Ricky512227 - Overview


About Me

Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems. Currently developing customer-facing chat and agent systems at Dropbox, processing 28K+ daily messages. Specialised in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Current Role: Full-Stack Developer @ Dropbox
Core Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python, Golang, Kubernetes, AWS
Focus Areas: Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, Microservices


Tech Stack

Languages & Frameworks

Python Go TypeScript JavaScript React jQuery Flask HTML5 CSS3 Bash

Cloud & DevOps

AWS AWS Lambda AWS ECS AWS S3 AWS EC2 Azure Kubernetes Docker Podman Helm Jenkins Linux

APIs & Integration

REST API gRPC OAuth2 JWT Kafka Microservices

Databases

Redis Cassandra PostgreSQL MySQL

Testing & Automation

Jest PyTest PyUnit Robot Framework Postman Swagger JMeter

Monitoring & Observability

Grafana Prometheus CloudWatch PagerDuty

API Gateway & Web Servers

Nginx

Tools & Platforms

Git GitHub Bitbucket Jira Confluence ServiceNow

Methodologies & Practices

Agile/Scrum | SAFe | Feature Flags | A/B Testing | CI/CD | Performance Tuning | Cost Optimization


Experience

Full-Stack Developer @ Dropbox | Aug 2023 - Present

Customer-facing chat systems at scale

  • 28K+ daily messages processed through embedded TypeScript/React chat system
  • 20% increase in customer engagement with iframe-based integration
  • 25% faster support response times through Python/Golang API integrations
  • Built real-time event-driven system processing 28K+ daily events
  • Implemented OAuth2/JWT authentication across 15+ API endpoints
  • Deployed services using Bazel build system with feature flags and A/B testing

R&D Engineer @ Nokia | Aug 2020 - Jun 2023

5G core architecture microservices development

  • Developed 5G AUSF/UDM backend features using Python & Golang
  • 30% CPU reduction through Python-to-Golang refactoring
  • Built integrations with Cassandra for distributed subscriber data
  • Deployed cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • 60% reduction in deployment defects through automation
  • Multiple Excellence Awards + Prize winner of Innovative Idea Challenge

Application Engineer @ Amazon | Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

Retail catalog ecosystem enhancement

  • 25-30% improvement in data accuracy through TypeScript ETL optimization
  • 80% reduction in manual reporting with AWS Lambda automation
  • 2-3x faster vendor data ingestion using Golang RPC services
  • Built scalable workflows with AWS (S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS)

Software Engineer @ Merit Software | Aug 2018 - Nov 2019

Scalable scraping and automation pipeline development

  • Developed 100+ scrapers with 40+ custom extraction scripts
  • Led Python 2 to 3 migration across 120+ scrapers
  • Architected Redis-based task queuing with automated retries
  • Awarded Best Emerging Member

Python Developer @ Comodo Security | Apr 2017 - Aug 2018

CRM, service desk, and automation platform development

  • 50% efficiency improvement through Python automation
  • Developed UI modules/backend for NuCAL and Comodo ONE
  • Strengthened QA with PyUnit test suites, 35% lower defect rates

Personal Projects

EventStreamMonitor

Real-time microservices monitoring platform

  • Kafka-based event streaming for scalable log processing
  • Real-time error tracking and filtering
  • Live monitoring dashboard with Redis caching
  • Microservices architecture with Docker

MedshipmentTrackingTool

Medical shipment tracking automation

  • Automated Excel processing and web scraping
  • Real-time IPS tracking data extraction
  • GUI dashboard with scheduled execution
  • Location enhancement with zip code lookup

MiniUdmAsyncErrorTracing

Go-based async error tracing system

  • High-performance error tracking
  • Asynchronous error handling
  • Cloud-native architecture

GB2PR_PROJECT

AWS Data Engineering Project

  • AWS S3 & EMR integration
  • Big data processing pipelines
  • Python-based ETL workflows

AutmationScripts-me

Python automation scripts

  • Workflow optimization tools
  • Task automation utilities
  • Personal productivity enhancements

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India (2016)


Areas of Focus

  • Scalable real-time systems architecture
  • Microservices and event-driven design patterns
  • Cloud-native development and container orchestration
  • Performance optimization and system reliability

Contact

LinkedIn Email GitHub

Available for: Consulting | Technical Leadership | Architecture Design | System Optimization