Farhat Abbas
Principal Engineer at Kickdrum
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolFarhat Abbas is a Principal Engineer with a decade of full-stack experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Kickdrum from Bengaluru. He designs and reviews enterprise-grade, cloud-native systems—AWS, Kubernetes, serverless—and prefers solution-driven technology choices that prioritize scale and performance. Technically versatile, he ships JVM-based microservices (Kotlin/Java, Spring), serverless Node.js backends, React/React-Native front-ends, and mobile apps in Flutter, with strong Postgres and DynamoDB expertise. As an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he combines IaC (Terraform), containerization, and mentoring to raise engineering standards across product and consulting teams. Lately he’s focused on GenAI apps—RAG, LangChain/LangGraph workflows and ReAct agents—bridging rapid MVP delivery with sound system design. His background includes building derivatives and regulatory systems at Goldman Sachs and an early research stint on neural translation for comics, hinting at both enterprise rigor and curiosity-driven experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology SilcharHigh School, Physical Sciences, 94.6%, High School, Physical Sciences, 94.6% at St. Paul's Senior Secondary School
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
phone-number8
formatting8
validation8
libphonenumber8
validating7
nodejs6
aws-lambda6
amazon-web-services6
rule-engine6
amazon-cognito6
java6
ios6
drools6
npm6
typescript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FarhatRV/github-action-test
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Repo to test github actions on specific branches on specific events
Contributions:9 PRs, 54 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
kickdrum/kd-ref-code-backend-app
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Bootstrap server and serverless backend applications
Contributions:18 PRs, 30 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
serverlessbootstrap-serverbackendbootstrapserverless-framework
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