About

Arpit Adlakha is a Senior Software Engineer at Quizizz with over 5 years of experience in solving engineering problems at scale for companies such as Gojek, Groupon, and Zscaler. He has a strong background in designing and developing performance-driven, distributed systems, and is proficient in a variety of programming languages, including C, CPP, Java, Nodejs, React, and Javascript. Arpit is skilled in using various tools and technologies, such as SQL, NoSQL, Data Structures and Algorithms, Redis, Kafka, ExpressJs, Postgres, MySQL, ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, MongoDB, CI/CD Jenkins, Gitlabs CI/CD, ELK stack, Splunk, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Nginx, and HAProxy. Arpit has experience in designing, developing, and managing data-intensive, scalable, reactive distributed system software. He is a quick learner and passionate about learning new things in tech. He has a strong presence on Github and Twitter, where he shares his work and insights on the latest trends in software engineering. Currently, Arpit is working at Gojek, where he is responsible for creating service mesh using Gloo Edge/Istio for migration of applications from VM/adhoc k8s deployments to standard Kubernetes deployments. He is also managing DNS and creating appropriate network topologies for the mesh. Additionally, he has created deployment/infrastructure/orchestration registry/management microservices, simplifying the deployment pipeline for the whole company. Prior to his current role, Arpit worked as a Mentor at Crio.do, where he helped different teams envision, design, and implement their ideas into working software. He also worked as a Software Developer II at Groupon, handling typical e-commerce problems and creating and maintaining highly scalable, maintainable, server-side applications. Arpit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra. He is proficient in a variety of tech stacks, including Java, CI/CD, Javascript, Kubernetes, NodeJS, SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, infra, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kafka, Jenkins, Integration, Terraform, Microservices, AWS, Web, NLP, Postgres, Search, Backend, and test. With 8.95 years of relevant experience, Arpit is a skilled software engineer who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems and keeping up with the latest trends in technology.