Saurabh Mete
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Saurabh Mete.

Six years shipping backend systems that hold up under real data — high-frequency sensor streams, 150k-user enterprise backends, and the tests to prove it.

Currently building sensor-data pipelines in Kotlin at MotionMiners in Germany. Open to EU and remote roles.

About

I build the boring, important parts.

Backend engineer, six years. Split between enterprise (Tata Consultancy Services) and product (MotionMiners). Most of my day is Kotlin and Java — REST APIs, data pipelines, backend integrations, and the small, unglamorous work that keeps a production system fast under load.

The systems I've worked on are usually sensor- or event-heavy: high-frequency streams, write-heavy paths, tight timing. Two habits I keep coming back to are performance under real data — k6 scripts against the actual pipeline, not synthetic benchmarks — and test coverage that survives refactors. Both separate a demo from a production system.

M.Sc. from TU Dortmund with a thesis on real-time human activity recognition — which is how I ended up on sensor-data infrastructure professionally.

Work

Where I've shipped things.

MotionMiners GmbH

Mar 2022 — Present

Software Developer · Germany

Airgo XP — Ergonomics Platform

Co-led Airgo XP, a production ergonomics platform for logistics environments. I built the Kotlin session-processing pipeline that turns 500 Hz sensor streams into worker sessions, ergonomic metrics, and analytics-ready records — a write-heavy, timing-sensitive path that had to stay reliable on resource-constrained field devices.

The most useful thing I did on it was designing a k6 load test simulating five teams, 100 workers, 15 days, ~1.4M sensor records. The results surfaced the real bottlenecks and drove roughly a 70% throughput improvement in the workflow. I also integrated custom ML inference into the pipeline for real-time posture / activity recognition (≥80% accuracy) and validated the whole thing through 600+ hours of user testing.

Companion — BLE Signal Processing

Built Kotlin/BLE processing components handling signals from 600+ Bluetooth beacons concurrently in warehouse environments. Pushed for clean architecture and disciplined testing — the component reached 90%+ test coverage, which cut regression risk on releases meaningfully. Also mentored junior developers and helped drive technical planning and release prep.

KotlinREST APIsData PipelinesSensor ProcessingCoroutinesFlowsML Inferencek6Load TestingJUnitMockito

Tata Consultancy Services

Jun 2019 — Apr 2021

Full Stack Developer · Mumbai, India

Employee Transport Management System

Built Java / Spring Boot backend services for a nationwide transport platform serving 150k+ internal users and 7k+ drivers across India. My work covered REST APIs and data models for booking, driver operations, trip workflows, and operational reporting, backed by Hibernate/JPA, PostgreSQL, and Redis for caching hot paths.

Automated regression testing with Katalon Studio and acted as Scrum Master — running sprint planning, stakeholder comms, and delivery tracking on top of the engineering work.

JavaSpring BootHibernateJPAPostgreSQLRedisRESTKatalon

Stack

Tools I reach for.

Languages

JavaKotlinPythonSQL

Backend

Spring BootSpring MVCREST APIsHibernate / JPAFastAPIMicroservices

Data / Pipelines

Data PipelinesSensor ProcessingSession ProcessingCoroutinesKotlin FlowsML Inference

Databases

PostgreSQLRedisMongoDB

Cloud / DevOps

AWSJenkinsGitCI/CD

Testing

JUnitMockitok6Load TestingKatalon Studio

Education

Technical University of Dortmund

Dortmund, Germany

M.Sc., Data Science

Thesis: Real-Time Human Activity Recognition.

University of Mumbai

Mumbai, India

B.E., Computer Engineering

Contact

Let's build something.

Email's the fastest way to reach me. Backend roles in the EU — Germany preferred, remote fine — especially where the system has real data behind it.