{
  "name": "Sumit Verma",
  "role": "Software Development Engineer",
  "company": "Bajaj Finserv Health",
  "location": "Ayodhya, India",
  "summary": "Backend and distributed systems. I take services the whole way — from the data model and the API contract, through the pipelines and the infrastructure, to the traces that tell me what broke at 3am.",
  "impact": [
    [
      "Kafka migration",
      "delivery latency",
      "-80%"
    ],
    [
      "NGINX rate limiting",
      "abusive traffic",
      "-30%"
    ],
    [
      "Redis auth module",
      "request latency",
      "-45%"
    ]
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "role": "Software Development Engineer",
      "org": "Bajaj Finserv Health",
      "when": "Jan 2026 — Present",
      "points": [
        "Built a FHIR/HL7 integration with Qatar's Ministry of Public Health end to end, from connectivity setup through production, enabling cross-border eligibility and enrollment.",
        "Moved a scheduler-based notification system with up to 20s delay onto a Kafka event architecture, cutting delivery latency 80%+ with resilient retries.",
        "Stood up a unified observability platform on ClickStack (OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, HyperDX), replacing per-service log digging with one place to look.",
        "Shipped an NGINX HTTPS gateway with IP and token rate limiting, cutting abusive traffic ~30% and closing off public exposure.",
        "Wrote a reusable MFA and PIN auth module backed by Redis, taking 40-50% off request latency."
      ]
    },
    {
      "role": "Backend Engineer",
      "org": "Stealth Startup, UK",
      "when": "Aug 2025 — Dec 2025",
      "points": [
        "Led the backend from 0 to 1, owning delivery from the first service through to production.",
        "Built a communications microservice handling email, SMS, WhatsApp and OTP asynchronously, taking that work off the request path so each channel scales on its own.",
        "Built search and filtering on Elasticsearch, with a caching layer in front of slow third-party APIs so their latency stopped being the user's problem.",
        "Added rate limiting and DDoS mitigation at both the reverse proxy and the service layer.",
        "Moved media storage to AWS S3 with client-side uploads, so large files never touch the application servers.",
        "Ran Prometheus and Grafana in containers for real-time metrics, and wrote the backup and database disaster-recovery strategy."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Plinth",
      "year": "2026",
      "live": "plinthpages.me",
      "line": "AI website builder that ships real React.",
      "detail": "Turns plain English into type-checked React, verifies every change before you see it, and rolls back on failure. You keep the code, the history and a one-click edge deploy.",
      "tags": [
        "TypeScript",
        "React",
        "LLM codegen",
        "Edge deploy"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/sumitverma77/plinth-platform",
      "short": "AI site builder that ships React"
    },
    {
      "name": "InfraPilot",
      "year": "2026",
      "line": "Terraform modules for highly available AWS.",
      "detail": "Provisions VPCs, load balancers and ECS Fargate clusters. GitHub Actions authenticates with keyless OIDC instead of long-lived secrets, with S3 state and DynamoDB locking.",
      "tags": [
        "Terraform",
        "ECS Fargate",
        "OIDC",
        "GitHub Actions"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/sumitverma77/infra-pilot-iac",
      "short": "Terraform for highly available AWS"
    },
    {
      "name": "Book It Now",
      "year": "2025",
      "line": "Cinema seat booking that survives a rush.",
      "detail": "Concurrent seat reservation without double-booking, event-driven notifications and webhook-based payment handling.",
      "tags": [
        "Spring Boot",
        "Concurrency",
        "Webhooks",
        "Events"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/sumitverma77/book-it-now",
      "short": "Cinema booking that survives a rush"
    },
    {
      "name": "Agri Weather",
      "year": "2025",
      "line": "Weather alerts for farmers without smartphones.",
      "detail": "Turns forecast data into plain bilingual summaries with an LLM, then delivers them over SMS, WhatsApp and voice call in Hindi and English.",
      "tags": [
        "Spring Boot",
        "Twilio",
        "LLM",
        "MySQL"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/sumitverma77/agri-weather-alert",
      "short": "Weather alerts over SMS and voice"
    }
  ],
  "stack": {
    "Languages": [
      "Java",
      "C++",
      "Python",
      "SQL"
    ],
    "Backend": [
      "Spring Boot",
      "Kafka",
      "REST",
      "JWT",
      "JUnit 5"
    ],
    "Data": [
      "PostgreSQL",
      "MySQL",
      "MongoDB",
      "Redis",
      "Elasticsearch",
      "ClickHouse"
    ],
    "Cloud": [
      "AWS",
      "Azure",
      "OCI",
      "Docker",
      "Terraform",
      "GitHub Actions",
      "NGINX",
      "Linux"
    ],
    "AWS": [
      "EC2",
      "ECS",
      "Fargate",
      "ECR",
      "Lambda",
      "S3",
      "RDS",
      "DynamoDB",
      "DocumentDB",
      "ElastiCache",
      "ALB",
      "API Gateway",
      "VPC"
    ],
    "Observability": [
      "OpenTelemetry",
      "Prometheus",
      "Grafana",
      "ClickStack"
    ],
    "AI": [
      "LLM pipelines",
      "AI agents",
      "RAG"
    ]
  },
  "hire": {
    "open": "Open to backend & platform roles",
    "pitch": "If you're working on a hard backend problem — throughput, consistency, an event pipeline that keeps falling over — I'd like to hear about it.",
    "based": "Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India"
  },
  "links": {
    "web": "sumitverma77.github.io",
    "github": "github.com/sumitverma77",
    "linkedin": "linkedin.com/in/sumit-verma-",
    "leetcode": "leetcode.com/u/sumit_verma_77",
    "email": "987sumitverma@gmail.com"
  }
}