ETL pipelines from scratch
  • Decomposed a core monolith into an independently deployable Kotlin + Postgres microservice
  • Accelerated delivery by ~30% using AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)

Radio Mirchi

Software Developer

Aug 2022 - Mar 2024 · Noida

Built backend services powering Radio Mirchi's digital platform — Podcasts, Videos, Articles, and Shorts.

  • Increased user engagement by ~30% by designing a scalable Automated Push Notification module using Spark and Kafka
  • Reduced login time and errors by 50% with a secure JWT-based login handoff from mobile app to webview
  • Increased business revenue by 10% by building a high-performance Ads Rule Engine using Redis and MongoDB

Gaana (Acq. by Radio Mirchi)

Software Developer

Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · Noida

  • Boosted music playout from homepage by 40% for 50M Daily Active Users with personalized recommendation algorithms
  • Reduced API response time by 35% with Aerospike caching strategies at high-latency points
  • Solved Cold Start and Artist Similarity challenges through POCs that shipped to production

EPAM Systems

Junior Software Engineer

Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 · Pune

  • Developed secure RESTful APIs using Singleton and Factory design patterns, improving data security and scalability

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

JavaKotlinPythonSpring Boot

Databases & Caching

MySQLPostgresMongoDBCassandraRedisAerospikeElasticsearchMS SQLHive

Streaming & Data

Apache KafkaKStreamsApache SparkConfluent Cloud

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSVaultDockerKubernetes

AI & Dev Tooling

Claude CodeCursorGitHub CopilotGit

Methodologies

AgileTDDCI/CD

Projects

Auto-Terminal

A command-line tool that converts natural language to shell commands using AI.

PythonAILLM
View on GitHub

Song Hit Predictor 5000

A tool to predict whether a song has the potential to take off.

PythonMachine LearningNLP
View on GitHub

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, B.Tech (CSE)

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Delhi, India · 2016 - 2020