Summary
Atharva Kulkarni is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 8 years of experience building backend systems and distributed architectures, currently driving backend work at Razorpay after a stint leading game backend infrastructure at Joyride Games. He has hands‑on expertise in Go, Java, JavaScript, Python and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform), and a track record of shipping low‑latency microservices powering features like leaderboards, auctions, IAPs and quests. Atharva has integrated MongoDB and Kafka into production platforms, authored internal libraries for rate‑limiting and A/B testing, and led seamless backend integrations for acquired titles—demonstrating both systems design and pragmatic engineering. An IIT Bhubaneswar dual‑degree graduate, he also brings early experience in computer vision and automation, which informs a data‑driven approach to product problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives (Dual Degree), B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives (Dual Degree) at IIT Bhubaneswar
English, Hindi, Marathi