Summary
Vikash Kumar is a Product Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems primarily in Go, React, and Node.js. He has shipped production features across transport pricing, payments, vouchers, global search and customer support products at GoTo Group, including leading a backend team and building a helpcenter CMS and chatbot from scratch. His background spans e-commerce, device tooling, and financial messaging—having implemented cross-platform Electron apps, Node.js native wrappers, and an ISO8583 simulator—reflecting strong systems and integration skills. Vikash is fluent in cloud-native and infra tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Patroni Postgres) and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis. A practical problem-solver and active blogger at sysleaf.com, he pairs hands-on coding with product thinking to drive revenue and cost-saving initiatives like portal unification and ads monetization. He brings a blend of backend depth and frontend finesse, often surfacing non-obvious operational improvements while mentoring small teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata