Backend Engineer Intern at TinyCare Inc (2025-10 – 2026-02)
Owned and contributed to backend features across bookings, payments, verification, and notifications, supporting a multi-sided marketplace connecting parents and babysitters.
- Designed and implemented asynchronous workflows using Celery with Redis, offloading time-sensitive operations (notifications, emails, payment events) from request-response cycles and improving system responsiveness by ~30–40%.
- Applied event-driven architecture patterns, structuring backend flows where core services enqueue background tasks to enable non-blocking processing and downstream system reactions.
- Integrated third-party services including Stripe (payments), Amazon Web Services S3 (file storage), and push notification services, implementing retry logic and failure handling to ensure reliability in external communications.
- Designed and built the backend service for an admin dashboard automating user verification, service approvals, and dispute management, reducing manual administrative workload by 40%.
- Collaborated with a fully remote agile team, contributing to feature planning, API design discussions, and iterative product improvements.
