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Vivek Mankonda

Senior Software Engineer | 8+ years

Vivek Mankonda working remotely with mountains in the background

Distributed Systems | Product Engineering

Based in India | Open to Relocation

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Selected Impact

1M+ requests/min

Core backend systems at Gameskraft

17 days to 3 days

Medical-checkup turnaround at Acko

0-to-1 Banking + Brokerage Platform

Built proprietary trading algorithms, fraud detection, and a unified ledger across banking and brokerage at FinchMoney.

37% lower MTTR

Production reliability at New Relic

Selected Engineering Work

Key systems, distributed architecture, and 0-to-1 products shipped in production.

0-to-1 Travel Platform

Footsteps Space

Problem / Context: 0-to-1 product built independently across Flutter mobile application, TypeScript / Express backend, PostgreSQL / Supabase, and Next.js web with maps, authentication, and deployment.
Built / Designed: Engineered FOTA: offline-first, battery-aware geolocation engine with adaptive GPS sampling, local persistence, and deferred synchronization.
Result: Approximately 100 users, with 85%+ outside my personal network.
FlutterTypeScriptExpressPostgreSQLSupabaseNext.jsFOTA / Geolocation
Live Platform
Matchmaking & Core Backend Services

Gameskraft: High-Scale Tournament Systems

Problem / Context: Matchmaking and core backend systems handling extreme concurrency and live tournament traffic.
Built / Designed: Optimized cache and recovery paths, eliminated CPU and memory bottlenecks across services, and restructured AWS infrastructure.
Result: 1M+ requests/min during 215K-participant Guinness World Record tournament; 38% lower AWS infrastructure cost.
JavaSpring CloudAWSHigh ConcurrencyRedisDistributed Systems
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Fintech & Brokerage Architecture

FinchMoney: Financial Systems & Trading

Problem / Context: US banking and investment platform built from 0-to-1 with KYC, pooled investing, rebalancing, and fractional allocation.
Built / Designed: Integrated FIX / QuickFIX brokerage execution with transactional state, idempotent processing, retries, reconciliation, and card authorization separated from asynchronous investment recovery.
Result: Delivered real-time spending with asynchronous market settlements and fractional share accounting.
JavaSpringFIX ProtocolPostgreSQLKafkaFintechIdempotency
Case Study
Distributed Business Process Platform

Acko: Workflow Orchestration

Problem / Context: Long-running insurance workflows with multi-step vendor dependencies and complex state transitions.
Built / Designed: Implemented Camunda with BPMN / DMN for persisted workflow state, retries, timeouts, exception handling, asynchronous vendor integrations, and New Relic / NRQL instrumentation.
Result: Medical-checkup turnaround reduced from 17 days to 3 days.
CamundaBPMN / DMNJavaSpring BootNew RelicDistributed Workflows
Case Study
Cloud Automation & Observability

New Relic: Cloud Provisioning & Reliability

Problem / Context: Enterprise customer telemetry onboarding across thousands of AWS accounts.
Built / Designed: Built Terraform automation across thousands of customer AWS accounts for repeatable and auditable telemetry onboarding, with improved alert routing, dashboards, and runbooks.
Result: MTTR reduced by 37% and automated provisioning across thousands of customer AWS accounts.
TerraformAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeNew RelicObservabilityReliability
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Experience

8+ years across distributed systems, high-scale backend services, fintech, workflow orchestration, and 0-to-1 product delivery.

  1. Independent Software Engineer / Product DeveloperJun 2025 - Present | Remote

    Built and launched Footsteps Space end to end across mobile, backend, data, maps, authentication and deployment.

  2. New RelicSenior Software EngineerJan 2025 - May 2025 | Hyderabad

    Built Terraform-based enterprise AWS onboarding across thousands of customer accounts and improved production reliability, contributing to a 37% reduction in MTTR.

  3. AckoSoftware Development Engineer 3Mar 2023 - Jul 2024 | Bengaluru

    Built long-running workflow systems with Camunda and reduced pre-policy medical-checkup turnaround from 17 days to 3 days.

  4. Gameskraft TechnologiesSenior Software EngineerApr 2022 - Mar 2023 | Bengaluru

    Worked on matchmaking and core backend systems handling 1M+ requests/min during a 215K-participant Guinness World Record tournament while reducing AWS infrastructure spend by 38%.

  5. Needle InnovisionR&D Engineer, BackendOct 2018 - Mar 2022 | Bengaluru

    Built FinchMoney from 0-to-1, including banking, investment, FIX trading, allocation, settlement and reconciliation systems.

  6. ThoughtClan TechnologiesSoftware EngineerAug 2017 - Aug 2018 | Bengaluru

    Delivered enterprise applications across 21 international markets, with performance work contributing to a 30% improvement in site performance.

Technical Profile

Specializations

Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, System Design, Microservices, Workflow Orchestration, Fault Tolerance, Concurrency, Idempotency, 0-to-1 / MVP Development, End-to-End Product Development

Languages & Frameworks

Java, TypeScript, Spring Boot / Spring Cloud, Express.js, Next.js, Flutter

Messaging, APIs & Protocols

Kafka, REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WebSockets, WebRTC, OAuth 2.0 / JWT, FIX / QuickFIX, Camunda (BPMN / DMN)

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Observability

New Relic / NRQL, Grafana, CloudWatch, Service Instrumentation, Metrics / Logs / Traces, Alerting, Production Debugging

Contact

Open to senior software engineering opportunities. Based in India and open to relocation.

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B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

2013 - 2017