About

Chirag Aggarwal is a skilled polyglot engineer with a wealth of experience in building scalable distributed systems, including both back-ends and front-ends. He has worked across various teams and engineering disciplines in one of the fastest-growing startups in South-East Asia. Currently, he is working at gojek as an Engineering - Platform, where he is responsible for building a developer platform for managing and administering micro-services. He is also managing, supporting, and scaling a self-hosted Kubernetes running 100+ micro-services. Furthermore, he is integrating Prometheus and Cortex to scale the telemetry infrastructure and enabling developers to simplify deployments and building processes to accelerate application delivery. Chirag has previously worked at gojek as Lead Software Engineer - Marketplace Pricing and Senior Software Engineer - Driver Allocations. In his previous roles, he was responsible for designing and building complex systems, such as the Driver Allocation System in Clojure, which allocated 1 million drivers to customers in real-time. He also developed the Driver Location Engine in Golang, which was responsible for querying the nearby available drivers at a throughput of 1 million RPM. He has extensive experience in integrating system-wide monitoring and alerting using Telegraf, Capacitor, and InfluxDB. Furthermore, he has set up and scaled service, database, and cache infrastructure for various microservices. Chirag is highly skilled in Golang, Microservices, infra, Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineering, Ruby, test, AWS, Mobile, Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Spring, GCP, Frontend, Backend, and Java. He has a total of 7.94 years of relevant experience.