Summary
Atul Ranjan is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 8 years of experience building search, microservices, and scalable backend systems, currently focused on Search & Discovery at Mercari. He combines an IIT Kharagpur engineering foundation with hands-on delivery across startups and research environments, shipping an LLM-driven shopping assistant that improved buyer conversion and engineered a 99.6% reduction in log volume without losing diagnostic coverage. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Python/FastAPI, Go, and frontend SDKs, he has shipped features from web-scraping pipelines to 3D room visualization and incident-investigation automation. Known for pragmatic optimizations—like building a Slack-based SRE Agent that slashed investigation time—he thrives on measurable impact and cross-team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience