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Akshay Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building data lakes and streaming systems.
  • Reduced data refresh SLA from 24 hours to 30 minutes.
  • Automated ETL processes for non-technical users.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert in Fintech and SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data StreamingDistributed SystemsData EngineeringData LakesExtract, Transform, Load (etl)Machine LearningSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAirflowAlgorithmsAmazon KinesisAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApache HudiApache KafkaApache PinotApache SparkAsynchronous SystemsCassandraData Structures

About

I am a computer engineer and has been working with systems primarily around data. I have profound technical interest in ingestion and storage formats, data conflict resolution paradigms, streaming data, data lakes and distributed systems. Usually I work on: Data Streaming, Data Lakes, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Presto, Amazon Redshift, MySQL, Debezium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Flask, Kubernetes, Docker

Experience

Wise

Senior Software Engineer - Stream Processing

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Building reliable and intuitive systems for real-time data and streams.
Data StreamingApache FlinkKafkaDistributed Systems

Blinkit

Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform

Feb 2019Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Key achievements:
  • 1. Building a reliable and central data lake (using Apache Hudi) for ~800 OLTP tables (MySQL + Postgres) using log based CDC over Kafka Connect and streaming pipeline, with reduced refresh SLA from 24 hours to every half hour along with lesser operational costs and better data quality.
  • 2. Real time applications around business observability and pipelines using Apache Flink and Apache Pinot.
  • 3. Automation for creation and deployment of ETLs over Airflow DAGs for non-technical end users using simplest of configurations.
  • 4. Integration of several external services and building clickstream analytics as CDP.
Apache HudiKafka ConnectApache FlinkAirflowData EngineeringData Lakes

Sirionlabs

Data/Software Engineer

Jul 2018Feb 2019 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Responsible for automation of extraction in contracts' obligation and metadata by:
  • 1. Data warehousing and Data ingestion using Data pipeline tools (Rabbitmq, Kafka, Spark).
  • 2. Document parsing using Aspose.
  • 3. Extraction using Machine learning and NLP (Stanford NLP and spacy) models.
  • 4. Storage of information in document based DB (MongoDB).
  • 5. Classification and categorization using scikit-learn classifiers, gradient boosting, etc.
  • 6. Text sequence classification by Deep learn models (keras, Tensorflow), using RNN, Attention networks, auto encoders, sequence models.
  • 7. Flask, queuing system, Asynchronous non-blocking processing using asyncio for providing ML as a service.
Data WarehousingMachine LearningNLPMongoDBData Engineering

Info edge india ltd

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Responsible for development of up and new features for Resdex, Resdex Mobile APIs and ensuring healthy state of web application.
  • Developed several new spring boot and symfony microservices. Also involved in transition and refactoring of older features into new microservice architecture (php to spring boot).
Spring BootSymfonySoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2016May 2017 · 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Developed several mailer and search feaures for resdex, also built mobile apis recruiters' app, OTP, authentication, notifications, etc.

Education

National Institute of Technology Raipur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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