Arnay Shukla

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Designed a real-time analytics platform with low-latency ingestion.
Engineered a Mixpanel replacement saving over $340K annually.
Spearheaded a cashback program boosting retention by 38%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Data Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

KafkaClickhouseSpring BootSpring State MachineAngular

Other Skills

ActiveMQAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaClickstreamData EngineeringData PlatformDynamoDBGrafanaH2DBInternet of Things (IoT)JavaJava Message Service (JMS)LinuxMongoDBMySQL

About

I’m a software engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed architectures, and real-time data platforms. Over the past 6+ years, I’ve designed and built production systems across autotech, fintech, e-commerce, and edtech—owning the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment to BAU. I currently work on a large-scale real-time analytics platform, leveraging Kafka, ClickHouse, Golang, gRPC, and Spark to deliver low-latency ingestion, high-throughput processing, and fast analytical queries. My experience includes schema design, performance tuning, event pipelines, observability, and building internal tooling that improves developer velocity. I enjoy solving complex systems problems, optimizing bottlenecks, and writing about engineering learnings on arnayshukla.com.

Experience

Allen digital

Senior Software Engineer

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Designed and implemented a real-time data warehouse using Kafka Connect and ClickHouse to ingest CDC streams from MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, S3 and external sources.
Developed and enforced a common schema registry with SOPs and runbooks, standardizing data governance across 5+ teams.
Engineered an in-house Mixpanel replacement handling 100M+ events/day at ≈50 ms latency—saving > 340K USD annually.
Built a real-time Nudge Platform to assign users into cohorts, reducing cohort assignment TAT from 24 hours to 15 minutes.
Leveraged the platform to enable AOSAT test nudges, contributing to INR 70 Cr in annual revenue and driving >20% lead conversion
Architected alerting and monitoring via Grafana and PagerDuty with tiered P0/P1/P2 on-call schedules and notification policies.
Contributed to the Clickhouse Kafka Connect open source project by fixing a `ClassCastException` caused by incorrect tuple value ordering, improving sink connector stability (Issue #422).
Won the Rising Star Award at Annual Rewards And Recognition 2024.

KafkaClickHouseMySQLMongoDBDynamoDBS3+3

Nykaa

Software Engineer II

May 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Spearheaded a cashback loyalty program for 100K+ users, boosting retention by 38% and AOV by 50%.
Optimized a Trade Scheme discount engine to sub-10 ms GET responses using Spring Boot and H2DB for 5K+ SKUs and 500K+ active schemes.
Architected an ETA microservice for accurate delivery estimates and warehouse allocation.
Implemented a Spring Cloud Gateway aggregator to streamline daily cart/checkout requests

Spring BootH2DBSpring Cloud Gateway

Airtel africa digital labs

Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Delivered a microservices-based fintech platform serving millions across 14 countries.
Managed payment workflows with Spring State Machine for credit/debit operations and recurring payments.
Developed a digital banking solution for the Nigerian government within 6 months.
Built a pre-paid voucher service for UNICEF and Madagascar, and orchestrated Paycode transactions in Nigeria

Spring State Machine

Cardekho

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Developed an omni-channel chatbot platform (web, WhatsApp, Messenger) with voice/video support.
Architected a drag-and-drop Angular + Spring Boot workflow builder for non-technical users.
Automated SMS campaigns and unified Google/Facebook Ads APIs into a single real-time dashboard—saving INR 6 L/day.

AngularSpring Boot