Arpit Saxena
Ghaziabad
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 6.5 years of experience architecting and optimizing cloud-native, distributed systems for large-scale consumer platforms. Proven track record in designing real-time data streaming pipelines, migrating complex workloads across clouds, and delivering high-impact MVPs.
- Architected and optimized large-scale streaming pipelines using Apache Beam, Kafka, and Flink, enabling real-time personalization and reducing push-notification latency from 20 minutes to under 100 ms.
- Led the end-to-end cloud migration of Gojek’s Journeys and Personalization Service from GCP (Bigtable, BigQuery) to Alibaba Cloud (Lindorm, MaxCompute), achieving zero downtime and significant cost savings.
- Developed custom BeamIO connectors to enable seamless migration of data pipelines across Bigtable-Lindorm and BigQuery-MaxCompute ecosystems.
- Delivered an MVP platform targeting millions of Gojek users in Indonesia, driving large-scale engagement and re-engagement for consumers, drivers, and merchants.
- Built a comprehensive integration testing framework to simulate real-time Beam pipelines, achieving 90%+ coverage and ensuring fault-tolerant distributed deployments.
- Proficient in Java, Golang, and Spring Boot with strong emphasis on unit and integration testing, system reliability, and performance optimization.
- Adept at collaborating cross-functionally, providing technical leadership, and mentoring teams in performance tuning, data-pipeline optimization, and best practices for scalable microservices
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Gojek
Gurugram
12.2021 - Current
- Led the end-to-end cloud migration of Journeys and Personalization Service from GCP (Bigtable, BigQuery) to Alibaba Cloud (Lindorm, MaxCompute), ensuring high availability, reliability, and zero downtime.
- Built custom Apache BeamIO connectors to support migration of streaming pipelines across data platforms, enabling seamless data flow between Bigtable, Lindorm, BigQuery, and MaxCompute.
- Spearheaded the migration of Apache Beam streaming jobs from Google Dataflow to Flink managed clusters; currently maintaining and optimizing them for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Engineered and optimized distributed systems for Journeys, reducing push notification latency from 20 minutes to under 100 ms using Kafka, Beam, and cloud-native architecture.
- Led key technical initiatives such as segmented journeys and personalized push notifications, improving engagement and conversion rates across millions of users.
- Extended automated test coverage across distributed Beam pipelines, ensuring 90%+ reliability and fault tolerance during production rollouts.
Software Engineer
Operative Media Pvt Ltd.
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 12.2021
- Developed backend APIs and Spring Boot microservices powering CRM data flows, handling 10M+ records with high reliability and consistency.
- Engineered Salesforce Source and CDC Connectors using Kafka-based distributed synchronization, enabling bi-directional data sync between AOS and Salesforce.
- Designed and deployed containerized services using Docker, Terraform, and AWS Lambda, reducing deployment time by 60% and improving scalability.
- Participated in architecture and design reviews, promoting best practices for microservices, distributed systems, and backend reliability.
- Conducted a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline proof of concept, automating deployments across QA and performance environments, reducing manual release efforts by 70%.Delivered backend APIs to enable tenants to create/update/delete CRM data, ensuring high code coverage and seamless interaction with AOS.
- Implemented Salesforce-Source Connectors for integrating Salesforce with the CRM Service, allowing users to create/update/delete data in Salesforce and persist it in Kafka topics and the CRM system.
- Designed CDC Connectors for bi-directional data flow between AOS and Salesforce, enabling users to create/update/delete data in AOS with outbound synchronization to Salesforce. Developed echo-breakers to resolve cyclic issue problems.
- Created an AWS Lambda plugin to schedule data pulls from Salesforce and synchronize it with AOS.
- Actively participated in design-related technical discussions for CRM Service and was responsible for its containerization.
- Managed end-to-end automated and manual deployment of microservices in Q/A and Performance Environments, writing Terraform scripts for CRM Service deployment. Conducted a POC for setting up a Jenkins pipeline for microservice deployments.
Software Engineer
HashedIn Technologies
Bengaluru
02.2019 - 02.2020
- Built and optimized Kafka Connectors (Firebase, Debezium MongoDB, Omnisci, AWS Lambda) supporting scalable data streaming architectures handling 100K+ events/sec.
- Deployed and validated a Kafka cluster on GCP for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance testing.
- Improved serialization efficiency and reduced pipeline latency by 25% through custom encoding strategies.
- Owned performance benchmarking of connectors, driving improvements in throughput and reliability for enterprise clients.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure maintainable, high-quality Java code, reducing defect leakage by 20% in production.
Education
B.Tech - CSE
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Noida01.2019
CBSE 12th -
Delhi Public School
Ghaziabad01.2015
ICSE 10th -
St Mary's Convent School
Ghaziabad01.2013
Skills
- Java
- Golang
- Apache Beam
- Apache Kafka
- Flink
- Data streaming
- Cloud migration
- Lindorm
- MaxCompute
- BigTable
- BigQuery
- System integration
- Google Cloud Dataflow
- Spring Boot
- Redis
- Unit-Testing
- Integration-Testing
Hobbies and Interests
- Body Building
- Standup-Comedy
- Playing cricket
Websites
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Gojek
12.2021 - Current
Software Engineer
Operative Media Pvt Ltd.
02.2020 - 12.2021
Software Engineer
HashedIn Technologies
02.2019 - 02.2020
B.Tech - CSE
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
CBSE 12th -
Delhi Public School
ICSE 10th -
St Mary's Convent School