Atharva Gham

Washington, DC

Architect and maintain distributed backend services in Go and Python, focusing on operational resilience, latency reduction, and observability.

• Built backpressure-aware event ingestion and observability paths with queue-backed workers, retry behavior, and clear failure signals.
• Instrumented end-to-end OpenTelemetry tracing across microservices, reducing mean time to identify (MTTI) production bottlenecks by 40%.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and security baseline enforcement using Terraform, integrating policy-as-code into CI/CD workflows.

Remote

Developed security automation and hardened deployment pipelines for cloud-native infrastructure, reducing manual triage effort.

• Built Python-based automation scripts that triaged and enriched over 1,000 security alerts per week, eliminating repetitive toil.
• Implemented Semgrep and CodeQL scanning in GitHub Actions, blocking OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities before merging to the main branch.
• Configured robust SIEM dashboards and alerts in ELK, mapping anomalous logs to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for faster incident response.

Pune, India

Profiled Linux-based backend services, improved API latency, and supported release automation across staging setups.

• Optimized Linux backend services and improved API responsiveness for 4,300+ active users by removing redundant database queries.
• Automated server configuration and deployment validation routines with Bash-based tooling, accelerating server rollouts by 30%.
• Identified and patched memory constraint issues in C++ worker processes via comprehensive crash dump analysis.