Piyush Kakkar
Lead Backend Engineer at iion
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolPiyush Kakkar is a Lead Backend Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance distributed systems and multi-tenant SaaS platforms. He has led teams to build products with 500K+ downloads and systems handling millions of requests per second with millisecond latencies, while driving substantial infrastructure cost reductions on AWS and GCP. Comfortable across Go, NodeJS, Java, TypeScript and Python, he combines cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes orchestration and performance-first engineering to deliver resilient real-time bidding, streaming and attribution platforms. He has practical GenAI experience—deploying models that cut operational costs without sacrificing accuracy—and a track record of building small, high-impact teams through hands-on hiring and mentorship. Based in Delhi, Piyush blends deep technical execution with product-focused leadership and a habit of optimizing for both throughput and cost.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of TechnologyTraining in Web Development, Training in Web Development at Coding BlocksSenior Secondary, Computer Science, Senior Secondary, Computer Science at Kulachi Hansraj Model School
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (169)
ui-components10
azure-functions10
ckeditor10
language-design10
serverless10
react-components10
lambda10
server-side10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
serverless-framework10
nodejs10
mongodb10
asynchronous10
antd10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
piyushk96/Criminal-Identification-System
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Criminal Identification System using Face detection and recognition.
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
haar-cascadepythontkinterface-recognitionrecognition
piyushk96/resume
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
My Resume built using vue
Contributions:2 releases, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
vuevuejs
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