Ajay Jalgaonkar

Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India5 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led migration to gRPC, enhancing performance significantly.
Developed key features driving substantial revenue growth.
Mentored multiple junior engineers, fostering team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in E-commerce with expertise in Distributed Systems.

Contact

ajaypj@iitk.ac.in LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsJavaMachine Learning

Other Skills

AI ServiceAPI DesignAPI IntegrationAWSAlgorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache ZooKeeperBashC++Concurrent ProgrammingData StructuresDockerDocument ParsingElasticSearch

About

Primary owner of the Order Management System (OMS) in Flipkart, with 5+ yrs of experience in designing and maintaining highly-scalable, low-latency, distributed systems.

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Flipkart

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3)

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Owned and collaborated for initiatives - Flipkart Minutes, Price Lock, and Group Buying (Revenue = 1000 Cr/yr)
Drove profitability features - Platform Fee, Rain Fee, Packaging Charges, Return Fee, GST Invoicing (Revenue = 800 Cr/yr)
Migrated OMS and Entity Manager to gRPC, supporting 2M+ RPS, reducing API latency by 60%, resource usage by 30%.

Distributed SystemsJavagRPCAPI DesignProfitability Features

SDE-2

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Developed Entity Manager (EM) service from scratch with proto-based CRUD, Schema Registry, and multi-DC replication. Onboarded 4+ teams to EM.
Built AI service for automating OMS on-call queries via email/JIRA categorization and API integration, cutting on-call load by 70%.
Contributed to Big Billion Days Readiness 2020-2025.
Onboarded 1 SDE3, mentored 3 SDE2s, 4 SDE1s, 2 AEs to the OMS team.
Received Exceeds Expectations Rating for multiple PD cycles and appreciation for gRPC projects in Flipkart All Hands.

Entity ManagerAI ServicegRPCMulti-DC ReplicationMentoringDistributed Systems+1

SDE-1

Jul 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Set up 100+ instances of Kafka, Zookeeper, HBase, and Kubernetes clusters for OMS, Entity Manager, and B2B services.
20+ contributions to open source GRPC-Jexpress - a jetty-based server supporting both HTTP and GRPC- used in Flipkart.
Led 20+ RCAs, migrations, and resolutions of malicious incidents.
Implemented Zstd compression algorithm on order data, reducing data footprint by 27%.

KafkaZookeeperHBaseKubernetesZstd CompressionDistributed Systems

Pariksha

Software Development Intern

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos

Built a real-time chat room using WSS socket connections and Golang channels for concurrent message handling. Tested in live classes with 50+ students.

GolangWebSocketConcurrent Programming

Flipkart

Software Development Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos

Benchmarked Elasticsearch vs. Solr performance on live orders (10M+ records), evaluating indexing speed, regex search, and aggregation - resulted in 30% lower latencies for Elasticsearch.

ElasticsearchSolrPerformance Benchmarking

Pariksha

Software Development Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos

Vernacular MSWord Parsing System: Developed a service using Python, CakePHP, and AWS (S3, Lambda, SQS) to extract test questions from docx files. Service used for creating 100+ question banks.

PythonAWSDocument Parsing