Sankalp Jain

Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and scaling distributed, data-intensive backend systems. Strong expertise in Python, Java, AWS, microservices, and high-throughput data pipelines. Experienced in driving architecture, performance optimization, reliability, and cross-team technical initiatives, including building LLM-powered agentic workflows.

Proven track record of solving complex distributed systems problems and providing technical leadership across architecture, production systems, and engineering practices.

Senior Software Engineer at Sense (2022-05 – Present)

• Drove architecture and technical direction for a multi-tenant ATS integration platform supporting high-revenue enterprise customers, defining scalable integration, data processing, and writeback patterns.
• Designed and built an agentic workflow using LLMs to automate config migrations for data transformation systems.
• Architected and owned a high-throughput distributed data pipeline processing 600M+ events/month with p95 processing latency below 5 minutes, driving scalability, reliability, and performance improvements.
• Designed asynchronous note writeback pipeline improving latency by 10x and significantly increasing throughput. The system currently handles 70M+ writebacks every month.
• Migrated our Object writebacks system from a single node service to a distributed hazelcast cluster now processing 2M+ writebacks per month with less than a minute latency.
• Ensured reliable deployments across multiple AWS regions, validating service configurations and stability in a multi-tenant environment
• Provided technical leadership across architecture and implementation, mentoring engineers, driving design decisions, reviewing technical approaches, and leading resolution of complex production issues.
• Partnered with the TRM team to extend Sense platform workflows, driving cross-team architecture and integration changes that expanded platform capabilities and adoption.

Senior Software Engineer at Hirevue (2020-10 – 2022-05)

• Development of integrations for various applicant tracking systems.
• Migrated data processing workflows from synchronous application processing to a distributed Celery worker cluster, introducing workload-based task routing (e.g., long-running resume processing vs lightweight tasks) to improve throughput and reduce latency
• Handling analytics on candidate data for employer dashboard.

Senior Software Engineer at Goibibo (2015-04 – 2020-10)

• Designed and built scalable data pipelines using Apache Flink, with data replication to Elasticsearch to support analytics and reporting.
• Led development and migration of INGO-MMT mobile applications to React Native, improving development efficiency and maintainability.
• Led migration of high-traffic booking and search APIs to support the new GST taxation system under strict regulatory deadlines, ensuring compliance without impacting booking flow or system performance.
• Implemented document and image storage on AWS S3 and built onboarding workflows that improved scalability and reduced onboarding effort.
• Built high-scale inventory backend services handling 100K+ bookings/day and millions of search requests.
• Mentored junior engineers and onboarded new team members, contributing to team productivity and code quality.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Makemytrip (2013-07 – 2015-03)

• Development of test cases and ensure integration with CI/CD pipelines. Wrote tests in Selenium and Python.
• AB testing framework to identify potential issues and observe user behavior.

Bachelor of Technology – Indraprastha University (2009-08 – 2013-05)

AISSCE – St. Mary's Inter College (2008)