Gautam Devaraju, Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru, India, -,-
LINKS
LinkedIn, Github
PROFILE
I am a Senior Backend Engineer with a passion for comprehensively understanding software projects,
encompassing the overall structure, alignment with business priorities, and architectural interactions between
components.
Skilled in various stages of advanced web development, I am dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions while
collaborating effectively in both independent and team-based settings.
E M P L OY M E N T H I S TO RY
Mar 2018 — Present
Senior Backend Engineer & Tech Lead, Freelance
Remote
• Pioneered an innovative CRM (SaaS) solution for dental practices in the UK, expertly guiding a team of
four developers to create a seamless platform that now benefits over 50 practices and efficiently processes
more than 500,000 monthly transactions. ( Stack: Django, Celery, React, Microservices, REST )
• Masterfully crafted a cutting-edge live e-commerce selling platform (SaaS) from the ground up, ingeniously
integrating with Shopify, WordPress, and Shopee to enable real-time engagement between businesses
and their audience, revolutionizing the purchasing experience and delivering unparalleled shopping
interactions. ( Stack: Django, Celery, VueJS, REST)
• Ingeniously developed a Spotify Playlist Management SaaS tool that revolutionizes large playlist portfolio
management, empowering curators to effortlessly add, remove, and schedule songs while allowing them to
concentrate on designing and cultivating exceptional playlists. ( Stack: Django, Celery, React, GraphQL)
• Skillfully constructed an Influencer Collaboration Platform (SaaS) to bridge the gap between influencers
and businesses of all sizes, optimizing communication and collaboration processes, magnifying companies'
ROI, and propelling them towards achieving their marketing objectives. ( Stack: Django, Celery, React )
Jan 2022 — Jun 2023
Backend Engineer, Everstox
Munich
• Proactively pinpointed obstacles in the current development workflow, coding standards, and
underutilized software design patterns and principles, and then expertly crafted a comprehensive Request
for Comments (RFC) for the entire tech team to evaluate, effectively addressing and resolving the
identified concerns.
• Significantly accelerated the development process by ingeniously designing and developing a bespoke
connector SDK as a key implementation component of the aforementioned RFC. This innovation
guaranteed standardized behavior, uniform coding patterns, and a reliable code architecture, remarkably
reducing the time required to build a new connector from one month to just one week.
• Fostered consistent behavior throughout the application and streamlined logics by cleverly conceiving a
signal and receiver pattern for the queue manager, ultimately obviating the need for direct engagement
with the queue manager library.
May 2021 — Jan 2022
Backend Engineer, AppEvolve
Frankfurt am Main
• Enhanced the CRM application's test coverage from 25% to 80% by incorporating both unit and
functional tests, ensuring its reliability and performance. ( Stack: Django, Celery, React )
• Successfully transitioned a legacy trading Order Management System (OMS) to a scalable, multi-tenant
SaaS application, improving its adaptability and efficiency. ( Stack: Django, Celery, React )
Jan 2020 — May 2021
Forensic Analyst, Ernst & Young
Frankfurt am Main
• Performed eDiscovery on national and international engagements that includes data
collection/preservation, processing and ongoing support for deliverable reports
• Showcased advanced Relativity usage, client facing review management and ongoing 1st & 2nd level review
support.
• Implemented and improved accuracy of custom reports by building advanced scripts using NUIX API.
• Developed various small internal tools for the team to reduce the time involved in manual steps using C#,
Python and Ruby programming.
• Supported manager's initiative in development of an advanced NUIX processing workflow; built a fully
working GUI that enables data processing and automated ingestion of data into Relativity.
• Other skills demonstrated: Advanced SQL, VBA, MS Access, MS Excel
Jul 2016 — Jul 2017
Forensic Analyst, Ernst & Young
Manchester
E D U C AT I O N
Oct 2014 — Jun 2018
Computer Security, De Montfort University Leicester
Leicester
Projects & Publications:
• Social Engineering Project– Designed social engineering attack using OSINT tools and intense research
on the target.
• The Impact of Cloud Technology on Security and Privacy (Research Paper) - This paper contains a
research of the impact of cloud technology on security and privacy.
• Social Network Inference (Hybrid (Development & Research) Dissertation Project) - This project involves
research on various social network inference algorithms and develop a live application that implements the
algorithm.
SKILLS
L A N G UAG E S
Python
Expert
GraphQL
Experienced
JavaScript
Expert
SQL
Experienced
Django
Expert
Node.js
Experienced
Celery
Expert
CI/CD
Experienced
PostgresSQL
Expert
DevOps/CloudOps
Experienced
Microservices
Expert
Terraform
Experienced
System Design
Expert
AWS/GCP/Azure
Experienced
API Design
Expert
Docker
Experienced
English
Native speaker
Kannada
Native speaker
Hindi
COURSES
Aug 2013
Certified Information Security Expert, Innobuzz
HOBBIES
Chess, Football
REFERENCES
References available upon request
Highly proficient
