Shikhar Srivastava

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 2 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 12 years of experience in mission-critical applications.
  • Led multi-million dollar projects with global impact.
  • Expert in cloud-native data applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringMachine LearningProduct Development

Other Skills

Data analyticsAI solutionsPlanogramsOperational efficiencyArchitectureDesignScalaKotlinKubernetesMentoringLocation ServicesJavaMulti-cloud environmentDistributed architectureServerless data pipelines

About

An innovative problem solver with over 12 years of experience in developing robust mission critical applications for high-volume business operations. An enthusiastic team player/lead, fast thinker and willing to take on new challenges anytime with ever curious mindset with strong foundation in system design and architecture. Hands on experience on full stack application development and data engineering. Proficient in architecturing cloud first and cloud native data applications on both AWS and GCP. Experienced in frontend frameworks like Angular and ReactJS as well. Highly interested in challenging profiles and complex business problems

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Target

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • As a Lead Software Engineer, I am heading the efforts for Data analytics and AI solutions for helping build planograms at scale leading to 10 million dollars worth of yearly labour cost saved for Target.
  • I am also helping the team build Agentic pipelines to build hyper localised planograms for Target stores to bring in more data driven operational efficiency to the stores and a more pleasant buying experience for the customers, leading to almost 20 million dollars in impact to the bottom line
Data analyticsAI solutionsPlanogramsOperational efficiencyData EngineeringDistributed Systems

Agoda

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2021Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • As a Staff Software Engineer, I also lead architecture and design of software components as well as support these applications in their lifecycle while managing a team of around 12 highly talented software engineers.
  • I have helped Agoda launch and maintain multi-million dollar projects with world's leading banks, airlines and governments to launch their personalized white label platform and make it available publicly. One of the examples is https://www.anaworldhotel.com/
  • My day to day tasks involve developing back end platform in Scala & Kotlin stack that work in a self hosted k8s environment to be able to support and maintain multiple white labels while mentoring junior developers in the team and helping them achieve their technical goals as well.
  • I have led the effort for streamlining the complex workflows into scalable solutions using first principles thinking and making the platform robust and maintainable in the long run giving an improvement of almost 100% for feature turn around time
ArchitectureDesignScalaKotlinKubernetesMentoring+2

Here technologies

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • I worked as part of Location Services Platform team where my key responsibilities were to design Location Services for serving Enterprises which can provide custom Location services to them on their dataset.
  • My day to day tasks involve Developing full stack applications/services in Java / Scala that work in a multi-cloud environment and deliver quick POCs to the senior leadership on the feasibility of the solutions proposed and then present a case for more scalable solutions to the leadership accordingly.
  • As a Lead developer, I also led architecture and design of software components as well as support for the live applications in their lifecycle.
Location ServicesJavaScalaMulti-cloud environmentSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems

Publicis sapient

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Worked with a top Wealth and Asset Management Firm, solving critical business problems in financial services domain. Handled a complex distributed architecture comprising of over 80+ micro services based service mesh to provide real time view on financial holdings and cash transactions for portfolio managers to carry out their trades for the day and evaluate their portfolios for HNIs across the world.
  • Led the effort to build multiple server less data pipelines for the client to optimize costs to tune multiple production workloads using AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, API Gateway and other AWS Cloud Native solutions to bring AWS Cloud operating cost by almost 30% month on month.
Distributed architectureServerless data pipelinesAWSSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems

Chaayos

3 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2018Aug 2019 · 10 mos

  • Led a team of 5 for delivering complex on field IoT system for Chaayos Cafes and helped in improving the data driven decision making for operations of the company and built a Preventive Maintenance Pipeline for the hardware team
  • Built a data driven sales forecasting model for the Company to enhance sales and improve supply chain and logistics by 20% on the cost of goods by 3rd Month of deployment using LSTM neural networks
IoT systemsData-driven decision makingSales forecastingSoftware EngineeringMachine Learning

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Working with Chaayos to build in house technology solutions to optimise operations and building next generation platforms for organisation's explosive growth.
  • Creating solutions like Vendor Management, Real time inventory and pricing systems to give a 360 view to state of the company logistics and supply chain.
  • Creating solutions for reporting needs of the organisation, to ease up day to day operations.
  • Handled Payment Partner integration with Paytm and Razorpay for Payments.
  • Handled integration with Partners like Truecaller to enhance CRM for the organization.
  • Reporting of IoT enabled machines in the stores and enabling providing metrics around the same.
Vendor ManagementReal-time inventory systemsPayment integrationSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Software Engineer

Nov 2015Aug 2016 · 9 mos

  • Working as a full stack developer designing solutions in J2EE stack for supporting operations of the company.
Full stack developmentJ2EE stackSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

To the new

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015Oct 2015 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Product DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Reppify

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Apr 2015Jul 2015 · 3 mos

  • As a Software Engineer II in Reppify, I have had opportunity to work on several projects, handling responsibilities according to the requirements, like:
  • 1. Front-end development of Reppify web and Reppify mobile iOS app.
  • 2. REST services creation & integration for Reppify mobile app development
  • 3. Candidate Referral Recommendation Engine :- Automated referrals of suggested candidates using Employees network on Social Media.
  • 5. Integration of Reppify Product with ATS like Taleo.net and CRM Like Salesforce.com
Front-end developmentREST servicesSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • As a Software Engineer in Reppify, I have had opportunity to work on several projects, handling responsibilities according to the requirements, some of them are listed below:
  • 1. Front-end development of Reppify web and Reppify mobile iOS app.
  • 2. REST services creation & integration for Reppify mobile app development
  • 3. Candidate Referral Recommendation Engine :- Automated referrals of suggested candidates using Employees network on Social Media.
  • 5. Integration of Reppify Product with ATS like Taleo.net and CRM Like Salesforce.com
Front-end developmentREST servicesSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech — Data Science and Engineering

Jan 2021Jan 2023

Dayalbagh Educational Institute

MBA - Master of Business Administration — Information Technology Project Management

Jan 2013Jan 2016

Dayalbagh Educational Institute

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2013

Dayalbagh Educational Institute

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2012

UCSKM Public School

Senior Secondary and Secondary Education — Science

Jan 2000Jan 2009

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