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Avishek Gurung

VP of Engineering

Bangalore, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 11 years of experience in engineering and architecture.
  • Expert in scaling distributed applications for high traffic.
  • Proven track record in mentoring and leading engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in E-commerce and Digital Analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsSystems DesignSoftware DevelopmentData Engineering

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaAuto-scaling LogicAzureCICD DeploymentCatalog ServiceCloud IntegrationCost ReductionCrawl PlatformCrawling PlatformData CatalogData CleansingData Collection

About

A passionate engineer with 11 years of experience, eager to solve complex problems, keen on architecting and scaling distributed applications with massive traffic.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Working with a data catalog cloud of Salesforce.
  • Building a catalog service with a capability to tracking the lineage of data
Data CatalogCatalog ServiceData Lineage TrackingSoftware ArchitectureDistributed Systems

Myntra

3 roles

Associate Software Architect

Promoted

Mar 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Technical guardian for three teams (Vorta, Myntra Forward and Pricing,Buying,Selection) with more than 4 pods and around 25 engineers.
  • Designed Myntra-Forward that aims to identify trends and convert to styles within 30 days of trend identification.
  • Identifying architectural glitches, creating tech debts and bringing engineering excellence in the teams.
  • Reduced blob storage cost by 3 crores by identifying redundancy and introducing life cycle policy.
  • Mentoring engineers and technical leads on code reviews, LLD, HLD and better engineering practices.
  • Winner of Myntra Aug 2023 Hackathon (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7102855029178449920/)
  • Skills: HLD, Engineering excellence.
HLDEngineering ExcellenceTrend IdentificationCost ReductionSoftware ArchitectureSystems Design

Technical Lead

Apr 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Lead two pods (Crawl and Partner Insights) with total size of 8 engineers.
  • Scaled the crawl platform to crawl more than 20 million web pages in a day.
  • Enhanced the capability of the platform by adding ground breaking features like anonymity, politeness, data centre and residential proxies with fallback mechanism, discovery and attribute crawling, etc.
  • Improved the performance of Elastic search by 10X.
  • Came up with a strategy for incremental backup and restore for Hbase and Mysql. (https://medium.com/myntra-engineering/hbase-incremental-backup-and-restore-strategy-33cb9cb1de94)
  • Improved the performance of Druid datastore for service huge analytical queries in sub-seconds.
  • Reduced VM cost by Rs 50 lakhs per year by replacing with optimal proxies (did market research for proxies).
  • Actively involved in code reviews and design reviews of software and senior software engineers.
Crawl PlatformElastic SearchIncremental Backup StrategyDistributed SystemsSystems Design

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2019Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Involved in building and setting up Myntra’s crawling platform from the scratch.
  • Wrote an auto-scaling logic to bump up and trim down VMs based on the load of the platform.
  • Integrated different cloud service providers like AWS and Azure with the platform.
  • Innovated the platform to crawl HTML rendered and API based crawls.
  • Setup clusters for Mysql, ES, RMQ, Hbase and HDFS.
  • Handpicked for building win-covid project for leads and resource verification across India during second wave of Covid.
  • Involved in code reviews and LLD reviews of the fellow engineers.
  • Skills: Java, Python, ES, RMQ, Redis, HDFS, Hbase, Apache Camel.
Crawling PlatformAuto-scaling LogicCloud IntegrationDistributed SystemsSoftware Architecture

Miq

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Owned a digital analytics product called Pixel Server.
  • Designed, implemented and scaled the write-heavy, high throughput and low latency product.
  • Explored different tag management systems like GTM, Tealium, etc and helped clients on-boarding.
  • Built a CICD deployment pipeline in Kubernetes, Helm and Dockers.
  • Part of a data ingestion team with a capability to ingest large data from different sources for analytics.
  • Mentored software engineers in the team and a part of a technical recruitment team.
  • Skills: Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Mysql
Digital AnalyticsCICD DeploymentData IngestionSoftware ArchitectureDistributed Systems

Software Engineer

Sep 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Ownership of a product called Trace to collect data for digital analytics.
  • Built a mini JS framework to collect static data and dynamic user activities using web-sockets for plotting heat maps.
  • Maintained a high scalable backend Java-Vertx server to ingest the above collected data.
Data CollectionJava-Vertx ServerSoftware Architecture

Glider ai

Software Engineer

Dec 2014Sep 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • An initial developer for the product https://glider.ai/
  • Performed several POCs on the framework meteor.js (used for the product building) including check on community support, Turn Around Time for bugs, integration with Lucene, MongoDb, Redis etc.
  • Wrote a weighted algorithm between a job seeker and an employer for matching jobs.
  • Worked with Scrapy for crawling jobs from different job portals.
  • Skills: Python, Meteor, MongoDB, RMQ
Meteor.jsJob Matching AlgorithmSoftware Development

Vizury

Product Engineer

Jun 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on ingesting voluminous feeds from a large number of e-com sources.
  • Worked on Data cleansing and massaging the raw feeds for analytics and DSPs.
  • Worked on building Smart Tags, a mini JS framework for scraping data from web pages.
  • Setup an alerting and monitoring tool for identifying the health of different feeds.
  • A part of a technical recruitment team.
  • Skills: Java, shell script, AWK, Javascript
Data IngestionData CleansingData Engineering

Education

Bangalore University

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2012

St. Joseph's School, North Point, Darjeeling

BSc — Physics (Honors)

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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