About

Abhinav Katiyar is an experienced technology leader with expertise in search, distributed computing, high QPS serving, data mining, web crawling, microservices, SOA, DDD, distributed systems, and machine learning. He is currently the EVP & Head of Technology at Shiksha.com (InfoEdge), where he is responsible for heading the technology team and building next-generation products to strengthen the company's leadership position as a one-stop solution for course-college selection by students looking to pursue undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses in India and abroad. Abhinav has a strong background in research and has published papers in prestigious conferences and journals. He has expertise in various technologies such as OS (FreeBSD, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), back-end (Java/Spring Boot, Perl, Python, PHP, Shell Script), front-end (JQuery, Angular, Bootstrap, React, React Native, Redux), application servers (Apache, Tomcat, Tux, LightHttpd, Nginx, Node), relational databases (MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDb, Cassandra, Hbase on top of HDFS), queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka), distributed computing (Hadoop, Hbase, Map-Reduce, PIG, Hive, Spark), search (Lucene, Solr, Machine Learned Ranking (MLR), Top Results Re-ranking Algorithms), cache (Memcached, Redis), load balancers (HAProxy, Nginx), and cloud (GCP, AWS). Abhinav's past experiences include co-founding Healcon.com, a global healthcare platform that uses machine-learned ranking algorithms to predict the strength of the bond between doctors and their claimed skill set, and heading technologies at Rocket Internet India/APAC ventures, where he led the development of online companies such as Jabong.com, Fabfurnish.com, and FoodPanda.in. Abhinav holds a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. He is a senior software engineer who has worked with technologies such as dotNET, AWS, HDFS, deep learning, Spark, Redis, RabbitMQ, ML, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring, Redux, microservices, GCP, frontend, backend, web, Apache Hive, Python, Java, React Native, and AngularJS. With 19.04 years of