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Divya Somashekar

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Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems & Cloud-Native Architecture

Berlin, Germany Backend Engineer at N26 8+ years experience
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About

I'm a Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, distributed systems. At N26, I helped drive the architecture and growth of a highly available, event-driven platform used by millions of customers across Europe.

Over the years I've taken on technical leadership responsibilities — mentoring engineers, leading design discussions, and driving cross-team architectural decisions. I enjoy breaking down complex problems, designing fault-tolerant systems, and delivering clean, efficient, maintainable code.

I'm passionate about system design, distributed computing, and helping teams build robust software at scale. I thrive in agile environments and believe in knowledge sharing, mentorship, and building strong engineering cultures.

Skills & Expertise

Languages & Frameworks Java Kotlin Python Spring Boot Hibernate
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS Docker ArgoCD GitHub Actions CI/CD Datadog
Architecture Microservices Event-Driven Systems Distributed Systems Fault-Tolerant Design System Design
Databases & Messaging Apache Kafka PostgreSQL Redis Redshift
Practices Technical Leadership Mentorship Agile / Scrum Code Reviews Design Reviews

Experience

Backend Engineer Oct 2022 – Present
N26 · Berlin, Germany
N26 is one of Europe's leading digital banks. Helped drive the architecture and growth of a highly available, event-driven platform serving millions of users. Key work included scaling backend services for rapid growth, ensuring fault tolerance across services, implementing event-driven microservices with Kafka and AWS, and driving adoption of CI/CD pipelines and ArgoCD to streamline deployments.
JavaKotlin KafkaAWS MicroservicesArgoCD System Design
Member of Technical Staff May 2022 – Aug 2022
VMware · Bengaluru, India
Infinera · 4 yrs 1 mo
Senior Software Development Engineer Mar 2021 – May 2022
Bangalore, India
Built TNPS — a network planning tool from scratch — for the NPS R&D team. The tool plans how networks are deployed across geographies, configures network elements, and optimises existing networks using algorithms to minimise the Bill of Materials and reduce customer costs.
JavaSpring BootNetwork Planning
Software Development Engineer II May 2018 – Mar 2021
Bangalore, India
Developed DNA-M, a network management tool for packet optical networks in Metro R&D. Designed L0–L3 service solutions using TMF Modelling, built REST APIs, and delivered real-time scalable applications. Resolved critical customer issues under tight time constraints.
JavaSpring Boot REST APIsDocker RabbitMQ
Software Developer Aug 2016 – May 2018
Pelatro · Bangalore, India
Worked on a B2C enterprise campaign management system delivering precision marketing solutions for the global telecom industry. Designed and developed distributed processing algorithms for large datasets using Java, Hadoop, HBase, and Kafka.
JavaKafka HadoopHBase Distributed Systems

Education

Education details are available on my LinkedIn profile.

Get in touch

I'm open to backend engineering roles involving distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and technical leadership. The best way to explore my full background and connect is through LinkedIn.

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