Abhinav Bajaj

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expertise in scalable platform development and big data analytics.
  • Proven track record in leading high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecom expert with a strong focus on scalable systems and data processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCore Java

Other Skills

Data StructuresArchitectural DesignSoftware DesignAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementUnix Shell ScriptingJava Enterprise EditionRequirements AnalysisPL/SQLJavaStrutsC++CJSPOracle

About

• Background in Software Engineering, Information Technologies, Data Analytics. • Areas of Interest are Software Engineering, Scalable Platform Development, Big Data & Analytics, Machine Learning, High Performing team development

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Emergent

Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Building AI agentic systems for Emergent platform
  • Try at https://emergent.sh/

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · On-site

  • Senior Software Engineer at AWS RDS

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Senior Sofrware Engineer at AWS EMR
Data StructuresDistributed SystemsArchitectural DesignCore JavaSoftware Design

Here technologies

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Mar 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • ● Built a multi-tenant, self-served, fully managed platform for running location based applications built with Apache Flink & Apache Spark frameworks running on Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS cloud.
  • ● Provided technical leadership to multiple scrum teams for design, development & improvement of data processing capabilities of the HERE platform that brings yearly revenue of $Xm.
  • ● Led cross-functional platform features like simplified log access, scheduling deployments, planned maintenance management, minimal downtime upgrades & multi region availability.
  • ● Collaborated with business stakeholders on product roadmap by contributing to solution scoping, refining & effort estimations of ambiguous problems and help taking data driven roadmap decisions..
  • ● Recruited & mentored engineers into high performing individuals driving team velocity & their personal growth.

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2016Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • ● Built APIs powered by a suite of microservices to enable thousands of developers across hundreds of organizations to deploy, manage & monitor their Apache Flink & Apache Spark jobs running in a multi-az setup.
  • ● Designed and led the cross team implementation of a fully managed maintenance system enabling Platform to roll out periodic security & software upgrades on underlying infrastructure with minimum impact on customer data processing jobs, working with the constraints of 99.9% availability SLA.
  • ● Led the evolution of system architecture to a multi-region setup providing automatic recovery capabilities for the customer data processing jobs. Similar cloud platforms like AWS EMR, Databricks have single region availability.
  • ● Led the implementation of the upgrade feature allowing customers to push upgrades to running their highly available & low latency Flink jobs on the platform with processing time loss under 30 seconds.
  • ● Assisted top customers to develop highly available & scalable solutions using Stream processing capabilities of the platform.
  • ● Led the team to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • ● Extensively use test automation or Test Driven Development during development process.
  • ● Mentored and assisted junior & peer engineers into high performing contributors.

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • ● Developed and released new micro services that managed Customer offers and Customer configuration data.
  • ● Developed the Acceptance Tests framework and helped developers & QA team adopt it.
  • ● Contributed to continuous integration and deployment efforts by making release process a single button click, also pushed team to adopt Git & Jenkins and helped automating documentation using maven site plugin.
  • ● Supported production issues both directly and indirectly with customers.
  • ● Investigated, evaluated, and presented new technologies to build web applications & backend services.

Veea inc. (max2 inc)

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2014Dec 2014 · 3 mos · New York City

  • Being a startup, contributed in ideation and brainstorming for the product including designing and prototyping.
  • Developed scalable concurrent backend architecture using Play, Akka, and Apache Kafka.
  • Implemented API for exposing Kafka messaging mechanism for the analytics platform and event logging.
  • Built the backend infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, Auto Scaling and other AWS services.

Ibm t.j. watson research center

Research Intern

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Developing a scalable System Health Monitoring solution which monitors complete spectrum of heterogeneous applications and infrastructure of the research lab covering hardware, network and application layers.
  • Built a responsive dashboard based on jQuery mobile running as a web-app with backend system built on Sensu.

Columbia university in the city of new york

3 roles

Teaching Assistant for Cloud Computing and Big Data Course

Jan 2014May 2014 · 4 mos

Student

Sep 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

Research Assistant

Sep 2013Dec 2013 · 3 mos

  • Developed a tool to generate test sets simulating different case and control DNA markers. The simulator provides the first step to evaluate different Principal Component Analysis based population stratification tools.

Hydenpower

CTO

Apr 2011Feb 2012 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Played a leading role in all aspects of business development including customer acquisition, raising venture, field trips, product design and prototyping.
  • Developed the first prototype of the Electricity Theft Detection System, which uses a SVM based machine learned model, trained using data sources like electricity usage, billing data etc. to predict anomalies and detect fraud.
  • Executed field trials with power distribution companies such as North Delhi Power Limited.

Aricent group

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Project - Performance Intelligent Center (Network Monitoring System for Telecom Networks)
  • Developed major features (as part of user requirements) for web application component using GWT and J2EE.
  • Remodeled the upgrade utility web-app component which reduced the system downtime during upgrade, reduced the system’s EJB cache during upgrade and made the application more robust and responsive.
  • Mentored and trained junior members about the product architecture and technologies.
  • Nominated as Rising Star in Company Annual Awards 2011-2012
  • Rated as Best Performer for 3 consecutive years.
  • Awarded “Individual Excellence Award” and “Team Award” (Two time recipient).
  • Project - Intelligent Gateway Mobile Location Center (System for accurately positioning mobile subscribers)
  • Worked on feature enhancements for the web application in JSPs, J2EE and JUnit.
  • Developed a prototype LBS Android app to exploit system’s capability of positioning the mobile subscriber.
  • Developed simulators for GIS and Alert services to automate the unit testing of the system.

Infosys

System Engineer

Jun 2008Apr 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Project - R&D Team of STITS (Desktop Application for Steam Turbine Designing)
  • Maintained and upgraded the build infrastructure having tools like Maven, CruiseControl and Hudson.
  • Supported team of 70 developers for troubleshooting the build and release issues of their projects.
  • Created and maintained technical product documentation including training material for build tools configuration.
  • Nominated for ‘Most Valuable Player’ award.
  • Project - DART2DAC
  • Designed & developed a Java based tool to automate the upgrade and migration of database objects from legacy system having proprietary database to eMatrix PDM application having Oracle DB.

Education

Columbia University

Master of Science in Computer Science — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Panjab University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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