ISSUE No. 01
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JOSEPH
ANJILIMOOTTIL

★ THE BACKEND ENGINEER ★ DUBLIN, IRELAND
1 Chapter One

The Origin Story

NARRATOR: Two years ago, our hero walked into Easebuzz as an intern...
I build the plumbing behind payments — APIs that move money reliably at scale. Promoted twice in 22 months at Easebuzz, from Intern to SDE-2. Off the clock: an MSc in Data Analytics from NCI Dublin, and a BTech in Computer Science with Honours in AI/ML.
PROMOTED
IN 22 MO
150K+DAILY
TXNS
98%UPTIME
2 Chapter Two

The Proving Ground

SETTING: Easebuzz HQ — payment infrastructure, 150,000+ transactions a day
INTERN ┈┈┈ SDE-1 ┈┈┈ SDE-2 ★ Employee of the Quarter
PANEL 1

The Bottleneck

Cut backend load 70% on a system handling 150,000+ daily transactions — swapped synchronous partner commission math for concurrent Python asyncio, chosen for true parallelism over caching.

PANEL 2

3 Days → 30 Minutes

Built a mass merchant onboarding API that collapsed a 3-day manual approval process into 30 minutes, scaling to 8,000+ merchants and feeding ~30% gross revenue growth.

PANEL 3

The Backbone

Designed modular Django REST APIs for partner-merchant config, reused across teams and partners — serving 50,000+ partners at 98% uptime.

PANEL 4

First Contact: AI

Shipped the company's first AI support chat on Amazon Bedrock, trained on internal policy, deployed across multiple AWS availability zones.

PANEL 5

2 Days → 15 Minutes

Cut deployment time from 2 days to 15 minutes with CI/CD pipelines using Docker and Jenkins, across 10 services.

3 Chapter Three

Side Quests

Alzheimer's Staging — Multi-IT Transformer

Sep – Dec 2025

Extended an interpretable transformer to 4-class Alzheimer's staging across 44,000 MRI scans, closing a gap present in over 80% of existing AD literature.

Used Triplet Attention to surface clinically relevant brain regions — explainability built for clinical decision support, not leaderboard score.

Trained on an NVIDIA A100, benchmarked against 4 CNN baselines — the twist: transformers need multimodal or volumetric input to match CNNs on 2D-only MRI tasks.

44KMRI SCANS
4CNN BASELINES

Moby Dublin — Telemetry Platform

Jun – Aug 2025

Real-time Spark Structured Streaming pipeline over live GeoJSON telemetry from Dublin's Moby e-bike fleet, using event-time windowing and watermarking to eliminate 14% duplicate GPS records.

Fault-tolerant aggregates written to Parquet on S3 and MongoDB, surfacing demand hotspots and station crowding up to 180–200% capacity.

Built with no trip-level data — every insight inferred from station-state changes alone, delivered through an interactive Streamlit dashboard.

14%DUPES CUT
180–200%PEAK LOAD
4 Chapter Four

The Arsenal

INVENTORY: tools carried into every mission
Backend
DjangoPython
Languages
PythonJavaScript
Cloud & DevOps
AWSDockerJenkins
Data Engineering
Apache SparkDagster
Databases
MongoDBRedisPostgreSQL
Machine Learning
PyTorchTensorFlowKerasScikit-learn
Frontend
ReactAnt Design
5 Chapter Five

Training Grounds

MSc, Data Analytics
National College of Ireland, Dublin
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
BTech, Computer Science — Honours in AI/ML
Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune
Jul 2019 – May 2023
6 Final Chapter

To Be Continued...

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