Himanshu Chhikara

Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India4 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced API latency by 73% at DP World.
Delivered features impacting 180+ countries at Amazon.
Mentored peers and improved code quality.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in SaaS and E-commerce.

Contact

chhikarahimanshu21@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

JavaMicroservicesUnit TestingData Structures

Other Skills

JiraJUnitC#Object Oriented DesignMultithreadingCoding StandardsRDBMSTime ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTMLInterpersonal SkillsREST APIsApache KafkaPostgreSQL

About

I’m a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and scaling microservices at DP World, Amazon, and OYO. I specialize in building high-performance, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, with a focus on performance engineering and clean architecture. I enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, mentoring teammates, and collaborating across teams to deliver production-grade systems.

Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Dp world

Group Software Development Engineer 1

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Reduced API latency by 73% (2.7s → 730ms) through async processing, indexing, and MapStruct.
Designed Dangerous Goods (DG) workflow with automated approvals and notifications, improving compliance and reducing manual effort.
Led Carrier Booking module development with INTTRA API integration and event-driven architecture.
Achieved 90% test coverage across core services.

JavaMicroservices

Amazon

Software Development Engineer 1

Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Delivered “Set as Default” feature for address management, enhancing UX across 180+ countries and 27+ localized features.
Mitigated Spelljacking attacks, strengthening data security for customer addresses.
Automated chaos experiments to validate fault tolerance and service resilience.
Rewired Language APIs, reducing mismatch errors and improving reliability.
Actively contributed to on-call rotations and code reviews, ensuring operational excellence.

JavaUnit Testing

Oyo

2 roles

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 7 mos · Remote

Part of active development in the finance tech team that powers 460,000 rooms in eight countries (and counting!)
Merged the calculation stack for both India and global, which reduced 65% time in recon calculation.

JavaJira

Software Developer Internship

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · 6 mos · Remote

Leveraged Knowledge in Java and SpringBoot.
Most of my work was on the backend side using java and spring-boot.
Developed universal Ka�ka service that shares Ka�ka with the segmentation team and searching for hotels is being filtered using these details every month.
Helped in Debugging and Applying better code quality for the application.

JavaJira

Pepcoding education private limited

Teacher Assistant

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · Delhi, India

Worked as a Teacher Assistant in the Job Switch Program.
Resolved doubts in data structures, algorithms and Java Concepts.
Helped students to improve their code quality, debugging and problem solving skills.
It was fun working there, people were very helpful, encouraging and easily approachable.
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