Ashishkumar Pandey

Solutions Architect & Backend Engineer

Mumbai, IndiaAvailable to start immediatelyOpen to remote

Nearly 9 years in software, most recently on AWS serverless: OTT streaming backends, IoT and streaming pipelines, and REST APIs held to sub-30ms p95 latency. Currently building agentic AI on AWS: agent architectures on serverless and Amazon EKS, evaluation, observability, and governance.

Ashishkumar Pandey

Expertise

Backend & APIs

I build microservices and REST APIs with sub-30ms p95 latency, handle OAuth 2.0 and OIDC auth flows, and implement idempotency and rate limiting. Mostly with Node.js and TypeScript.

Cloud & Serverless

I work extensively with AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudSearch, Kinesis, and MediaConvert. Cost optimization is always on my radar.

Streaming & Media/OTT

I've architected an end-to-end OTT platform serving 1.2 million paid subscribers, with media ingestion, transcoding pipelines, content protection, and Akamai CDN integration.

Agentic AI on AWS

I'm building agent architectures on AWS serverless and Amazon EKS, with a focus on evaluation and observability, agent authentication/authorisation and logging design, and governance.

IoT & Data Pipelines

I design MQTT and HTTPS ingestion for tens of thousands of devices with secure provisioning and multi-tenant isolation, near real-time pipelines on Kinesis/MSK, and time-series and lakehouse storage on Timestream, InfluxDB, S3 and Athena.

Experience

Career Break & Upskilling

Independent

Feb 2026 – Present

  • Took a career break for personal commitments from Feb to Jul 2026, and returned to full-time engineering in Aug 2026.
  • Joined AWS BeSA Cohort 10, "Agentic AI: POC to Production on AWS", an AWS-mentored program on agent architectures, security, observability and governance.
  • Passed AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) and completed six courses on agent design, serverless and Amazon EKS deployment, evaluation, observability, auth and logging, and AI governance.

Solutions Architect

KVell Dynamics

Aug 2024 – Jan 2026

  • Architected IoT ingestion for 30,000+ smart meters and sensors over MQTT and HTTPS, with device registry, secure provisioning, multi-tenant data isolation and schema governance.
  • Built near real-time streaming pipelines on AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, Amazon MSK (Kafka), Lambda and Apache Spark, with windowed aggregations, late-event handling and idempotent writes.
  • Designed time-series and lakehouse storage on Amazon Timestream, InfluxDB and S3, with partitioning, SQL analytics in Glue and Athena, and lifecycle and retention policies.
  • Delivered analytics and alerting on consumption, anomalies and outages through Grafana and QuickSight dashboards and notification workflows.
  • Implemented end-to-end security with X.509 certificates, TLS, AWS IAM and RBAC, plus device shadow and twin patterns and observability for high availability.

Technical Architect & Lead Backend Engineer

Planet Marathi Group

Feb 2021 – Aug 2024

  • Architected a web and mobile OTT platform serving 1.2 million paid subscribers globally, and single-handedly built its microservices backend on AWS serverless in Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Designed REST APIs with rate limiting and idempotency that consistently met sub-30ms p95 latency, improving user experience and conversions.
  • Maintained zero downtime for 18+ months through CI/CD with blue/green deployments, resilient design and proactive observability.
  • Authored media ingestion specs for studios and built template-driven MediaConvert pipelines for high job fan-out; integrated Akamai CDN, Razorpay, Twilio and 2Factor.
  • Replaced a high-cost authentication vendor with in-house OAuth 2.0 and OIDC authentication and authorization, consolidating vendors and reducing third-party spend.
  • Advised the team and the wider organization on engineering practice: problem analysis, informed technical decisions and automating routine work.

Programmer Analyst

BrandMusiq

Aug 2019 – Jun 2020

  • Built a React and Redux Progressive Web App (PWA) using IndexedDB for offline audio caching and seamless playback.
  • Developed a Ruby on Rails API serving tracks and metadata to the PWA.

Software Development Engineer

Valuefy Solutions Private Limited

Sep 2018 – Aug 2019

  • Independently built OCR-based KYC verification, alongside face verification with liveness detection and secure payment and SMS integrations.
  • Mentored 3–4 engineers, authored build and deploy guidelines, and trained the team on Git, ES6, Node.js and Linux.
  • Drafted RFP documents covering the technical and architectural scope of proposals.

Software Engineer

BrandMusiq

Jun 2017 – Aug 2018

  • Built soniqspaces, a multi-track music player for Android and iOS in React Native, with a cross-platform desktop version in Electron.
  • Developed production features in ES6, React, React Native, Electron and Node.js across the mobile and desktop apps.

Lead Developer

Bridge Properties

Oct 2016 – Apr 2017

  • Designed the complete technology stack for the company website and its API.
  • Designed a CRM system holding client data history across projects.

Junior Software Engineer

FreeWave Tech-Solutions Private Limited

Nov 2015 – Jan 2016

  • Built full-stack Ruby on Rails web applications and hybrid Ionic mobile apps, and tuned virtual server performance as part of DevOps duties.

Support Technician

Node Outlet

Aug 2015 – Nov 2015

  • Managed physical and virtual servers remotely for hosting clients.
  • Resolved client hosting issues as the first line of support.

Projects

Planet Marathi OTT Platform

Web and mobile OTT platform serving 1.2 million paid subscribers globally. Microservices backend on AWS serverless in Node.js and TypeScript: API Gateway and Lambda for compute, DynamoDB for state, Akamai CDN for global distribution, template-driven MediaConvert pipelines for transcoding, and an in-house OIDC and OAuth 2.0 auth system. Sub-30ms p95 APIs and 18+ months without downtime.

AWSLambdaDynamoDBAPI GatewayMediaConvertAkamaiOAuth 2.0Node.jsTypeScript

IoT Ingestion Platform

MQTT and HTTPS ingestion for 30,000+ smart meters and sensors, with device registry, secure provisioning and multi-tenant data isolation. Streaming pipelines on IoT Core, Kinesis/MSK and Lambda/Spark; time-series and lakehouse storage with Timestream, S3 and Athena; dashboards and alerting with Grafana and QuickSight.

MQTTIoT CoreKinesisMSKLambdaTimestreamGlueAthenaGrafanaQuickSight

BrandMusiq PWA

React and Redux frontend with IndexedDB for offline audio caching. Rails API backend. Works seamlessly online and offline.

ReactReduxIndexedDBRuby on RailsPWA

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Node.jsTypeScriptJavaScript/ES6RubySQLRuby on RailsReactReduxReact NativeElectron

AWS

LambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBKinesisMediaConvertIoT CoreS3CloudSearchTimestreamGlueAthenaMSK

AI & Agents

Agentic AI on AWS (serverless & EKS)Agent designAgent evaluation & observabilityAI governanceAgent authN/authZ & logging

Domains

MicroservicesServerless architectureOTT/media pipelinesIoT ingestionStreaming & near real-timeTime-series & lakehouseMulti-tenant data isolationHigh-performance APIs

Integrations

OAuth 2.0OIDCRESTWebhooksRazorpayTwilio2FactorAkamai CDN

DevOps

p95 performance budgetsLoggingMonitoringAlertingCI/CDBlue/green deploysIncident responseCost governance

Data & IoT

MQTTInfluxDBSparkGrafanaQuickSightX.509/TLSIAM/RBAC

Learning

PythonTerraformGo

Education

  • B.Sc. Computer Science

    Birla College of Arts, Commerce and Science

    Jun 2012 – Jun 2015

Certifications

  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) badge

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)

    Amazon Web Services · Sep 2026 · valid until Sep 2029

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  • AI Governance on AWS badge

    AI Governance on AWS

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Sep 2026

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  • Agentic AI Evaluation and Observability badge

    Agentic AI Evaluation and Observability

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Sep 2026

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  • Design Authentication, Authorization and Logging badge

    Design Authentication, Authorization and Logging

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Sep 2026

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  • Building Agentic AI on Amazon EKS badge

    Building Agentic AI on Amazon EKS

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Sep 2026

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  • Building Agentic AI with AWS Serverless badge

    Building Agentic AI with AWS Serverless

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Aug 2026

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  • Anatomy of an AI Agent badge

    Anatomy of an AI Agent

    BeSA Cloud Academy · Aug 2026

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  • Dissecting Ruby on Rails 5

    Udemy · May 2020

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Get in Touch

Open to backend and solutions architect roles, including remote, and available to start immediately. Let's talk.

ashishpandeyone@gmail.com
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