Pulkit Sharva

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led backend development for a major fintech product.
  • Scaled systems to handle millions of users and transactions.
  • Expert in building high-performance, scalable applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Development expert in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentPayment SystemsScalabilityFull Stack Development

Other Skills

AJAXAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApache StormApplication ArchitectureContinuous IntegrationCore JavaCouchbaseData ArchitectureData StructuresDatabasesDesign PatternsDropwizardElasticSearchGalera Cluster

About

Startup enthusiast guy with 10+ years of experience in leading software development technologies. My areas of functional expertise ranges from e-commerce Start-Ups , Payment domain, Ride Hailing Service, Social Media. I have always loved to work on challenging projects and have contributed to overall growth of the organisation. I enjoy traveling, talking about the future of web, payments, ecommerce and how to further improve a product for emerging markets, so if you want to share your thoughts with me feel free to contact me: pulkit.sharva@gmail.com

Experience

13 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • Working on Horizon Worlds to create immersive experiences that change the game.

Getyourguide

Senior Backend Engineer

May 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Paytm

Technical Lead

Mar 2018Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Tech owner of backend system of Paytm's Postpaid which is a Pay Later product. Postpaid is a credit line product for consumers where a line is allocated to the customer which he can utilize it to spend across Paytm env for booking travel, movie tickets, mobile bill, Paytm mall etc. I have worked on integration with ICICI to launch the product, Pre-Auth for Uber, Alibaba's team for auto-debit, and for collections recovery. Built a highly scalable and high-performance system and scaled it from 25000 to 11.3 million users. Currently, this system is doing more than 100K transactions per day.
  • Also, I have developed other feature for Paytm like chat, providing Paytm score to other lenders which are a deciding factor in issuing personal loans to the customer
  • Tech Used: Dropwizard, Hibernate, SpringBoot, NodeJS, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, Pandas, Apache Storm
DropwizardHibernateSpringBootNodeJSElasticSearchRedis+5

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

SDE II

Feb 2016Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked for Tier1 services like booking allotments, inventory state management, capturing and processing of device position and status updates & category preferences etc that come under Booking Experience.
  • Built a highly scalaable systems with a deep focus on driver experience. These systems are operating at a throughput of ~300k rpm. Involved in writing code from scratch, design and architecture, code reviews, product spec reviews.
  • Also developed an in-house tool which was used to push configuration dynamically on production server to improve AB testing for product team.
  • Tech Used: NodeJS, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Redis, Kafka, Lambda, Rx Java, MySQL

Helpchat

Full Stack Developer

Jul 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Helpchat aka Tapzo, formerly known as Akosha, is a chat based personal assistant app that helps you get more things done. Been an early member of Tech I have worked on payments, chat, social media tracking etc. Some of the projects were Social Dashboard for brands to resolve customer complaints, Chat backend which enables brand expert to chat with customers in Real Time, Payments & Order Management System which drove the other vertical of companies like recharge, food , cab booking , movies etc.
  • Also I have worked on Facebook GraphAPI, Twitter API, PubNub.
  • Tech Used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Couchbase, Redis, Kafka, ElasticSearch, NGINX, HAProxy, Ansible, Jenkins.

Syntel

Software Engineer

Dec 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • 1. Writing and maintaining code using technical specifications to update existing application and to develop new application.
  • 2. Utilized programming principles, tools, and techniques to write application codes.
  • 3. Applied analytical, technical and programmatic skills to resolve application related issues
  • 4. Review codes to identify any basic errors.
  • 5. Provide technical and functional support to testing teams. .
  • 6. Designing custom functions.
  • 7. Worked on front end validations.
  • 8. Worked with performance engineer to fine tune the application

Education

Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

B.E. — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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