Aaquib Khwaja

Software Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States10 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expert in designing scalable, high-performance systems.
  • Proven track record in leading end-to-end development lifecycles.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with strong capabilities in Big Data and Distributed Systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataDistributed Systems

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkApache Spark StreamingAzure Cosmos DBAzure Data FactoryAzure Data LakeCC#C++Core JavaData Structures

About

With over 10 years of experience in software engineering, I specialize in designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems. Skilled in building distributed systems, improving engineering quality, and leading end-to-end development lifecycles.

Experience

Mentors without borders

Mentor

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Helping children explore the world of programming.

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/modeling-simulation-workbench/modeling-simulation-workbench-overview
  • Leading various tracks in developing the v1 of Azure MSWB.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr

  • Azure Synapse ML
  • I played a key role in the design of containerized model prediction on Azure Synapse.
  • Contributed to enabling hyper parameter optimization, designing the platform wide telemetry and onboarding model prediction on PowerBI Trident.

Software Engineer II

Apr 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Azure Open Supply Chain Platform
  • I was one of the first hire in the team and got the opportunity to build Azure Open Supply Chain Platform (OSCP) from ground up.
  • I was a core member of OSCP’s Data Platform team where I led the design and development of fundamental building blocks of the platform. The platform supported various capabilities like data ingestion and export, cross-tenant data sharing, schema and model management to name a few.
  • Right from the initial stages until the product’s private preview and further, I worked extensively with PMs and with customers to understand their pain points and to reiterate on the feedback in making sure that we are solving the right problem.

Scaler

Mentor

Dec 2021May 2022 · 5 mos · Remote

  • Helped engineers with data structures, algorithms and system design.

Flipkart

2 roles

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Oct 2019Apr 2020 · 6 mos

  • Flipkart Data Platform
Apache SparkHadoopApache KafkaJavaApache Spark StreamingBig Data+1

Software Development Engineer 2

Apr 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Flipkart Data Platform

Myntra

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2017Apr 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on the design for multi-tenant ingestion.
  • Designed and developed a data processing platform to support SQL workloads at a high scale.
  • Technologies/Languages : Spark, Spark Streaming, SparkSQL, Kafka, Scala, Python, S3, Redis

Software Engineer

Nov 2016Sep 2017 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on developing and scaling a self-serve Analytics Platform.
  • Developed a streaming platform using Spark Streaming to process ~2M events/min in near real time.
  • Worked on productionizing a low latency data query platform using Presto and Alluxio.
  • Designed and developed an Orchestration framework to schedule and run ETL and Analytics jobs on Azkaban.
  • Worked on migration of all the Data Engineering components from AWS to Azure.
  • Technologies/Languages : Spark, Kafka, Scala, Presto, Alluxio, S3, Redshift, Secor, Redis, Aerospike, Python, SQL, Memsql.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer I

May 2016Oct 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Amazon AppStore and Amazon Alexa.
  • AppStore: Being a part of the the ingestion team, worked on policies for verifying app content and features.
  • Alexa: Worked on developer communication automation.

Flipkart

2 roles

Software Development Engineer I

Jul 2015Apr 2016 · 9 mos · Bangalore Area, India

  • Worked on developing a platform to support near real time processing of data using Spark Streaming.
  • Worked on enabling data ingestion from various sources across Flipkart.
  • Worked on the migration of Insights Platform from Hadoop to Spark.
  • Technologies/Languages used: Spark, Spark Streaming, Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, Scala, Java, Hive.

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2015Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Bangalore Area, India

  • Worked primarily on Dockerizing a distributed environment comprising of Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Zookeeper and MySql.
  • Won the most 'Business Relevant Hack' in the annual HackDay.
  • Technologies/Languages : Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Zookeeper, MySql, Java.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master's degree — Computer Science

Aug 2025Present

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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