Santanu Kar
Senior Software Engineer at Netskope
India
Summary
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Top SchoolSantanu Kar is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling backend systems for high-traffic consumer platforms. He has driven large-scale reliability and performance improvements at Flipkart—leading projects that scaled systems to handle tens of thousands of concurrent agents, increased API throughput by 30%, and cut offline batch processing times from 15–20 minutes to under a minute. Santanu is experienced across Java microservices, messaging (Apache Pulsar/Kafka), Redis/MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes and cloud data platforms, and he pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship and hiring responsibilities. He recently joined Netskope, bringing deep expertise in fault-tolerant messaging, cross-DC replication, and at-least-once delivery patterns. Beyond technical wins, he has a track record of delivering rapid product launches (e.g., Flipkart’s Hyperlocal 'Minutes') and driving multi-team coordination under tight timelines.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Odisha University of Technology and Research
Github Skills (19)
messaging10
pubsub10
streaming10
pulsar9
messaging-system9
queuing9
event-streaming9
apache-pulsar9
apache8
expression-language6
player4
javascript3
kafka3
java3
nodejs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SantanuKar43/flipkart-interview-parser
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
SantanuKar43/HostelMate
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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