Principal Engineer

Bhavesh Kasana

Principal engineer with 11 years of product engineering experience, specializing in event-driven platforms, cloud-native modernization, and high-throughput distributed systems.

West Delhi, Indiabhaveshkasana@gmail.com+91-9910181511
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Experience

A timeline of engineering leadership, platform modernization, and high-scale product delivery.

Principal Engineer

Apollo 247 · Remote

Aug 2021 - Present

  • Stakeholder Engagement - Collaborate with Product, Security, and Leadership teams to translate strategic ideas into technology.
  • Strategy and Architecture: Initiated internal Architecture review culture through dedicated weekly sessions that fostered a robust and resilient Infrastructure and architecture.
  • Critical High-Throughput systems: Championed the design and architecture of payment systems, refund systems, real-time analytics platform, processing over 1 million transactions per day with high resolution edge cases handling.
  • Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship: Defined and evolved engineering vision and full stack architecture across frontend, BFF, and backend tiers. Mentored engineers, ensuring team productivity boost through adoption with best practices in efficient PR reviews, Pair-programming sessions and automated Test driven development.
  • Hands-on Engineering: Authored and maintained over 100,000 lines of Typescript and Python code for multiple Micro-services from Pre-AI Era, resulting in a robust and maintainable software base that served as the foundation for critical business modules.
  • Observability & Reliability - Enforce full-stack observability with Telemetry, Grafana, Kibana, Telegraf and SLO-based engineering.

Platform Engineer

Safe Security · Remote

Jul 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Cross-team collaboration: Implemented comrehensive centralized logging library in sync with ELK for monitoring for Typescript, Python, PHP supporting alerting setup on critical events.
  • Telemetry and Observability: Utilised Telagraf, InfluxDB and Grafana stack for time-series monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting.
  • Code Modernisation: Strategy to migrate the monolith codebase from PHP to TypeScript Microservices for better scalability and maintainability.
  • Cybersecurity Compliance Controls: Implemented programs to assess compliance breach probability and compromise risk.
  • Containerisation and Auto-scaling: Transformed monolith SAFE application to micro-services for efficient development and deployment using docker and kubernetes.
  • Private Network Premises Agents : Developed a self-installable and auto-upgradable SAFE agent for secure data collection and transfer.

Lead Software Engineer

StalkBuyLove · Delhi, India

Nov 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Designed an API gateway around Magento to enable microservice routing and gradual modernization.
  • Built logistics automation workflows spanning recommendations, tracking, RTO, NDR, and redispatches.
  • Created a full-featured return and exchange module for multi-cycle reverse logistics operations.

Senior Software Engineer

Angular Technologies · Gurgaon, India

Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

  • Delivered backend platform features and accelerated feature execution in cross-functional product teams.

Software Engineer

Blinkit · Gurgaon, India

May 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Contributed to core e-commerce engineering workflows and high-availability product components.

Skills

Depth across architecture, cloud platforms, and product engineering fundamentals.

AI

RAGData ChunkingEmbedding GenerationLangChainLangGraphLangSmithVectorDBOpenclaw

Distributed Systems

KafkaRabbitMQEvent-Driven ArchitectureHLDLLD

Cloud Native

AWSGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsible

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScriptJavaPythonNode.jsReactGraphQLREST API

Data & Platform

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchNginx

Engineering Excellence

DSACode ReviewObservabilityPerformance OptimizationGenAICursorAI

Certifications

Credential roadmap aligned with cloud-native and architecture leadership goals.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Linux Foundation

PlannedTarget: 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)

Amazon Web Services

PlannedTarget: 2026

Projects

Selected architecture contributions with measurable impact.

Real-Time Analytics Platform

Built a streaming analytics architecture to process product and operational events at scale.

Sustained 10M+ daily events with low-latency dashboards and actionable insights.

TypeScriptJavaKafkaGCP

Cloud Migration Program

Directed migration of on-prem systems to cloud-native infrastructure patterns.

Reduced infra costs by 30% while improving resilience and deployment velocity.

GCPTerraformKubernetesObservability

Payments Core Services

Designed and delivered critical payments services from scratch for multi-vertical operations.

Enabled reliable high-volume daily transaction processing across Apollo24/7 units.

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLRedis