# vaibhav somkuwar

> Software Engineer | MS in CS @ Santa Clara University

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vaibhavsomkuwar

I am a software engineer with 3+ years of experience building reliable, cloud native distributed systems and high performance microservices, improving deployment speed by 60% and reducing infrastructure costs by 35%. I specialize in solving complex backend and infrastructure problems with a strong focus on scalability, observability, and fault tolerant system design using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.

## Work Experience
### Software Developer @ SCU Frugal Innovation Hub
Jan 2025 – Present | United States
• Built Java/Spring Boot backend on AWS for a bilingual EdTech platform serving 50K+ users
• Achieved 99% uptime through IAM controls, workload isolation, and async design trade-offs
• Cut mean time to recovery by 40% with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

### Software Developer @ cadandcart.com
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Pune District
• Built checkout APIs with Spring Boot and React handling 10,000+ daily sessions 
• Implemented distributed locks and idempotency keys for order integrity
• Cut p95 latency by 20% through query optimization and async pipelines

### Software Developer @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pune District
• Scaled payment microservices on AWS processing 2M+ daily API calls (40% throughput gain, 30% latency reduction)
• Hardened reliability with retry logic, Redis caching, circuit breakers, and async handlers
• Automated CI/CD with Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins, cutting releases from 2 hours to 15 minutes


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Santa Clara University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electronic Engineering
Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaibhavsomkuwar14

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Last updated: 2026-04-05