Ex-FAANG Engineer Ex-Agoda Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect

I Help Companies Scale Backend & AI Systems That Handle Millions of Users

Backend Architect · AI Engineer · Technical Consultant

10+
Years Experience
10M+
Users Scaled To

Specialized in backend systems, AI-powered applications, microservices migration, distributed systems, and high-scale architectures.

Arjun Thakur - Lead Backend Engineer

Trusted by Engineering Teams at

Current Availability

✅ Open To

  • ✈️ Temporary Relocation: 2–6 weeks for onboarding
  • 🏠 Remote-First Roles: Global with occasional in-office
  • 📍 Based in: Indore, India
  • 🎯 IC Roles: Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Developer, AI Engineer
  • 👔 Leadership: Director, VP Engineering, Head of Backend
  • 📋 Consulting Projects: Backend, AI, microservices, scaling
  • CTO/VP: Startup tech leadership
  • 🎤 Training & Speaking: System design, Java, AI, Spring AI
  • 🌍 Global Engagements: Any location with remote option

❌ Not Open To

  • 🚫 Permanent relocation
  • 🚫 Full-time office-only roles
  • 🚫 Equity-only compensation

Services: How I Can Help Your Team

Choose the engagement model that fits your needs

Microservices Migration

  • Monolith → microservices transformation
  • Service boundaries, rollout strategy
  • Team training & handoff

Fractional CTO / VP Engineering

  • Technical strategy & governance
  • Team building & mentoring
  • Technology evaluation & leadership

Technical Mentorship & Training

  • Mentorship, code reviews & pairing
  • System design workshops
  • Team capability building

Performance Optimization

  • Latency reduction & throughput improvement
  • DB, API & caching tuning
  • Infrastructure cost optimization

Speaking & Workshops

  • Corporate training & webinars
  • Custom curriculum development
  • Topics: AI, Spring, system design, microservices

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AI Skills

Expert-level proficiency in Spring AI

Practical AI Capabilities

  • Chatbots with memory
  • RAG-powered document intelligence systems
  • Custom AI tools & MCP integrations
  • Multimodal AI applications

What Colleagues Say

Real recommendations from my LinkedIn profile

Past Projects and Case Studies

Amazon Payment Security

Challenge: Protect payment systems from misuse globally.

Solution: Architected throttling system with DynamoDB & Java.

Result: 19.7% lower security impact, 15.3% decrease in coupon misuse.

Agoda A/B Testing Platform

Challenge: High-scale experimentation platform.

Solution: Built using Scala, Cassandra, Kafka.

Result: 22% faster insights.

Coding Bootcamp Launch

Challenge: Launch a new revenue vertical.

Solution: Platform using Java, Spring, AWS.

Result: ₹30 crore revenue in first year.

Wayfair Promotions Migration

Challenge: Zero-downtime microservice migration.

Solution: Java, Spring Security, PostgreSQL, Docker, K8s.

Result: 28% fewer failures.

Facebook Marketplace Integration

Challenge: Fast, reliable integration for 200M+ users.

Solution: New integration service from scratch.

Result: Doubled quote requests.

PhysicsWallah LMS

Challenge: Build LMS at scale.

Solution: Java, Spring, Microservices, AWS.

Result: 15% CI/CD improvement.

Key Skills

Backend Languages & Frameworks: Java 20, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate JPA, Python, Django

AI & Spring AI: Chat clients, prompt engineering, structured outputs, multimodal (images/audio), RAG, tools/function-calling, MCP servers, local models (Ollama, LM Studio), model evaluation, observability

High-Level Design (HLD): Microservices Architecture, Distributed Systems, Scalability

Low-Level Design (LLD): Design Patterns, SOLID Principles, Clean Code

Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL, Redis, DynamoDB, NoSQL

Cloud Computing: AWS Solutions Architect, S3, ECS, IAM, Lambda

DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Linux, Grafana, ELK

Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Leadership & Mentorship: Team Growth, Strategic Planning, Collaboration

Testing: JUnit, Mockito, deterministic & non-deterministic AI testing

AI Assisted Development: GitHub Copilot, SonarQube

Other: Data Structures & Algorithms, REST

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