Ram Bhardwaj
Backend & infrastructure engineer. I build distributed systems, real-time platforms, and cloud infrastructure that scale. Currently Founding Engineer & Tech Lead at Newral — shipping production microservices, cloud migrations, and high-availability backends from zero.
Experience
- Zero-downtime migration of 8 production microservices from GCP to ACE Cloud — sole engineer responsible for VMs, GKE, Cloud Run, GCR
- Managed multi-environment Kubernetes clusters — pod autoscaling, rolling deployments, and health checks for high-availability SaaS
- Built queue-driven ECS worker for FFmpeg video transcoding with DRM-protected CDN delivery, decoupled for horizontal scaling
- Slashed CPU usage from 90% → 25% via targeted non-primary key indexing — zero additional infrastructure required
- Architected WebRTC + Socket.IO signalling server from scratch — call routing, session state, forwarding logic
- Shipped Python & Java backend services — data pipelines, auth flows, and third-party integrations powering multiple production apps
- Independently built the backend for the EDST Innovation Award-winning solution, transforming Government Relations workflows
- Defined API contracts and data models across frontend and backend layers for cross-functional teams
- Built Node.js and Python REST APIs with database integrations for internal tooling — delivered end-to-end, earning a full-time return offer
- Architected core ride-hailing backend — real-time location tracking, dynamic pricing engine, trip state machine, driver-rider matching
- Built WebSocket ad-delivery pipeline streaming targeted content to in-car headrest screens with <500ms latency
- Designed revenue-computation engine for driver payouts and fare subsidies per trip based on ad inventory sold
- Deployed on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront) with Redis pub/sub and GitHub Actions CI/CD
Projects
Low-latency trading platform. Redis Streams backbone (poller → engine → DB → frontend). Distributed order engine with auto-liquidation and P&L. Batch persistence into TimescaleDB.
Workflow automation platform. Redis Queue between backend and execution engine. Topological graph execution with cycle detection. Prisma + PostgreSQL for workflow and execution-history persistence.
WebRTC + Socket.IO signalling server built from zero — call routing, session state management, and forwarding logic for real-time peer connections.
Microservices ride-hailing backend with real-time tracking, dynamic pricing, driver-rider matching, and ad-delivery WebSocket pipeline with <500ms latency.