Ashwin Kulkarni
Software Engineer 2 at Stripe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Kulkarni is a seasoned backend engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and is currently a Software Engineer 2 at Stripe in Bengaluru. He spent multiple years at IBM Cloud driving Event Notifications—architecting and shipping 20+ Go microservices that handled billions of events and improved throughput and latency through thoughtful caching, ORM optimization, and distributed schedulers. Ashwin combines systems-level performance tuning (60% throughput gains, 50% latency reductions) with pragmatic DevOps practices—Helm, container hardening, and ingress/egress policies—to deliver reliable services with six-nines-style uptime. He also contributes to and maintains real-time in-memory projects like DiceDB and mentors engineers on career growth, reflecting a blend of deep technical craft and people-focused impact. Notably, his work spans the full lifecycle from gateway/control-plane design to email security (SMTP/OAuth/SpamAssassin) for production-grade notification delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati10+2 Science (PCM), 10+2 Science (PCM) at Saraswati Bhuvan College of Science, AurangabadBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Government College of Engineering Aurangabad
Github Skills (100)
authentication10
storage-engine10
sdk10
golang10
credentials10
database10
in-memory10
trust10
rule10
key-management10
quantum-computing9
identity9
messaging9
end-to-end-encryption9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AshwinKul28/dice
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
A drop-in replacement of Redis with SQL-based realtime reactivity.
Contributions:76 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
AshwinKul28/AshwinKul28.github.io
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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