Summary
Probhonjon Baruah is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable cloud-native systems across e-commerce, finance and healthcare. He has led reliability and real-time diagnosis initiatives—most notably a campaign stability monitoring platform and an alert diagnosis dashboard—while improving throughput and cost-efficiency in high-stakes production environments. His background spans bioinformatics research at A*STAR, where he rewrote scientific tooling in Go to cut compute time by 90% and reduced AWS costs dramatically, to SRE work at TikTok Shop automating alert diagnosis for globally distributed services. Comfortable across the full stack, he has migrated legacy trading platforms to microservices and driven CI/CD and Kubernetes adoption, demonstrating both systems-level depth and product-focused delivery. Based in Japan, he brings a rare blend of research-driven optimization and large-scale operational experience, and his early open-source contributions include work through Google Summer of Code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, General Studies, High School, General Studies at Salt Brook School
Engineer's Degree, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Engineer's Degree, Biosciences and Bioengineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
High School, Science, High School, Science at Salt Brook Academy
English, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali