Archit Agarwal
Bengaluru
Summary
Seasoned professional with a solid foundation in planning, executing and overseeing engineering operations. Strengths lie in leadership, team management, and strategic problem-solving abilities. Successfully led complex projects to completion while maintaining high-quality standards and ensuring operational efficiency. Committed to driving innovation and fostering teamwork for optimal productivity.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Pocket FM
12.2024 - 01.2025
- Led Content Management System and Crawling team for PocketFM
- Leading the team of 12 members
- Streamlined the process of sprint planning, optimised code review process
- Started the process for automation of crawling requests which reduced the manual process by 60%
Team Lead
Flipkart
06.2022 - 12.2024
- Improved read latencies of Demand Ads platform using Data Lifecycle management, improved pagination logic
- Designed and built a unified demand planning platform from scratch
- This platform helps users to calculate inventory based on traffic, sales and historical data
- Designed and developed a generic library to take metadata for report,values and generate the report that would be used for Excel based UI
- This library is used by multiple teams in Flipkart
- Leading the team of 10 members
- Code reviews of the team members
- Mentor junior developers in the team
- Stack: Java, Dropwizard, Hibernate, Mysql, Mongo
SDE3(Team Lead)
PayPal
04.2020 - 06.2022
- Designed and built Kafka consumer from scratch which consumed 40 Bn events from Kafka and published them in Big Query in real time
- ClickStream Analytics Java SDK: Develop and maintain Java SDK used by all mid-tier applications across PayPal to auto-log clickstream data
- Identify and fix header propagation for user session tracking (30+ sessions being created for a single checkout attempt)
- Extensively improved server-side analytics
- Led the team for 7 members
- Code reviews of the team members
- Mentor junior developers in the team
- Stack: Project Reactor, Kafka, Spark, Spring, BigQuery
SDE2
PayPal
06.2018 - 03.2020
- Streaming Data Ingestion Platform: Facilitated fraud detection and behavior analytics through building a high performant, reactive, asynchronous, message-driven microservice for acquiring and enriching behavioral data, using reactive system
- Achieved a milestone by reducing machines from 3600 to 900 and scaling up to 40 billion events while ensuring > 99.99% data integrity and availability
- Stack: Project Reactor,Spring, Kafka
Software Developer
SAP Labs(Success Factors)
12.2015 - 06.2018
- Developed modules in Learning Management System
- Involved in requirement analysis, scoping, design and implementation of the features in every release
- Worked on improving the performance of the system by profiling and fixed the bottlenecks
- Worked on development of additional features pertaining to Connectors
- Stack: Java, Oracle, Spring Framework, IntelliJ
Associate Software Engineer
Lowe's India
11.2014 - 12.2015
- Developed applications which facilitate payment related activities
Education
B.Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering
Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College
01.2014
Class XII - ISC
Girish Prasad Memorial College
Bareilly01.2010
Class X - ICSE
Girish Prasad Memorial College
Bareilly01.2008
Skills
- Team Management
- System Design
- Problem Solving & DSA
- SpringBoot Java
- Kafka
- Stakeholder Management
- People Management
- Coaching and mentoring
- Team building
Blog
arcagarwal.medium.com
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Pocket FM
12.2024 - 01.2025
Team Lead
Flipkart
06.2022 - 12.2024
SDE3(Team Lead)
PayPal
04.2020 - 06.2022
SDE2
PayPal
06.2018 - 03.2020
Software Developer
SAP Labs(Success Factors)
12.2015 - 06.2018
Associate Software Engineer
Lowe's India
11.2014 - 12.2015
B.Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering
Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College
Class XII - ISC
Girish Prasad Memorial College
Class X - ICSE
Girish Prasad Memorial College
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