Mukul Kumar Mishra
Tech Lead & SRE Delhi NCR, India

Mukul Kumar Mishra

Seasoned full-stack backend engineer and Tech Lead specializing in Golang and AWS cloud architectures. Specialized in building high-performance backends, telemetry pipelines, and cloud-native microservices utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and SQS.

5+ Yrs
Golang & AWS
7+ Yrs
Databases & Storage
1M+ RPS
High-Scale Ingestion
< 50ms
Real-Time Sync

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Architectural Critique • Featured Deep Dive

Rethinking Control Planes: Cell-Based Architectures for Zero-Blast Radius

An analysis of global sync failures in high-availability systems and why breaking control planes into autonomous regional Raft-backed cells prevents cascading cloud outages.

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Technical Skills

Primary Core

Golang (5 yrs) AWS (5 yrs) Databases (7 yrs) Python (4 yrs)

Infrastructure & Cloud

GCP (3 yrs) Kubernetes (4 yrs) Terraform (2 yrs) Jenkins (3 yrs) Git (6 yrs)

Frontend & Secondary

PHP (5 yrs) CodeIgniter (2 yrs) Symfony (1 yr) React (1 yr) jQuery (3 yrs)

Production Engineering Projects

Scalable Video Streaming on GCP

Golang • FFmpeg • GCP

Architected and deployed a multi-tenant adaptive bitrate (ABR) video streaming pipeline on GCP handling live and VOD content. Reduced third-party streaming costs by 45%.

  • Golang orchestration service managing dynamic FFmpeg encoding jobs.
  • GCP Transcoder API pipeline ensuring 99.99% uptime.
  • Custom ABR logic reducing latency by 30% on low-bandwidth networks.

High-Performance Carrier Lookup

Golang • Redis • GKE

Engineered low-latency microservices processing millions of daily telecom transactions. Improved lookup speed by 80% and reduced external API costs by 90%.

  • Multi-layered Redis cache with 95% hit rate via intelligent pre-fetching.
  • Increased throughput from 500 to 2,000+ RPS using Go channels.

On-Prem to AWS Cloud Migration

Terraform • AWS ECS • SQS

Migrated legacy monolith to containerized AWS architecture, cutting operating costs by 35% and boosting deployment velocity by 60%.

  • Declarative Terraform IaC for repeatable environment provisioning.
  • Decoupled components using SQS for resilient async processing.

Real-time NPC Orchestration

Golang • gRPC • Redis

Built low-latency NPC engine for multiplayer games supporting 100,000 concurrent players with sub-50ms state updates.

  • Go gRPC microservices using Protocol Buffers.
  • Redis Streams event-driven state broadcasts.

Game Microservices on AWS

Golang • Lambda • DynamoDB

Hybrid serverless/container platform handling millions of daily game events with single-digit millisecond state persistence.

  • API Gateway authentication & rate limiting.
  • Automated AWS CodePipeline CI/CD deployed in <10 mins.

S3-Compatible On-Prem Storage

Golang • MinIO • Postgres

On-premise object storage engine with erasure coding, delivering 2GB/s throughput and sub-100ms metadata index lookups.

  • High-performance Go Gin API layer.
  • RBAC security policies with granular token management.

Monolith to Microservices

Python • Flask • CNCF

Migrated financial legacy .NET monolith to CNCF-compliant Python microservices, reducing service coupling by 70%.

  • Event-driven inter-service communication model.
  • Daily deployment cycles via automated AWS pipelines.

Real-Time Metrics Pipeline

Go • Kinesis • DynamoDB

Continuous ingestion system handling millions of events/min across global distributed sources with zero data loss on failover.

  • Go ingestion workers optimized for high backpressure.
  • Stateless Lambda transformations with adaptive DynamoDB capacity.

Centralized SIEM with Wazuh

Linux • SIEM • Wazuh

Deployed enterprise SIEM solution cutting threat MTTR by 70% across large-scale infrastructure fleets.

  • Custom security detection rules targeting zero-day exploits.
  • Automated threat alerts connected directly to SOC workflows.

Automated Transactional Emails

Supabase • Postmark • Edge

Event-driven email engine processing tens of thousands of transactional updates daily with 99.99% deliverability.

  • PostgreSQL Row-Level Security (RLS) data governance.
  • Redis worker queues eliminating upstream API rate limits.

K8s Operator Ginkgo Validation

Golang • Ginkgo • K8s

BDD test framework evaluating Kubernetes Custom Operators across managed cloud providers (EKS, AKS, ROSA).

  • Direct CRD state manipulation tests against live clusters.
  • CI/CD automated regression validation preventing bad releases.

Postoffice.co.uk Microservices

Golang • AWS EKS • DynamoDB

High-throughput microservices including Forex engine servicing multi-million active UK users.

  • Go Gin framework for low-latency financial query resolution.
  • DynamoDB NoSQL schemas optimized for rapid iteration.

Multi-Tenant AI Query Pipeline

TypeScript • OpenAI • Vectorize

Multi-tenant AI semantic search system isolating user context via dynamic vector row-level access control.

  • Dynamic RLS policy injection in vector embeddings.
  • Vectorize.io storage handling high-capacity document lookups.

Stored Procedure Serverless Migration

AWS Lambda • EventBridge

Modernized complex legacy database procedures into modular Lambda functions, improving query speeds by 70%.

  • EventBridge event routing eliminating synchronous database locks.
  • API Gateway secure surface area for backend consumption.

Kong Gateway VoD Filtering

Kong Gateway • Go • gRPC

Fine-grained metadata access control gateway processing queries for hundreds of international VoD publishing partners.

  • Custom Go gRPC Kong plugin enforcing granular access rules.
  • Dynamic metadata response masking based on subscriber rights.

Biometric Document Verification

Python • OpenCV • Celery

High-trust digital signing platform featuring automated biometric verification against official government credentials.

  • OpenCV signature matching algorithms.
  • Offloaded asynchronous image handling via Redis & Celery.

AI Microservices on Kubernetes

AWS EKS • Wazuh • Grafana

Self-service automation platform on EKS with security audit pipelines and telemetry dashboards.

  • Custom K8s operators for RBAC user provisioning.
  • Real-time Grafana security monitoring views.

Enterprise API Gateway

Symfony • RabbitMQ • Redis

Decoupled 20+ modern client applications from a legacy monolithic database structure.

  • RabbitMQ async data synchronization workflows.
  • Redis key revocation & fine-grained rate limiting.

IoT Telemetry Processing Engine

Slim • Kafka • PostgreSQL

Ingestion platform consuming millions of continuous telemetry events daily with 99.99% data pipeline reliability.

  • Parallelized Kafka consumer group architecture.
  • PostgreSQL schema optimized for time-series aggregation.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

EIILM University, Sikkim

2009 - 2012

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

M.S. College, Bihar

2007 - 2009

Secondary School Certificate (SSC)

S.S. High School, Bihar

2006 - 2007