Hello, I'mSourav Saha

Software Engineer

Building scalable backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and cloud-native applications.

Sourav Saha
Introduction

About Me

Software Engineer with 4 years of experience designing and developing scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs. Skilled in microservices architecture, AWS, and OCI cloud platforms. Strong computer science fundamentals and achieved an All India Rank of 116 (top 0.1% nationally) in GATE Computer Science.

4

Years Experience

IIT KGP

M.Tech CS

AIR 116

GATE CS (top 0.1% nationally)

Career

Experience

Building production systems at scale

Oracle

Software Development Engineer 2

2022 – Present

Designed and developed backend services and APIs for Oracle Health IPA, automating prior authorization workflows using FHIR-based healthcare services. Built APIs for OCI Compute C4PO page, enabling real-time monitoring of BM and VM instance statuses across regions.

JavaSpring BootGoREST APIsRedisDockerKubernetes

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Mar '22 – Jun '23

Designed and implemented a Work Allocation and Orchestration platform for Product Safety and Compliance. Developed APIs to search, assign, and track work items, and contributed to cross-region marketplace expansion for ASINs.

JavaAWSDynamoDBReactREST APIsJUnit/Mockito

HCL Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jun '21 – Mar '22

Designed and developed MES software tools for Digital Industries 4.0 to improve manufacturing operations and optimize workflows.

C++PL/SQL
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Projects

Featured Projects

Systems I've designed and built

Featured
Distributed Systems

Distributed Cache System

Designed and implemented a distributed caching layer with consistent hashing, replication, and eviction policies for high-throughput backend services.

GogRPCConsistent HashingLRURaft+1
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Cloud Infrastructure

OCI Compute WorkRequest Service

Designed and built an asynchronous work tracking service for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, enabling reliable long-running operation management across distributed compute resources.

JavaGoTerraformOCIREST APIs+1
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Backend Systems

Amazon Work Allocation System

Built a scalable work allocation engine for Amazon's Product Safety & Compliance team, distributing compliance review tasks across global teams with intelligent routing and priority management.

JavaAWSDynamoDBSQSLambda+2
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Blog

Latest Writing

Technical articles and engineering insights

Go

Why I Chose Go for My Side Projects

After years of writing Java professionally, I started using Go for personal projects. Here's why Go's simplicity, concurrency model, and deployment story won me over for backend side projects.

#go#java#backend
May 10, 20243 min read
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Distributed Systems

Building Distributed Services at Oracle OCI

Lessons learned from building and operating distributed backend services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, covering service architecture, operational patterns, and scaling challenges.

#distributed-systems#cloud#oci
March 15, 20243 min read
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System Design

Designing Work Allocation Systems at Amazon Scale

A deep dive into designing work allocation and task routing systems that handle millions of decisions per month, with lessons from building Amazon's Product Safety compliance platform.

#system-design#aws#distributed-systems
November 20, 20233 min read
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Books

Currently Reading

Books on my nightstand

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

The definitive guide to building reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems. Covers everything from database internals to distributed consensus.

Distributed Systems

Let's build something together

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, and engineering challenges.

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