Soham De
Backend Engineer
Backend engineer with 4 years of experience designing and shipping production FastAPI services, search infrastructure, and data pipelines for chemistry and e-commerce platforms. I build reliable, well-instrumented APIs that scale across dev/stage/prod environments and stay maintainable as the team and traffic grow.
- 4Years of experience
- 11+REST APIs shipped
- 343+Batches processed
- 20+Chemists using ELN daily
Skills & Tooling
Experienceโ 4 yrs and counting
- Full Stack Engineer @ Scimplify โ Bangalore, IN (Dec 2023 โ Present)
- Designed and built an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) from scratch for R&D chemists โ a stage-gated Feasibility โ Optimization โ Validation batch workflow with golden-batch lineage, QC automation, and sample dispatch โ now used daily by 20+ chemists in the Hyderabad lab, processing 343+ batches to date.
- Shipped the ELN backend as an ~1.5k-line FastAPI service with 11 REST APIs and 5 MSSQL tables (stages, batches, QC, documents, dispatch), automating QC pass/fail evaluation against project requirement parameters.
- Built and maintained a FastAPI backend spanning catalog, manufacturer, order, and marketing modules, deployed across dev/stage/prod environments with role-based access control.
- Designed product and manufacturer search on MongoDB and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch with location-based filtering and category/industry taxonomy.
- Built PubChem-based chemical enrichment pipelines (SMILES, InChI, GHS, molecular weight) with bulk CSV/CAS upload and background job processing.
- Hardened production APIs with rate limiting, honeypot anti-crawler middleware, activity/security logging, and Docker + Jenkins CI/CD for GCP Cloud Run deployments.
Projects & Systemsโ shipped systems
Educationโ academic background
- Aug 2020
Manipal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Let's build something reliable.
I'm interviewing for backend roles. If you're hiring engineers who care about API design, observability, and shipping production systems, I'd love to talk.