Narendra Pal
Narendra Pal

Staff/Principal Backend and Distributed Systems Engineer

Actively looking · Member since 9 Sep 2026
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Location
Bengaluru, India
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Lead

About

Professional summary

I am a staff-level backend and distributed systems engineer with more than 13 years of experience building high-throughput platforms, real-time data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure.

I specialize in Go, Java, Scala, Python, distributed systems design, REST APIs, gRPC, streaming systems, and large-scale data platforms. My work has focused on improving latency, reliability, scalability, and data efficiency for production systems operating at multi-terabyte and million-endpoint scale.

I have led engineering pods, owned platform architecture and technical roadmaps, conducted system design reviews, and established engineering standards. I enjoy solving complex backend and platform challenges while helping teams deliver dependable systems.

My experience includes Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, Apache Spark, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and observability platforms. I have designed event-driven systems, forecasting engines, telemetry pipelines, ad-serving infrastructure, and engineering productivity solutions.

I have a strong background in observability and SRE practices, including DORA metrics, SLO/SLA governance, distributed tracing, Grafana, and VictoriaMetrics. I am motivated by building scalable platforms, improving developer productivity, and delivering measurable business impact.

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33 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Analytics

Application Hosting

Data Stores

Languages & Frameworks

Experience

Career history

Chief Engineer Samsung R&D India

Led a seven-engineer pod and owned architecture, technical roadmap, system design reviews, and engineering standards for core backend platforms supporting a consumer-side DSP platform.

Architected a high-throughput forecasting engine in Go and Scala using Redis, Apache DataSketches, and Druid. Reduced daily ingestion volume from 3 TB to 700 GB while maintaining over 95% accuracy and enabling sub-second targeting queries.

Designed an event-driven campaign tracking pipeline using Kafka and Redis for real-time pacing and budget deviation telemetry. Also led an enterprise observability and DORA metrics platform integrating VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, GitHub, and PagerDuty to track deployment velocity, lead time, and MTTR.

Technical Lead Zapr Media Labs

Led a cross-functional team of four engineers responsible for the architecture, testing, and rollout of core data and monetization SDKs for TV viewership analytics and advertising products.

Architected resilient telemetry ingestion pipelines deployed across more than one million active devices. Improved payload compression, network batching, and continuous background streaming under constrained device memory and compute budgets.

Built real-time SSP ad-routing infrastructure with more than ten dynamic mediation adapters, standardized ad-serving protocols and auction handling, and served as the primary integration architect for tier-1 enterprise partners.

Senior Engineer Vserv Digital Services Pvt. Ltd.

Engineered a modular ad mediation engine with custom adapters for more than ten tier-1 ad exchanges. Built dynamic waterfall and routing logic to improve bid fill rates and eCPMs.

Developed native C++ and Java JNI bridge interfaces for multithreaded game runtimes, achieving sub-millisecond mediation overhead while eliminating main-thread contention.

Supported integration architecture for more than 50 enterprise publishers and established regression testing harnesses and diagnostic tooling to accelerate partner onboarding.

Software Engineer Nayamode

Worked as a Software Engineer during early career, contributing to software development initiatives.

Built foundational experience in application development and engineering practices.

Android Developer Website Developers India

Worked as an Android Developer during early career, contributing to Android application development.

Developed foundational mobile engineering experience before moving into backend and platform engineering roles.

Education

Learning history

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

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