Eshwar Koka
Engineering Lead · Backend Development · Distributed Systems · Cloud‑Native Architectures
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Summary

Engineering Lead with 6.5+ years of experience in backend development, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures. Deep expertise in Python and AWS, building scalable, high‑performance services across multiple start‑ups.

Skills

Programming & Frameworks

Python Flask Django JavaScript TypeScript Node.js NestJS GraphQL

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite MongoDB Couchbase Amazon DynamoDB Redis Amazon RDS

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS IAM EC2 Lambda Fargate S3 ELB VPC Route 53 EBS EFS CloudFront

Containerization & IaC

Docker Kubernetes ECS EKS Pulumi Terraform

Experience

Circuitry — Engineering Lead

Apr 2024 – Present · Hyderabad, India
  • Reduced API latency by 90% (30s → 3s) through architecture optimization and performance tuning.
  • Leading backend development and system architecture for scalable services serving 10K+ daily users.
  • Specializing in distributed systems and cloud‑native architectures on AWS with Python.

Hoichoi (Client of CAW Studios) — SDE‑2

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 · Remote (India)
  • Developed core GraphQL APIs for an OTT platform serving 1M+ users, improving response times by 40%.
  • Stack: TypeScript, NestJS, NX, MongoDB, GraphQL, ECR, ECS, Terraform.

Flip Spaces (Client of CAW Studios) — SDE‑2

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023 · Remote (India)
  • Built backend APIs for a construction/interior design platform handling 50K+ daily transactions with 99.9% uptime.
  • Optimized Couchbase queries, reducing response times by 35%.

Jio Haptik (Client of CAW Studios) — SDE‑2

Apr 2020 – Oct 2022 · Remote (India)
  • Architected conversational AI chatbots using Django, handling 1Cr+ messages with 99.5% delivery success.
  • Integrated Haptik with WhatsApp & Salesforce, improving delivery efficiency by 25%.

CAW Studios — SDE‑2

Mar 2020 – Present · Hyderabad, India
  • Built a Slack bot integrating Slack with Google Calendar, automating leave workflows for 500+ employees.

Franklin Templeton — Graduate Trainee Technology

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · Hyderabad, India
  • Developed Python automation test scripts, cutting manual testing effort by 60% for the India Digital Eco project.

Projects

Real‑Time Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews

Machine Learning · Python · Web Crawling · IMDB · Classification

Built a crawler to fetch IMDB reviews and classify them as positive/negative with an overall score.

GitHub Repo →

Text Classification on Medical Dataset

Machine Learning · Python · NLP · Text Processing · Classification

Preprocessed data (stopword removal, stemming), removed multi‑label documents, and trained a classifier.

GitHub Repo →

Education & Certifications

BE, Computer Science — CBIT, Hyderabad

2014 – 2018 · CGPA: 8.14/10

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate