Himanshu Shekhar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 5+ years of experience in cloud and distributed systems.
  • Developed scalable solutions that reduced costs significantly.
  • Proven track record of winning hackathons and innovative projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with extensive experience in SaaS and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsBack-end Web DevelopmentData PipelinesGeographic Information Systems (gis)

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkBashBatch ProcessingCC (Programming Language)C++Chaos ManagementCloud ComputingCode ReviewComputer ScienceConcurrent Programming

About

Software Engineer with a knack for simple solutions and a customer-first approach. I have an experience of 5+ years working on cloud/backend/distributed systems. Languages: Scala, Java, Python, Golang, JavaScript, C, C++ Technologies: AWS, GCP, Docker, Linux Interests: Distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, backend engineering, operating systems

Experience

6 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Databricks

Senior Software Engineer

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Alteryx

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Alteryx is a no-code platform for data analysts to prepare and analyze data.
  • Part of the Cloud Engines team, responsible for planning, orchestrating, and executing batch
  • jobs across Spark, data warehouses, and Kubernetes.
  • Contributed to building an extensible pushdown framework for SQL warehouses (BigQuery,
  • Snowflake, Databricks SQL), enabling optimizations such as column pruning, filter pushdown,
  • and multi-database support. It makes jobs run 20x faster than traditional Spark jobs.
  • Developed a scalable distributed DAG orchestrator using Redis Streams, reducing costs
  • by $100k+ annually and improving reliability for high-scale concurrent operations.
  • Contributed to major re-architecture efforts of Trifacta’s platform services post-Alteryx
  • acquisition, enhancing agility, performance, and domain separation for Alteryx Designer Cloud.
  • Won 4 hackathons; prototyped solutions using DuckDB, Clickhouse, and WebAssembly for
  • faster and more cost-efficient data processing.
KubernetesRedisSpring MVCProblem SolvingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Pushdowns+11

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Nov 2021Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Alteryx acquired Trifacta in Feb 2022 which made me part of the zero-to-one journey of Alteryx's entrance to the cloud.
Data PipelinesSpring MVCProblem SolvingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Unit TestingDistributed Systems+9

Software Engineer

Jun 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Trifacta is a cloud-based data-preparation platform for data engineers and analysts.
  • I joined the India team at an early point, learning a lot from zero to one projects, gaining ownership over time and having a great time with amazing and highly-skilled people.
AlgorithmsSpring MVCProblem SolvingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Unit TestingDistributed Systems+8

Remotehost

Co-Founder

May 2021Jan 2022 · 8 mos

  • Frustrated by the slow and tiring onboarding and builds on a laptop, I decided to build cloud dev environments for engineering teams.
  • Built an MVP using AWS, TypeScript, React and Golang with 2 co-founders.
  • Pitched to people in my network and investors from some top VCs to get feedback.
  • Learned a lot in a very short time but had to let it go since GitHub CodeSpaces became much better and the M1 Chip was released.
Problem SolvingBack-End Web Development

Indian institute of information technology allahabad

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2019Dec 2019 · 4 mos · Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Sumo logic

Software Consultant

May 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Sumo Logic is a cloud-based machine data analytics platform.
  • I was the part of data-collection team which owns a highly available, multi-tenant distributed data-ingestion pipeline that ingests 300+ TB data every single day, and can scale up to 4 PB/day.
  • Worked on ingestion infra written in Scala/Java that runs on AWS, heavily utilising tools as S3, EC2, RPCs, SOA, zookeeper, Elasticcache, DynamoDB, ELB, etc.
  • Contributed to the beta-release of archive intelligence to ingest only the logs you query over. This reduces costs for customers by more than 100x depending on use.
  • Worked on the beta-release of observability for collectors, letting customers know the health of their log sources.
  • Been part of on-call rotations and handled production releases.
Spring MVCProblem SolvingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Unit TestingDistributed SystemsLinux+4

Isro - indian space research organization

Investigator

Feb 2019Aug 2019 · 6 mos

  • Worked on Speaking Geo-GP Assistant, a voice-based Android assistant to help policymakers drive decisions with geospatial data from ISRO.
  • I was responsible for building a voice-based interactive system and implement queries over geographical data in PostGIS.
  • The project was offered to the team being the runner-ups at Smart India Hackathon, 2018 to turn the hack to a usable product.
Problem SolvingGeographic Information Systems (GIS)DjangoPostgreSQL

Socialcops

2 roles

Backend Engineering Intern

Dec 2018Dec 2018 · 0 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Dockerized all (18) apps/microservices of Collect (a mobile data-collection app) for single-step local setup and on-prem deployment.
  • Created a crawler for Parse (Mongodb) which resolves all pointers (foriegn keys) and prepares a minimal dump of the database for bootstrap based on given filters. This approach reduces local DB size down from 20+ GB to 2 MB.
Problem Solving

Backend Engineering Intern

Jun 2017Jul 2017 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Built the product toolbox, a Python SDK over MongoDB to help internal engineering and support teams see customer data from a web interface without writing queries on database.
  • Built a tool to generate an on-demand performance report for the support team - SLAs, ticket statistics, etc.
Problem Solving

Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Dual Degree

Jan 2015Jan 2020

G. N. National Public School

Senior Secondary School — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2015

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