Asmit Vimal
I'm a Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer, AI & Automation Builder, Competitive ProgrammerAbout Me
I'm Asmit Vimal, a Backend Engineer (SDE 2) at CRED, where I built CRED Flights & Hotels from zero to one and own search, booking and payments end-to-end. I work on large-scale distributed systems in Java and Go, and build AI agents and automation that take real work off my team's plate.
Backend & Distributed Systems
AI Agents & Automation
Flutter Development
3.5 +
Years of Experience
1825
CodeChef rating (4-star)
15 +
Projects completed
500 +
Cup of coffee
Skills
Backend Development
Java | Go | Spring Boot | Dropwizard | AWS
Data & Infrastructure
PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | Redis | OpenSearch | Databricks
AI & Automation
Claude | Codex | Gemini | Agents & Skills
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Experience
Jan 2023 - Present
Backend Engineer - SDE 2
CRED · Bengaluru, IN
- Built and launched CRED Flights & Hotels from zero to one, owning search, booking and payments services end-to-end; now serving 100+ bookings per day with 1K+ DAU.
- Engineered a CRON-scheduled Statement of Accounts pipeline serving 50K+ users daily using S3, CDC, Databricks and SQS; now the shared path for 3 lending products at 30% lower cost than the system it replaced.
- Replaced Apache Velocity with an in-house template resolver, cutting median resolution time 38% across 100+ templates rendered daily.
- Architected a multi-supplier platform with rule-based supplier fan-out, response transformation, aggregation and de-duplication; onboarded 7 suppliers and cut new-supplier integration from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 days.
- Designed an entity-based rule engine that moved business-rule changes from code deploys to runtime configuration, used across multiple LOBs.
- Shipped 5+ AI agents and automation workflows for on-call triaging, log search, tech-doc writing and an in-house AI employee, saving the bankstack team 20+ hours/week.
- Mentored 5 engineers, led design reviews for flights, hotels, co-lending and LAS, and owned on-call for 10+ production services.
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Software Development Engineer Intern
Lal10 · Noida, IN
- Re-architected the database schema from a legacy SQL system to MongoDB and refactored core endpoints, reducing p95 response time from 3000ms to 750ms.
- Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS - EC2, RDS, DynamoDB and SQS.
- Automated the CI/CD pipeline at each stage, cutting production deployment time by 75%.
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Full Stack Web Developer
Solocl Technologies
- Developing full-fledged cross-platform web/mobile applications
- Architecting, building, and maintaining excellent web/mobile applications with clean code
- Working together with the founding team and providing inputs on how to make the app experience better.
Education & Achievements
National Institute of Technology, Patna
Jun 2019 - Jun 2023 · Bihar, IN
BTech (Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering — CGPA 9.14 / 10
Relevant Courses
- ALL Courses
- IT Automation
- Deep Learning
- Web/App Development
- Machine Learning
Get In Touch
Let's talk about everything!
Send me an email. 👋