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Arpit Varshney

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Saved over $10 million annually through optimizations.
  • Led cross-regional projects and mentored engineers.
  • Founding Engineer for LinkedIn's Ingestion & Control Plane team.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Data Infrastructure and Cloud Services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsData InfrastructureWeb DevelopmentReact.js

Other Skills

Apache KafkaApache FlinkApache IcebergApache SparkData IngestionData LakeExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Big DataHiveJavaRESTful architectureMySQLControl PlaneCost SavingsDropwizard

About

◦ Senior Backend Engineer with over eight years of expertise in designing and developing distributed systems. ◦ Specialized in building scalable control and data planes for data infrastructure and enterprise-grade solutions. ◦ Skilled in scaling and delivering robust cloud management platforms, and scaling ETL pipelines & web applications. ◦ Proven track record of saving $10 million+ annually through infrastructure, resource, and process optimizations. ◦ Experienced in leading cross-regional projects and mentoring engineers across the product lifecycle in agile workflows. ◦ Founding Engineer of LinkedIn India Ingestion & Control Plane team, driving service transitions & team ramp-up.

Experience

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

Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru · Remote

Uber

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2025Feb 2026 · 4 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Linkedin

Senior Software Engineer

May 2021Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built and scaled Next-Gen Kafka Ingestion pipelines, enabling the ingestion of 10 trillion messages/day (∼1PB/day) into an exabyte-scale Hadoop data lake with near real-time latency and exactly-once guarantees.
  • Engineered a self-serve Cloud Management platform to provision, manage, and monitor over 30 LinkedIn infrastructure resources.
  • Leading development of feature tracks, orchestrating technical solutions, and mentoring engineers.
  • ◦ Saved $5 million annually by seamlessly migrating 10,000 Ingestion Topics
  • from aggregate Kafka clusters to local Kafka without downtime, optimizing resource utilization.
  • ◦ Reduced costs by $1.6 million immediately and $300,000 annually by architecting an automated cleanup service to decommission obsolete LinkedIn datastore resources.
  • ◦ Saved $2 million annually by collaborating with global teams to redesign Espresso datastore provisioning and bucketing algorithms, optimizing cluster storage and compute resources.
  • ◦ Improved system scalability and operational efficiency by reducing API call bottlenecks (97% reduction) during startup and eliminating OOM issues in open-source Gobblin data retention jobs, and transitioning long-running workflows (∼21 days) to Temporal with added safeguards.
Apache KafkaApache FlinkDistributed SystemsApache IcebergApache SparkData Ingestion+10

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2020May 2021 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Improved accessibility for 100 million+ users by pioneering vernacular support in 4 Indian languages during the Big Billion Sale, implementing an intuitive inline translation interface for translational writers, and revamping the client library for real-time push-asynchronous messaging.
  • ◦ Enhanced performance observability and simplified codebases by designing a pluggable
  • library to collect app metrics dynamically, reducing manual intervention and maintaining lightweight architecture
DropwizardHazelcastReact.jsJavaMySQLRESTful architecture+1

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Jun 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Software Engineer I

Aug 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Worked as a Full Stack Developer for Cloud Based Webex-CC and on-premise UCCX Contact Centers
  • Developed REST API's to mask sensitive information in chats and emails using akka-http.
  • Worked on storing the recording files in S3 buckets.
  • Simplified Licensing Experience by integrating Cisco's Smart Software Licensing
  • Implemented License Computation Algorithm and pushing the statistics to cloud service.
  • Developed end to end Single Page Application for Supervisors using React and Redux.
  • Implemented Scheduling and Matching algorithms to manage Agents based on the skills
  • Created a tool to do critical health checks on system.
  • Created an internal tool to manage IP Addresses across entire Business Unit.

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2017Jul 2017 · 6 mos

  • Worked with the Service Provider team to enhance the troubleshooting capability of Cisco ASR903/907 routers.
  • Developed an infrastructure for in-memory log stacking.
  • Implemented per-object micro logging feature.
  • Responsible for running unit tests & regression tests.

Sprinklr

Summer Intern

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Improved cost efficiency by building Mock Servers for mocking Twitter APIs.
  • Replicated the Responses of Twitter Rest API’s endpoints.
  • Reverse engineered twitter data structure and Rest service.

Education

PES University

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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