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Sourav Paul

Sourav Paul

Software Engineer II at American Express

7+ years of experience

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American Express

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IBM

Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College

♛ Career Domain - ▪️ Data structures & algorithms. ▪️ Large-scale distributed systems(HLD/LLD). ▪️ E2E Backend system architecture(API Gateways/LB/Cache/DB/Messaging Queues/Microservices). ▪️ REST APIs/Data Streams/Batch Jobs/Event-driven systems. ▪️ Java/Rx/SpringBoot/Hibernate/MySQL/Cassandra/Docker/Kubernetes/CICD/Git/Cloud. ▪️ Software engineering mentorship to the freshers/experienced professionals. ♛ Key Responsibilities - ▪️ Building scalable quality software solutions by designing, writing code, and unit tests through consistent development practices with a focus on continuous integration/continuous deployment, continuous monitoring, and automated testing(TTD/BDD). ▪️ Debugging software components, identifying code defects, and remediating the buggy flow. ▪️ Participating in code reviews and collaborating on best practices with colleagues. ▪️ Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments. ▪️ Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies. ▪️ Demonstrating increased self-reliance to achieve team goals. Influencing team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk-taking. ▪️ Effectively interpreting technical & business objectives, functional/non-functional requirements, involved challenges, and articulating solutions. ▪️ Collaborating with a team of Engineers, Scrum Master, and Product Owner to effectively achieve objectives by clearly communicating ideas and concepts. ▪️ Mentoring and guiding junior team members to success within the team. ▪️ Interviewing college grads/senior engineers as part of global hiring events across the org. Feel free to reach out for anything related to, ▪️ Software Design/Development/Prototyping/Pair coding. ▪️ Web Technologies/API design/Code reviews. ▪️ Career development/Consulting/Training/Mentorship/Interviews in technology/DSA/System Design. ▪️ Business Idea and its transformation into technology. ▪️ Become a leader and improve leadership skills ▪️ Break into tech ▪️ Connect with FAANG recruiters ▪️ Navigate a career change into Frontend and Backend engineering role ▪️ Prepare for interviews, whiteboard challenges, app critiques, etc. ▪️ Develop in your current role and build a personal development plan ▪️ Create a roadmap to grow in personal/professional aspects ▪️ With mock interviews for software engineering roles ▪️ Understand Data structures and algorithms ▪️ Understand System design concepts ▪️ Prepare for Behavioral interviews ▪️ Architect large scale systems ▪️ Review your code and pull requests ▪️ Write industry level + production ready code ▪️ Build side projects for skill enhancement ▪️ By Pair-programming if you are facing a challenge and brutally blocked ▪️ Provide right resources to learn a new skill/technology ▪️ Improve soft skills and clear communication ▪️ Setup for promotion to the next level by working on areas of growth ▪️ Help hunt the right job, suggest relevant job positions ▪️ Effective networking and connect with recruiters in my network I don't provide help in the following matters: - One's office work - Freelancing work I focus on being inquisitive, tailored to you, and above all collaborative. I'm super passionate about giving back, and shaping the future community of seasoned engineers. Let's connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sourav112/
Sourav Paul

Sourav Paul

Software Engineer 2

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About

As an lead engineer Sourav lead a team of software developers responsible for developing and maintaining Communication platform. Sourav is a full-stack developer specializing in building high-scalability, high-resilience distributed systems. Sourav will help you with to prepare coding interviews, System Design for FAANG and other top product companies and Coding Bootcamps all sorts of backgrounds. He is also offer holders from FANNG link Amazon, Coinbase, Atlassian ,Intuit, Visa, Apple, and many reputed start-ups. He has a strong track record of helping plethora of mentees land FAANG jobs, mostly in big tech. Have been passionately solving Leetcode, HackerRank, Codechef, Codeforces, Codesignal problems, and enthusiastically solving problems with the analysis of space...

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West Bengal, India

Languages That I Speak

English

Bengali

Hindi

Career Journey

Present

Jan, 2022

( 3Y, 5M )

Software Engineer 2

American Express Logo

American Express

Jan, 2022

Apr, 2020

( 1Y, 9M )

Senior Software Engineer

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IBM

Jan, 2018

Jan, 2014

( 4Y )

Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College

Technical Skills

Java LogoJava
DSA LogoDSA
System Design LogoSystem Design
Distributed Systems LogoDistributed Systems
Python LogoPython
Git LogoGit
Java Springboot
GraphQL LogoGraphQL
REST LogoREST
Maven LogoMaven
Redis LogoRedis
GCP LogoGCP
MySQL LogoMySQL
Cassandra LogoCassandra
Kafka LogoKafka
Spark LogoSpark
APIs LogoAPIs
SQL LogoSQL
HDL LogoHDL
LLD
OOP LogoOOP
PubSub

Tools

Postman
Git LogoGit
Docker LogoDocker
GitHub LogoGitHub
Visual Studio Code
Sourav Paul

Sourav Paul

Software Engineer 2

Book a Free Trial: To Plan Your Mentorship with Sourav Paul

30 mins 1:1 call with the mentor

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I expect my mentee to be dedicated and consistent in their efforts. If my mentee is able to give time regularly for their preparation, I am confident that they’ll will make significant progress and achieve their desired outcomes through our mentoring relationship.

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Engineering Manager

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A sample week in long-term mentorship with Sourav Paul

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Sourav Paul

Sourav Paul

Software Engineer II at American Express

7+ years of experience

American Express Logo

American Express

IBM Logo

IBM

Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College

♛ Career Domain - ▪️ Data structures & algorithms. ▪️ Large-scale distributed systems(HLD/LLD). ▪️ E2E Backend system architecture(API Gateways/LB/Cache/DB/Messaging Queues/Microservices). ▪️ REST APIs/Data Streams/Batch Jobs/Event-driven systems. ▪️ Java/Rx/SpringBoot/Hibernate/MySQL/Cassandra/Docker/Kubernetes/CICD/Git/Cloud. ▪️ Software engineering mentorship to the freshers/experienced professionals. ♛ Key Responsibilities - ▪️ Building scalable quality software solutions by designing, writing code, and unit tests through consistent development practices with a focus on continuous integration/continuous deployment, continuous monitoring, and automated testing(TTD/BDD). ▪️ Debugging software components, identifying code defects, and remediating the buggy flow. ▪️ Participating in code reviews and collaborating on best practices with colleagues. ▪️ Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments. ▪️ Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies. ▪️ Demonstrating increased self-reliance to achieve team goals. Influencing team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk-taking. ▪️ Effectively interpreting technical & business objectives, functional/non-functional requirements, involved challenges, and articulating solutions. ▪️ Collaborating with a team of Engineers, Scrum Master, and Product Owner to effectively achieve objectives by clearly communicating ideas and concepts. ▪️ Mentoring and guiding junior team members to success within the team. ▪️ Interviewing college grads/senior engineers as part of global hiring events across the org. Feel free to reach out for anything related to, ▪️ Software Design/Development/Prototyping/Pair coding. ▪️ Web Technologies/API design/Code reviews. ▪️ Career development/Consulting/Training/Mentorship/Interviews in technology/DSA/System Design. ▪️ Business Idea and its transformation into technology. ▪️ Become a leader and improve leadership skills ▪️ Break into tech ▪️ Connect with FAANG recruiters ▪️ Navigate a career change into Frontend and Backend engineering role ▪️ Prepare for interviews, whiteboard challenges, app critiques, etc. ▪️ Develop in your current role and build a personal development plan ▪️ Create a roadmap to grow in personal/professional aspects ▪️ With mock interviews for software engineering roles ▪️ Understand Data structures and algorithms ▪️ Understand System design concepts ▪️ Prepare for Behavioral interviews ▪️ Architect large scale systems ▪️ Review your code and pull requests ▪️ Write industry level + production ready code ▪️ Build side projects for skill enhancement ▪️ By Pair-programming if you are facing a challenge and brutally blocked ▪️ Provide right resources to learn a new skill/technology ▪️ Improve soft skills and clear communication ▪️ Setup for promotion to the next level by working on areas of growth ▪️ Help hunt the right job, suggest relevant job positions ▪️ Effective networking and connect with recruiters in my network I don't provide help in the following matters: - One's office work - Freelancing work I focus on being inquisitive, tailored to you, and above all collaborative. I'm super passionate about giving back, and shaping the future community of seasoned engineers. Let's connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sourav112/

1:1 Session with

Let's use this session to solve few problems in Data Structures & find out areas of improvement.

Vipul

New Tasks added by

Vipul, I have added some videos & problems based on your weaknesses. Try to solve them by weekend.

New Tasks added by

, I am stuck in few concepts.

No worries. Let's connect tonight and fix it.

Vipul Bansal

Yes, I got it now.

09:11

Rohan Jaiswal

Understood.

11:31

Karthikeyan Vishnu

You made it really simple!

13:42

Pratyaksh

I'll complete these.

15:08

Unnat Jain

Thank you

16:09

Vidur

I feel super confident now !

16:24

Ruhi

Thanks a lot

19:42

Sourav Paul

Online

Mid-week Followup from

Vipul, I see you are lagging on your tasks. Let's catch up the pace. You can do it💪

Thanks , I will surely complete it.

Vipul Bansal

Yes, I got it now.

09:11

Rohan Jaiswal

Understood.

11:31

Karthikeyan Vishnu

You made it really simple!

13:42

Pratyaksh

I'll complete these.

15:08

Unnat Jain

Thank you

16:09

Vidur

I feel super confident now !

16:24

Ruhi

Thanks a lot

19:42

Sourav Paul

Online

New Resource shared by

Vipul, I came across this interesting article. Check it out. It will help you understand things better.

1:1 Adhoc Call

I feel you did amazing over the week. Let me share you the solutions and how can you do better over a quick call.

Vipul

Mid-week Followup from

I feel super confident about this topic now. I am able to think in a way that I never could before.

Amazing. So happy😄🚀

Vipul Bansal

Yes, I got it now.

09:11

Rohan Jaiswal

Understood.

11:31

Karthikeyan Vishnu

You made it really simple!

13:42

Pratyaksh

I'll complete these.

15:08

Unnat Jain

Thank you

16:09

Vidur

I feel super confident now !

16:24

Ruhi

Thanks a lot

19:42

Sourav Paul

Online

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