Shekhar Bhardwaj

Software Engineer

West Delhi, Delhi, India5 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expanded Checkout Page to 20+ international POS.
Achieved 20% more conversion rate in bookings.
Engineered auto-remediation service reducing manual oversight.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Software Engineer in the Travel Technology industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

KotlinSpring BootGraphqlJavaJwtDatadogGithub ActionsJenkins

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsApache AirflowContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data StructuresGitHTMLHibernateJMeterJSON Web Token (JWT)JUnitJavaScriptKafkaKarate

About

As a Software Development Engineer II at Expedia Group, I work on building and maintaining scalable and reliable backend services for the travel platform, using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and many more. I collaborate with other developers, testers, and product managers to deliver high-quality features and enhancements that meet the needs and expectations of millions of travelers worldwide. I have more than 2.5 years of industrial experience in software development, having started as a Software Development Engineer I at Expedia Group in Feb 2021. Before that, I was a Summer Intern at GryNow Media Private Limited, where I worked on the backend and frontend of the website. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering in 2020, where I learned the fundamentals of Java, Javascript, Algorithms, and Data Structures. I am a highly motivated and hard working professional with a learning attitude and a passion for solving complex problems. My goal is to continue to grow my skills and expertise in software development and contribute to the innovation and success of Expedia Group.

Experience

5 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

American express global business travel

Software Development Engineer 2

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Expedia group

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

1. Played a critical role in expanding the new microservices-based Checkout Page to 20+ international Points of Sale (POS), processing over 40K+ lodging and hotel bookings per day, achieving a 20% more conversion rate (CVR).
2. Implemented a ”Checkin-checkout” banner using GraphQL and Java to comply with legal requirements across international POS, supporting over 40K+ visits per day per POS.
3. Developed a localization library in Kotlin and Java to enable runtime localization of dates based on POS and locale.
4. Created a Rewards Message banner using JWT, gRPC, and GraphQL to improve conversion rate by 16%.
5. Developed GraphQL APIs for efficient content delivery to the UI while optimizing API schemas for data transfer supporting 1M+ requests monthly.
6. Built Datadog dashboards to monitor key micro-service events and APM metrics and configured custom metrics and SLOs, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) from 25 minutes to 12 minutes.
7. Streamlined deployment processes by configuring GitHub Actions, Spinnaker pipelines, and Jenkins jobs, saving 30+ hours of bandwidth monthly and enabling efficient rollbacks during failures.
8. Monitored production systems, diagnosed and resolved issues, and ensured 99.9% service uptime and optimal system performance.
9. Working on Kotlin, Spring Boot, GraphQL, DataDog, Kafka, Spring JPA, Hibernate, etc.

KotlinSpring BootGraphQLJavaJWTgRPC+4

Software Development Engineer I

Feb 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

1. Engineered an auto-remediation service in Spring Boot to continuously monitor microservices health via Datadog metrics API; achieved a reduction of manual oversight by 40 hrs/month through automated issue remediation.
2. Developed a Spring Boot application with Flyway to track 100+ Airflow jobs, improving visibility and reducing manual re-triggering by 40% through automation.
3. Developed a Spring Boot Service for daily email reporting for multiple LOBs (Meta, VR, and AIR), automating status updates with Querybook, AWS SNS, AWS Lambda, and Qubole Scheduler, enhancing transparency and minimizing on-call burden by 10%.
4. Developed a REST API to resync data in AWS S3 to access in Apache Hive, eliminating developer intervention and saving ∼28 hrs/month during application downtimes. Built on Apache Airflow and deployed on AWS ECS.

Spring BootDatadogAWSApache Airflow

Grynow media private limited

Summer Intern

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Worked on the backend and frontend of the website.

Bharati vidyapeeth's college of engineering - new delhi

Summer Intern

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 mo · India

Did 2 projects:
1st -> Prediction of Forest Cover Type from strictly cartographic values using machine learning.
2nd -> Created a visualization of restaurant ratings using machine learning and the Yelp
academic dataset. In the visualization, location has to be segmented into regions, where
each region is shaded by the predicted rating of the closest restaurant. Specifically, the
visualization was done via constructing Voronoi diagram.

Coding blocks

Training

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 · 3 mos · India

I learned basic Data Structures and Algorithms and Problem Solving using these Algos and Data Structures using C++.
I improved my problem-solving skills in competitive coding.