Chirag Aggarwal

Software Engineer

India6 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Strong experience in cloud computing and big data technologies.
Proven track record in leading engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer specializing in SaaS and high-traffic applications.

Contact

chi6rag@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingBig DataSoftware DevelopmentMobile Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile Web DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache KafkaApache SparkCChatDocker ProductsGitGoGoogle Cloud DataflowGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Hadoop

About

Polyglot engineer with experience in building scalable distributed systems, including both back-ends and front-ends. Working across various teams and engineering disciplines in one of the fastest-growing startups of South-East Asia.

Experience

6 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

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Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · India

High TrafficGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Apache SparkApache KafkaHadoopJava+5

Gojek

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Building a developer platform for managing and administering micro-services
Managing, supporting and scaling a self-hosted Kubernetes running 100+ micro-services
Integrating Prometheus and Cortex to scale the telemetry infrastructure
Enabling developers to simplify deployments and building processes to enable accelerate application delivery

High TrafficCloud Computing

Lead Software Engineer - Marketplace Pricing

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for architecture, development and operations of the systems
Re-wrote a complex and legacy rule-engine which determines the price shown to the customer
Collaborated extensively with business stakeholders to analyze requirements, cut down
scope and structure delivery milestones

High TrafficSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer - Driver Allocations

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Designed and built the Driver Allocation System in Clojure responsible for allocating 1 million drivers to customers in real time
Developed the Driver Location Engine written in Golang which is responsible for querying the nearby available drivers at a throughput of 1 million RPM
Architected and built Surge Engine in Golang which increased the driver's likelihood to accept bookings by more than 50%
Led the development on Driver Heatmaps which served a real time throughout of 100k RPM
Integrated system wide monitoring and alerting using Telegraf, Capacitor and InfluxDB
Served On-Call, responsible for the systems from design to development to operations
Setup and scaled service, database and cache infrastructure for various microservices

High TrafficSoftware Development

Software Engineer - Platform

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos

Fixed numerous bugs in the GoJek Android App which improved the user experience
Integrated premium taxi service to combat newly launched Uber's car taxis in Indonesia
Built live tracking which gave customers confidence in the current location of drivers
Laid down testing and application architecture for the rider application which was responsible for the reduction in the app crashes by 15%
Extensively refactored GO-JEK's rider app to accelerate integration frequency
Built cache enabled Google Maps Wrapper which saved about 70% of API quota for Google Maps API calls. Wrote the service in Ruby and service automation using Chef
Supported development on Wrest, an open-source HTTP library

High TrafficChatMobile Development