Open to Senior & Lead Engineering Roles

Punith C KLead EngineerBackend ArchitectAI Systems

Building scalable distributed systems, AI-powered automation platforms, and cloud-native backend architectures. 8+ years shipping production systems at scale.

Bengaluru, India
Punith C K, Lead Software Engineer

Currently

Lead Backend Engineer @ Intuit

Exp

8+ yrs

GolangAWSKubernetesKafkaAI EngineeringDistributed SystemsLangChainTerraformPostgreSQLOpenTelemetryGolangAWSKubernetesKafkaAI EngineeringDistributed SystemsLangChainTerraformPostgreSQLOpenTelemetry
About

Backend systems, designed to scale.

8+ years of building distributed backend platforms across billing, observability, AI automation, and cloud-native infrastructure.

I'm a Lead Software Engineer specialising in Golang-based distributed systems, scalable microservices, and cloud-native backend architecture. I've spent the last eight years shipping production systems — from real-time event-driven impact scoring at Intuit, to Veracode observability at Accion Labs, to billing platforms at Exotel.

I care about clean architecture, strong observability, and pragmatic AI. I work fluently across AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Terraform, and modern monitoring stacks like Datadog and Grafana — and I genuinely enjoy mentoring the engineers around me.

8+

Years Experience

Lead Engineer

Role

Multiple

Production Systems

Distributed

Specialty

Backend Architecture

Designing scalable Golang microservices and event-driven systems handling high-throughput workloads.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins — production-grade observability and deployment automation.

AI Engineering

Building AI-powered automation platforms with LangChain and OpenTelemetry-driven observability.

Technical Leadership

Mentoring engineers, architecting systems, and leading high-impact engineering initiatives.

Experience

A timeline of building & shipping.

From production billing platforms to AI-powered automation — each role focused on scale, reliability, and ownership.

Aug 2025 – May 2026

Intuit

Software Developer 3

  • Real-time event-driven impact scoring platform
  • Migrated high-throughput pipelines from Kafka to Amazon SQS
  • Built AI-powered automation platform leveraging LangChain
  • OpenTelemetry distributed tracing across services
  • High-throughput observability synchronization services

Apr 2024 – Jul 2025

Accion Labs

Lead Software Engineer — Backend

  • Veracode CLI observability implementation
  • AWS SQS + Datadog integration for scan telemetry
  • Scan visualization dashboard and GitOps compliance
  • CI/CD automation with Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD
  • Mentored junior engineers and led architecture reviews

Apr 2021 – Jan 2024

Exotel

Senior Software Developer

  • Billing system automation across multiple regions
  • ERP integration with Microsoft Business Central
  • Credit limit system preventing revenue leakage
  • Expansion of billing platform into UAE market
  • Low-balance notification system at scale

Jul 2018 – Apr 2021

Exotel

Software Developer

  • Built scalable billing systems in Golang
  • Payment gateway integrations and reconciliation
  • Production backend services, end-to-end ownership
  • Cloud and DevOps engineering across AWS
Skills

The stack I build with.

Battle-tested tools across backend, cloud, AI, and observability — chosen for scale and reliability.

Backend Engineering

GolangREST APIsMicroservicesDistributed SystemsBackend Architecture

Cloud & DevOps

AWSKubernetesDockerTerraformJenkinsGitLab CI/CDArgoCDLinux

AI Engineering

LangChainAI AutomationOpenTelemetryObservability AI

Messaging & Databases

KafkaAmazon SQSPostgreSQLMySQLElasticsearchClickHouse

Monitoring & Observability

DatadogGrafanaPrometheusKibanaWavefront

Leadership & Architecture

Technical LeadershipMentoringSystem DesignArchitecture DesignAgile
Featured Projects

Systems I've designed & shipped.

A selection of architecture-focused work across backend, billing, observability, and AI automation.

AI-Powered Automation Platform

End-to-end automation platform leveraging LLMs and LangChain for intelligent workflow orchestration across engineering tooling.

Impact · Cut manual ops effort and accelerated incident response across distributed services.

GolangLangChainOpenTelemetryKubernetes

Real-Time Impact Scoring Platform

Event-driven scoring engine that ingests high-throughput streams and computes real-time impact metrics for downstream consumers.

Impact · Sub-second scoring at scale, powering business-critical decisioning at Intuit.

GolangKafkaAmazon SQSAWS

Kafka → Amazon SQS Migration

Architected and executed a zero-downtime migration of high-throughput pipelines, redesigning consumer semantics and back-pressure.

Impact · Reduced operational overhead and infra cost while preserving throughput SLAs.

KafkaAmazon SQSGolangTerraform

Credit Limit System

Built a credit-limit and exposure system to govern customer spend across the Exotel platform with strong consistency.

Impact · Prevented revenue leakage; protected platform from runaway usage.

GolangPostgreSQLMicroservices

MS Business Central Integration

Integrated billing and ERP flows with Microsoft Business Central for finance-grade reconciliation across geographies.

Impact · Enabled UAE market expansion with audited financial pipelines.

GolangREST APIsERPAWS

Low Balance Notification System

High-fan-out notification engine that monitors balances in real time and triggers contextual customer alerts.

Impact · Improved customer retention and reduced involuntary service interruptions.

GolangSQSMicroservices

Recurring Payment Automation

Automated recurring billing and retry pipelines with idempotent payment-gateway integrations.

Impact · Higher payment success rates and lower manual intervention.

GolangPayment GatewaysPostgreSQL

Custom Invoice Automation

Templated invoice generation, dispatch, and reconciliation with auditable lineage across customer cohorts.

Impact · Replaced manual finance ops with reliable, auditable automation.

GolangMySQLAWS
Education & Leadership

Foundations & beyond the code.

BE — Electronics & Communication

UBDT College of Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Graduated 2017

Spot Awards

Recognised for delivery and impact across multiple production releases.

Toastmasters Leadership

Served as President, VP Education, and Mentor; area-level evaluation contest finalist.

Mentoring

Mentored junior developers and led cross-team architecture reviews.

Engineering Initiatives

Led high-impact technical initiatives spanning observability, billing, and AI automation.

Contact

Let's build something at scale.

Open to senior / lead backend roles, distributed systems work, and AI engineering collaborations.