Vikas Nyotane
Senior Backend Engineer
vikas.nyotane@example.com +971 50 123 4567 Dubai, UAE vikasnyotane.dev linkedin.com/in/vikasnyotane

About

Backend engineer with 7+ years building scalable APIs and event-driven systems for fintech and travel-tech in the GCC. Strong in PHP/Laravel, Go, PostgreSQL and AWS. Comfortable owning services from design through to on-call.

Experience

Jan 2022 — Present
Dubai, UAE
Senior Backend Engineer
Careem

Led the migration of the rides pricing service from monolith to microservices, cutting p99 latency by 38%. Mentored 4 junior engineers and rolled out the company-wide RFC + design-review process. Owned the on-call rotation; reduced critical incidents by 45% across two quarters.

Jul 2019 — Dec 2021
Dubai, UAE
Backend Engineer
Talabat

Owned the order-routing pipeline; built async retry logic that reduced failed deliveries by 22%. Designed a real-time courier-tracking service in Go handling 80k events/min.

Education

2014 — 2018
Mumbai, India
B.Tech, Computer Science
IIT Bombay

CGPA 8.7/10 · Department merit scholarship

Skills

PHP / Laravel · Go · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · REST & gRPC · Domain-driven design

Languages

English (Fluent) · Hindi (Native) · Arabic (Conversational)