Sumit B.

Founding Engineer @ Unbound

About

Top of the Mind: - Preference for Collaborative Environment: - Likes working with individuals who value knowledge sharing and problem-solving discussions. - Aims to emulate the qualities of like-minded individuals. - Open to learning from others and engaging in productive discussions. - Blog Writing on Career Learning: - Plans to write blogs documenting significant career learnings. - Covers topics related to both career-based and technical insights. - Aims to share valuable experiences and knowledge with others. - Challenging Tasks and Personal Growth: - Acknowledges the confidence-building effect of challenging tasks. - Believes in continuous personal growth through overcoming challenges. - Seeks out tasks that provide opportunities for skill development and self-improvement. - Collaboration: - Proficiency in Working Alone and in Teams: - Demonstrates ability to work independently and productively. - Excels in fostering a positive and collaborative team environment. - Values teamwork and contributes to a harmonious working atmosphere. - Work/Life Balance: - Balanced Approach to Learning: - Recognises the importance of learning without sacrificing well-being. - Avoids overwork and inadequate compensation for personal growth. - Emphasises the need for personal time to acquire new skills. - Healthy Lifestyle for Sustainable Development: - Advocates for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. - Highlights the significance of focusing on various aspects of life. - Strives for a sustainable and holistic approach to personal development. Career Goals in Next 5 Years: - Broadening Knowledge in Multiple Domains: - Aims to expand knowledge in technology, product development, and entrepreneurship. - Seeks diverse experiences and insights across different areas. - Embraces a multidisciplinary approach to personal growth. - Sharpening Skills in Specific Areas: - Focuses on specific technical skills such as cloud computing, infrastructure, and architecture. - Aims to enhance proficiency in product-related areas like customer acquisition, retention, and monetization. - Strives for a deep understanding and expertise in chosen domains. Exploring Entrepreneurship and Startups: - Interested in working on a startup idea. - Wishes to delve into the entrepreneurial realm and gain firsthand experience. - Open to opportunities for creativity, innovation, and business development.

Country

India

City

Jaipur

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Apache Kafka, Golang, Interviewing, Grafana, Prometheus.io, Software Documentation, AWS Neptune, Go (Programming Language), Gremlin Query Language, Opencypher Query Language, Neo4j, Redis, Docker, Django REST Framework, Pulumi, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Airflow, Django, C++, Back-End Web Development

Experience

Founding Engineer

Unbound

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

- Plugins for Claude Code / Cursor with setup skill - Optimising AI Discovery Flows - K8s setup for development infra

Software Engineer II

Abnormal AI

2024-4 - 2026-2 · 1 yr 11 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Led opensearch decomposition efforts for team, migrated usecases for all tenants to new opensearch cluster with almost 30 Billion messages - Led FedRAMP validation for Graymail to enable listing in the federal marketplace. - Outlook parity with gmail - Golang service level refactor from scratch and Migrating 200+ tenants (Serving 2500qps) - Owned Dwell time metrics projects which led to tracking and reducing dwell time for end users (reduced by ~30%) - Token based Rate limiting for email provider’s API endpoints which led to fewer errors

Software Engineer I

Abnormal AI

2023-6 - 2024-4 · 11 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Developed the Graymail feature enablement flow for Gsuite - Gsuite API integration for Graymail - Improved upstream dwell time by improving observability by persisting metrics

Engineering Team

Fam

2021-6 - 2023-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

* Contact Sync Microservice: Developed a golang service with AWS Neptune as Graph DB + Redis for caching and Monitoring setup on grafana dashboard. * Worked on Data Pipeline (Explored Tech Stack - Airflow, Pulumi, AWS : Lambda, SQS, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge) * Python In-memory Queue: A Client maintaining a queue and a consumer thread consuming the tasks in queue. * Dynamic notifications - Use [notification template + dynamic entities] to create user notifications (Push/SMS/In-app Alerts). * Push to prod pipeline : A systematic way to make campaigns live for users with a single click of button. * Worked on Onboarding flow from backend. * Worked on social challenge feature to boost referral activity by 15-20% in tier I cities, which resulted in better social circle of users available on app. * Actively Interviewing candidates for Backend Engineer and Intern role. * Mentoring Interns on features and projects.

Engineering Intern

Fam

2020-10 - 2021-6 · 9 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

* Worked on creating a dynamic contextual card. * Created a new reward type for users, where user can burn coins to avail the reward. * Integrated IDFC API endpoints to automate recon process. * Worked as POC with customer team to resolve bugs and identify them in production. * Worked on backend to introduce story feature in app. * Refactored the code to catch exceptions with tags on sentry.

EID Intern

GE HealthCare

2020-6 - 2020-8 · 3 mos

* Worked on GraphQL wrappers for REST APIs * Developed Unit tests for GraphQL with 85%+ coverage

Software Developer Intern

Zenithec Techware

2019-12 - 2020-4 · 5 mos

* Managed the project and team. * Developed php scripts to generate styled pdfs. * Developed various components in React.js. * Researched extensively on dynamic Pdf generation.

Google Code-In Mentor

Google Code-in

2019-12 - 2020-2 · 3 mos

* Created tasks for students. * Reviewed backend PRs. * Worked with the backend team and had weekly scrum meetings.

Web Development Intern

TheCodeWork

2018-12 - 2019-2 · 3 mos

* Developed basic CRUD APIs (REST API) * Enhanced search engine using filters, recommendations using user skills. * Learnt to use RawSQL in Django, about full text search.