Software Engineer, Scapia
Bangalore: Apr 2022 - May 2024
Built the backend from scratch for the Scapia hotels vertical.
Integrated APIs of other suppliers and developed supplier selection logic and onboarded 5.5 lakh+ hotels
Improved Search Results Page (SRP) ranking by optimizing multiple ranking factors. Resulted in reduced paginated SRP calls and improved overall conversion time. Scaled the system from 10 RPM to 60+ RPM with good browse experience of our hotel catalogue.
Extensively used New Relic for API latency tracking and improvements. Created dashboards for API 5xx tracking.
Developed pipelines for email communication and PDF generation in a generic way for Hotel, Flight, and Credit card verticals.
Automated scripts to simplify common tasks and reduce manual effort like making hotels live or removing live hotels, fetching ratings necessary for ranking from third-party providers.
Tools: Spring Boot, Gradle, Java, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS, Python, JavaScript, New Relic, Docker.