Arpit Bhayani

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience in backend service scaling.
Led engineering teams at Google and Unacademy.
Creator and maintainer of DiceDB, an open-source database.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with extensive experience in Cloud Computing and Data Engineering.

Contact

arpitbbhayani@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software Development

Other Skills

AJAXAlgorithmsAndroidCC++CSSCore JavaData StructuresDatabase DesignDatabasesDistributed SystemsGitGo (Programming Language)HTMLHTML 5

About

I am a software engineer and an engineering leader passionate about Databases, System Architecture, and Advanced Algorithms. I am also the creator and maintainer of DiceDB - an open source in-memory database. In 2024, I took a leap of faith and co-founded Profile.fyi, which was later acquired by Mercor. Today, I am a Staff Engineer at Google, leading the Ads Forecasting. Before this, I had led the Dataproc India team, where we built a managed big data ecosystem for GCP customers, enabling them to handle data at scale seamlessly. Earlier in my journey, I was part of Amazon's Fast Data Team, where I worked on cold tiering of hot data and developed a seamless query interface across all storage tiers. I held engineering leadership positions (both IC and management) at Unacademy, where I built, grew, and led Search, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, and Data Engineering teams. I hold a total of 10+ years of experience in scaling backend services, taking products and teams from 0 to 1, and beyond. I keep diving deep into engineering details and share my learnings by across my socials and videos on YouTube.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

GCP Memorystore - Building next generation of in-mem databases
DV360 Forecasting and Planning

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I worked for GCP Dataproc which provides managed spark and an entire buffet of open source big data stack. Dataproc is one of the most critical offerings available in GCP and I was super fortunate to lead the India charter.
During my stint at Google, I got to work on four really interesting technical problem statements, they were
1. building a remote shuffle service for Spark
2. building a compute resource manager for Spark
3. capture and serve data lineage for any Spark job
4. making Dataproc compliant to operate across any geography
One fun initiative I started and led was called "Dataproc Shorts" where our engineers posted a short video about the internal workings of Dataproc every week. This bite-sized content helped in building a crisp knowledge repository and gave engineers the necessary visibility across a wider org.

Profile.fyi (acquired by mercor)

Co-Founder

Jan 2024 – Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Unacademy

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos

Led infrastructure and SaaS cost optimization drive and saved $1M USD MoM
Led architecting and building of Data Lake
Led the mission-critical data migration from a managed to hosted CRM
Built the platform to power real-time user-facing analytics using Apache Pinot

Software Development

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Laid the foundation of SRE and set up a team of 7 engineers
Building Data Lake to streamline central data discovery and data query
Conceptualized the platform to power real-time user-facing analytics
Designed and built in-house a secret management
Led efforts to set up a cross-region development environment
Led the development of internal tools to boost Dev Productivity
Led efforts to improve overall infrastructure utilization by 22%
Leading the efforts to make Unacademy an aspirational tech brand
Drove engineering campus recruitments for 2021-22
Drove efforts in making the infrastructure, secure, and GDPR Compliant
Mentorship, PIP, Devising Roadmap, Charter, and Vision of the team

Software Development

Principal Engineer

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 · 6 mos

Built a Gamification Engine that rewards learners for their watch time
Built a Home Feed engine improving platform engagement by 30%
Fought a data breach and drove short and long-term security initiatives
Initiated and drove efforts for Monolith to Micro-services migration
Mentoring Backend and Infrastructure Engineers

Software Development

Technical Architect

Feb 2018 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs

Lead the Engineering team to model services at scale
Built the notifications system serving 1B notifications every day
Designed and developed a generic and extensible Search platform
Bettered the result relevance which improved CTR by ~42%
Designed Log archival and Visualization system
Built an entity and intent identification service
Tech: Golang, Python, Elasticsearch, NLP

Software Development

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Developed a service that puts infrequently accessed data in cold tier
Created streamlined and seamless access for Hot and Cold Data
Bootstrapped a generic data pipeline platform for Amazon Retail
Developed a platform that enables auto-healing of services in despair
Tech: Java, DynamoDB, S3, EMR

Software Development

Practo

2 roles

Sr. Software Engineer Platform Engineering

Apr 2016 – Nov 2016 · 7 mos

Developed the tool that enables incremental release of products
Built the product that identifies anomalies in real time
Built the core database service that ensures high horizontal scalability and high availability
Tech: Python, Flask, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Boto3

Software Development

Software Engineer Platform Engineering

Sep 2015 – Mar 2016 · 6 mos

Honoured with Star Employee Award
Built the tool used for dummy data population across products
Built the tool used for managing and provisioning staging environment, instances and infrastructure
Zero downtime and Zero impact migration of Practo's Staging Infrastructure to a different AWS Region.
Tech: Puppet, Vagrant, Python, Flask, Boto3, Semantic UI

Software Development

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2014 – May 2015 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Saba

Software Associate

Jul 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr · Yerwada Pune

Head developer of Offline reviews feature and Language Check feature of Saba’s SPC product at Saba Software Pvt. Ltd.
Roles: API design and development, Performance improvement, Refactoring and design database schema and Bugs fixing.
Experience in:
Analysis and design of databases and user interfaces and managing requirements.
Implementing software development life cycle policies and procedures.
Managing and supporting multiple projects.
Highly adaptable in quickly changing technical environments with very organizational and analytical skills.
Worked in Java EJB, Database design, Product design and Performance improvement.
Notable work done:
Integrated ApachePOI library providing an exclusive feature - Offline Review in Saba SPC.
Creating On-The-Fly excel to support offline review.
Working as RnD developer to increase performance and include features in company products.

Tcs innovation lab, trddc

Project Trainee

Jun 2011 – May 2012 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Project: Precise Detection of Uninitialised Variables using Dynamic Analysis - Extending to Aggregate and Vector Types.
Identified Memory Leaks and Uninitialised variables in C based program/applications using Dynamic Binary Instrumentation.
Received “Best Project Presentation” award for this project.