Kaivalya Apte

Software Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany15 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in software product development.
Expert in distributed systems and cloud technologies.
Mentor for aspiring engineers and tech enthusiasts.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSCore JavaData StructuresDistributed SystemsDockerEclipseElasticSearchEnglish GrammarEnglish writingHTMLJ2EE Application DevelopmentJ2EE Web Services

About

15+ years of experience in crafting software products backed by highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant distributed systems written in Java/Scala built on top of Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, MySql and Postgres. Extensive experience in interviewing Senior Engineers. Helped many individuals achieve their goals by mentoring them. Send me an email at speakwithkv@gmail.com. I also run a YouTube channel called “The GeekNarrator” where I talk about technology, software engineering, learning and a lot more other topics. Please follow on your favourite app. Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/TheGeekNarrator?sub_confirmation=1 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/2peu9OpezlFKIqjUIUZKVq?si=Y-lMBgBjSBqKyqrPWcp7tA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-geeknarrator/id1619407689

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Personio

Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Platform and Site Reliability Engineering

Hubspot

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer - SRE

Apr 2023 – Oct 2023 · 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Focusing on all things reliability. Making most critical services at HubSpot more reliable.

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Berlin, Germany

Messaging Product Group | Building a messaging infrastructure for sending transactional, conversational and marketing messages at super high scale.

The geeknarrator

Podcaster/YouTuber

Jun 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Berlin, Germany

I bring for the viewers, amazing insights into Software Engineering and Tech. Sparking curiosity, excitement and inspiration is my goal.

Twilio inc.

Software Development Engineer 3

Jul 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Twilio IOT SuperSIM - High Scale Kafka based Streaming Architecture. Usage and Billing 🤑

Zalando se

Software Engineer - Backend

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

Writing Microservices for Zalando Plus

Symantec

Software Development Engineer 3

Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

Building the cloud platform on AWS.

Sears india

Senior Software Developer

Aug 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Building E-Commerce platform, using open source technologies.
Improving Order Management System at Sears to fulfill various types of orders from Sears, Kmart, Shop Sears, B2B and other sites/stores with complete reliability and efficiency.

Amazon

Application Engineer

Mar 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

Build new features for various digital products at Amazon.com. Debug production issues.

Infosys

Software Engineer

Oct 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Developing modules for Credit reporting company Equifax.com. Extending the modules to add more features/products to the site and enhance customer experience.
Maintaining the system and performing product deployment sanity.Writing scripts to generate reports.