Rishabh Patel

Took end-to-end ownership of the Notification Microservice, leveraging AWS SQS with long polling for asynchronous background processing and implementing Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) with idempotency keys to guarantee 100% exactly-once delivery. Owned the development of 5+ FastAPI microservices, utilizing Docker containers and Alembic migrations to standardize schema tracking across isolated local and staging environments. Optimized backend retrieval pipelines and database query execution logic for enterprise APIs, improving system fault tolerance and reducing JSON payload processing latency by 30%.

Software Development Engineer Intern - ControlShiftAI - Sydney, Australia (Remote)

(2025-07 - 2025-08)

• Took end-to-end ownership of the Notification Microservice, leveraging AWS SQS with long polling for asynchronous background processing and implementing Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) with idempotency keys to guarantee 100% exactly-once delivery.
• Owned the development of 5+ FastAPI microservices, utilizing Docker containers and Alembic migrations to standardize schema tracking across isolated local and staging environments.
• Optimized backend retrieval pipelines and database query execution logic for enterprise APIs, improving system fault tolerance and reducing JSON payload processing latency by 30%.

Backend Developer Intern - Software Incubator - Ghaziabad, U.P.

(2024-11 - 2025-02)

• Architected secure Authentication APIs utilizing Django REST Framework (DRF) and JWT, establishing reliable session management for 500+ global beta users.
• Implemented robust token rotation algorithms and decoupled SMTP-based recovery flows, significantly reducing main-thread blocking and optimizing account recovery response times by 35%.

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science - Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (2023-10 - 2027-05)