Daksh Verma

Senior Backend Engineer with 4+ years of experience building production backend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and FastAPI. Experienced in microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems on AWS, with strong background in SaaS and financial workflows, Terraform, performance optimization, observability, and production reliability.

Software Developer at Techwondoe India (2025-01 – Present)

• Led migration of a large monolithic Python application (250k+ LOC) into scalable FastAPI microservices, improving API response times by 30–40% while enabling independent service ownership, deployment, and scaling.
• Designed and evolved 15+ REST APIs across distributed services, maintaining backward compatibility and clear data models while reducing integration issues by 25%.
• Migrated the organization's API gateway ecosystem from Apigee to Node.js and TypeScript microservices, reducing platform costs by 40% while improving API observability, logging, and production debugging.
• Provisioned and maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) across 3+ environments, supporting high-availability systems and reducing manual configuration effort by 50%.
• Improved production reliability through structured logging, monitoring, and incident debugging workflows, reducing MTTR by 30% and helping maintain 99.9% system uptime.
• Supported junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and debugging sessions, contributing to code quality and onboarding.

Software Developer at Hcode Technologies (2023-01 – 2024-12)

• Designed and shipped Node.js and FastAPI backend services supporting production financial workflows, translating business requirements into secure APIs and scalable distributed services.
• Built event-driven data processing pipelines using AWS Lambda and SQS, asynchronously processing and routing high-volume workloads while improving processing time by 75%.
• Developed low-latency distributed services using Node.js, Redis, and Kafka, supporting asynchronous event processing and scalable workloads under high concurrency.
• Collaborated with product and frontend teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable backend solutions.
• Optimized MongoDB queries and indexing strategies, reducing API latency by 35%.

Associate Node.js Developer at Celebal Technologies (2022-02 – 2022-12)

• Developed and maintained RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express to process high-volume operational data across 15 manufacturing plants.
• Designed backend services and data flows supporting real-time dashboards used for operational monitoring.
• Integrated third-party and internal REST APIs, handling external response formats, error scenarios, and data transformations to improve system interoperability and reliability.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science – Kurukshetra University (2018-08 – 2022-05)