Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

Backend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building observability stacks and distributed systems.
Contributed to major open source projects like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Observability and Distributed Systems within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObserverabilitySoftware ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (aws)OpentelemetryTeam ManagementProduct ManagementPython (programming Language)React NativeNode.js

Other Skills

Software InfrastructureFilebeatPrometheusGrafanaOTeL collectorInfluxDBgolangKubernetesPrometheus.ioGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)ScalaJavaOTLP formatCode ReviewMySQL

About

I am passionate about problem-solving, ideating and building products. I have 5+ yrs of professional experience in the software industry. I've helped build and maintain distributed systems and worked on creating APM tools and building highly performant observability stacks for Distributed systems. Open Source (Contributor and Member): - Kubernetes - OpenTelemetry - Istio - ScoreLab Backend: - Golang (advance, language of choice) - C/C++ (intermediate) - Rust (intermediate) - Java (intermediate) - Python (intermediate) Storage: - Apache Druid - InfluxDB - Clickhouse - S3 Experience with OSS tools: ArgoCD, FluxCD, Kafka, Jaeger, Prometheus, Elastic, Grafana, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, OpenTelemetry Languages: Golang, Java, C++, Python, Pearl and Node.js Infrastructure stack: GKE, AKS, K8s, OpenTelemetry, Istio, Terraform, Pulumi, Kafka

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Odigos

Senior Core Backend Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Coralogix

Product Reliability Engineer

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 · 6 mos · London UK · Remote

Signoz

Founding Engineer

Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

(YC-W21) Working on building the next gen of observability tools.

Adyen

Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – Mar 2024 · 3 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Worked for Platform Observability team to improve internal observability stack using open source tools like Filebeat, Prometheus, Grafana LGTM stack, and OTeL collector.
Worked for setting up autoscaling of different components and introduced PII data redaction in tracing pipeline.

Software InfrastructureObserverabilitySoftware Architecture

Google summer of code

2 roles

Mentor

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos

Mentored 3 projects in ScoreLab during Google Summer of Code 2021
Maintained SCoRe Lab ecosystem and guided 25+ students for their contributions

Code ReviewTeam ManagementProduct Management

Full Stack Software Engineer

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Remote

Engineered command-line mobile forensic tool OpenMF in Python
Implemented frontend for OpenMF from scratch using React
Implemented backend in Flask and desgined REST APIs to facilitate CRUD operations on collected forensic data, added new features
Tech: Python, Android, React, MySQL

React NativePython (Programming Language)MySQL

Appdynamics

Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Awarded by Senior Engineering Lead, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Principal Software Engineer and fellow Software Engineers for my contribution in Log collection agent, Java agent, and Opensource at AppDynamics
Developed Log Collector Agent designed to collect, compress, and export log data in OTLP format, achieved 5M+ logs per hour in prod
Created Common Ingestion Service by OpenTelemetry Collector to aggregate telemetry from Kubernetes, processing ~20M+ events/h
Improved agent performance by ~20% by implementing custom log harvester using concurrency pattern via go routines in Golang
Added framework support for Play, Wso2, Cassandra, and Tomcat in Java agent for auto instrumentation whlie working in APM Java
Research and designing for adding support for observability of WASM modules running in wasmtime runtime using Observe-SDK
Used AWS , GCP services like EKS , GKE , S3, Lambda, Container registry, IAM roles and learned multi cluster multi tenancy models

Amazon Web Services (AWS)GrafanaInfluxDBgolangopentelemetryKubernetes+4

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Software Engineer

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Researched and implemented efficient Scheduling algorithm suitable for lock code scheduling in Samsung Smart Things Cloud
Developed RESTful backend in Node.js, integrated OAuth using encrypted user data from DynomoDB, ensured high performance
Improved the backend to serve 7M+ rps, efficiency increase ~35%
Tech: Node.js, DynomoDB, OAuth, AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Node.js

Indian institute of technology, roorkee

2 roles

Joint Secretary

Dec 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 mo

Core Memeber Artificial Intelligence and Electronics section (ArIES) IIT Roorkee

Jul 2016 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs

Indian institute of technology, madras

Technology for Soldier support, DRDO (IIT Madras)

Sep 2017 – Jan 2018 · 4 mos

Represented IIT Roorkee for Inter IIT Techmeet-2018 at IITM for the problem statement "Technology for Soldier suppor" by Defence research and Development Organization (DRDO).
Designed a localization system for real time position estimation of soldiers with Gesture communication facility.
Developed hardware for VHF/UHF transmission of encrypted video from battlefield to basecamp
Integrated the Health Monitoring, Localization subsystems with the Raspberry Pi based latch on device on each soldier.