Bikas Katwal

Backend Engineer

https://www.opentalent.in/bikas-katwal

Engineer #search, #informationretrieval, #searchengines, #machinelearning, #distributedsystems

Apple

Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Java with multiple personal projects involving distributed systems, messaging queues (Kafka), and data stores (Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch).
Experience with core backend technologies like Spring Boot and Zookeeper.
Practical application of AOP concepts (redis-aop project).
Exposure to containerization (Dockerfile in distributed-kafka-consumer-python project).
Active in personal projects, indicating self-motivation and continuous learning.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's personal projects show a strong inclination towards backend development and distributed systems, which aligns well with a Backend Engineer role. The diversity of technologies (Java, Python, Docker) and problem domains (Slack bots, search ranking, data connectors) suggests adaptability and a broad interest in technical challenges. However, the lack of team-based projects or open-source contributions makes it difficult to assess collaboration and broader cultural fit.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

adventcode-2022

December 1, 2022 – December 11, 2022

Advent of code 2022

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distributed-kafka-consumer-python

October 21, 2021 – February 7, 2023

A distributed Kafka Consumer in Python using Ray

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search-ranking-measures

July 29, 2021 – August 3, 2021

Contains java implementation of all the search ranking evaluators

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elasticsearch-score-normalizer

March 23, 2021 – March 25, 2021

Plugin to normalize score using Min Max or Z Score normalizer.

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jira-review-reminder

March 9, 2021 – March 10, 2021

Slack bot - Sends reminder when jira in review state for more than x unit of time, with PR details

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kafka-util

March 30, 2019 – April 1, 2019

This project demonstrates the capability to start and stop kafka consumer programmatically

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zookeeper-demo

March 28, 2019 – December 26, 2022

Sample Distributed system created using spring boot app server and zookeeper as backbone

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redis-aop

December 27, 2018 – January 8, 2019

Redis annotation based interceptor aspect built on top of Jedis client

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cassandra-client

October 16, 2018 – January 8, 2019

Cassandra operations uitlity built on top of cassandra java drivers

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kafka-solr-sink-connector

June 10, 2018 – June 14, 2023

This is simple JSON based solr sink kafka connector, uses solr cloud

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Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Java with multiple personal projects involving distributed systems, messaging queues (Kafka), and data stores (Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch).
Experience with core backend technologies like Spring Boot and Zookeeper.
Practical application of AOP concepts (redis-aop project).
Exposure to containerization (Dockerfile in distributed-kafka-consumer-python project).
Active in personal projects, indicating self-motivation and continuous learning.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Bikas Katwal

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit