Anand Kumar Shaw

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled Walmart grocery services from 1 million to 10 million orders.
Architected Apache Pinot for real-time analytics handling 10B+ events/day.
Led Uber's cloud migration for 400+ petabytes of data.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache PinotJavaLeadershipGo (programming Language)Apache KafkaSpring BootSpring FrameworkKubernetesNode.js

Other Skills

AkkaAmazon DynamodbAzure Cosmos DBCloud ComputingCloud FoundryEKSElasticSearchFlywayGCSHTMLJavaScriptMachine LearningMavenMessage BrokerMicroservices

About

Passionate engineer dedicated to crafting solutions that resonate with users. Architect behind numerous robust services, adeptly managing daily traffic in the billions. Instrumental in erecting expansive, high-capacity omni-channel store fulfillment systems for the global leader in retail. In the pandemic era, directly facilitated the transformation of Walmart US grocery services, scaling from a thousand to millions of orders. Area of interest is Algorithms and data structures.I have participated in lots of competitive programming during my college time. 1) Selected for ACM ICPC South Asia Regionals. 2) Qualified for both Google Code Jam and Facebook Hacker Cup twice. 3) Runner up in Coding contest at Jadavpur University tech fest (Srijan 2015) World rank of #3165 out of 2.5 Lakhs on Largest online programming platform. http://www.spoj.com/users/anand_heritage/ https://www.codechef.com/users/anand_007 https://www.hackerearth.com/codevidhi/

Experience

Angel one

2 roles

Sr Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apache Pinot | Distributed Real-Time Analytics Platform
Architected and scaled Apache Pinot infrastructure to handle 10B+ events/day across 10+ real-time tables, enabling low-latency analytics for fraud detection, recommendations, and observability. Sustained 5000+ QPS with P99 latency < 70ms.
Business Impact: Enabled a major homepage stock cohort revamp using real-time insights, leading to ₹30Cr+ revenue uplift. Received direct appreciation from CEO and CTO for delivering measurable business outcomes.
Platform Engineering: Led the design and launch of Navigator Service and CXO Dashboard, establishing scalable data access patterns for leadership and cross-functional teams. Aligned teams on SLAs, cost controls, and governance.
Open Source & Advocacy: Contributed critical PRs to Apache Pinot and Roaring Bitmaps, improving query efficiency and server resource utilization. Published a technical blog on Angel One’s Medium, sharing infra best practices at scale.
Mentorship & Culture: Mentored ICs and interns across pods, driving high standards in code quality, design reviews, and on-call readiness. Helped foster a high-ownership, high-trust engineering culture.

Apache PinotEKSJavaGo (Programming Language)

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Customer Experience | CX Core & Angel One Labs
Enhanced customer experience across KYC, CNS, recommendation, and data engineering domains by contributing to core CX and Angel One Labs initiatives.
Strategic Planning & Execution: Led quarterly planning cycles in partnership with Product teams to ensure alignment with business goals and customer impact.
Architecture & Platform Thinking: Spearheaded the development of CX Core services and authored a scalable service architecture proposal to improve OCV, SmartIVR, and chatbot systems.
Conversational AI Innovation: Designed and implemented a domain-oriented chatbot in collaboration with the Data Science team, significantly improving customer engagement and support efficiency.

Go (Programming Language)LeadershipApache PinotAmazon Dynamodb

Roaringbitmap

RoaringBitmap Contributor

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/RoaringBitmap

The apache software foundation

Apache Pinot Contributor

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Uber

Lead Software Engineer

May 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Data Mesh Migration (400+ Petabytes): Led critical engineering efforts in Uber’s cloud migration journey, overseeing the design and development of a core Data Mesh service to support ownership mapping, metadata translation, and decisioning as Uber transitioned 400+ PB of data from on-prem to cloud.
Technical Leadership: Directed a focused team in building scalable systems for data federation, lineage, and governance—enabling safe, compliant, and efficient data migration.
Cloud Vendor Evaluation: Designed and implemented a robust performance benchmarking framework to evaluate major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI), directly influencing Uber’s strategic cloud vendor selection.
Hive Ecosystem Contributions: Actively contributed to Hive Metastore, HiveSync, and surrounding ecosystem components—ensuring metadata consistency and compatibility across hybrid data environments.
Observability Platform: Collaborated on Data Central, Uber’s observability stack for data platforms, driving visibility and operational excellence across pipelines and services

gRPCJavaApache KafkaSpring FrameworkMySQLGCS

Walmart global tech

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

From 0 to 1mn orders. From 1mn to 10mn. I built the platform that made it possible 🚀🚀
Lead a team of 5 Engineers.

Spring BootRedisJavaApache KafkaLeadershipSpring Framework+1

Software Engineer 3

Jun 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Integral component of an immensely scalable omni-channel store fulfillment system employed by the foremost global retailer. Played a pivotal role in the inception and continuous enhancement of the Walmart Grocery System.
This cutting-edge framework is founded upon technology stack including Kafka, Java, MS SQL, Meghacache, and Kubernetes. Spearheaded the design and development of a high-throughput system with a capacity to efficiently handle 200 transactions per second (TPS).

Spring FrameworkMySQL

Paytm

Software Engineer

May 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

In this pivotal project, I played a central role in establishing direct integration with strategic partners, revolutionizing the way our platform interacts with external services. Leveraging the power of Java, Akka, and Akka HTTP, Used Actor and Message-driven paradigm to ensure efficiency, scalability, and fault tolerance. The core of my work culminated in the development of highly performant REST APIs that were seamlessly deployed on Kubernetes, flawlessly interfacing with our partners' SOAP services.

RedisMongoDBKubernetesNode.jsJavaApache Kafka+1

Sap labs india

Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1) Working for HANA Cloud platform , building Jobscheduler as a service on Cloud Foundry. Developed all the core functionalities , like scheduling jobs, searching and handling database artifacts.
Have a good Knowledge in Java , Node js , postgresql , Flyway ,Liquibase , Spring boot.
Also learnt a lot about Api designing and underlying architecture of Cloud foundry and Node js.
2) Worked with Kafka as a service , developed BOSH Releases on openstack and AWS. Gave me a good understanding about Networking too.

Node.jsJavaApache KafkaMySQLPostgreSQL