About

Dheeraj Tyagi is a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead with over 12 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at Meta as a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead in External Data Misuse (EDM) Team. Dheeraj has a vast experience of working on highly scalable distributed applications. He has majorly been working on scaling backend applications for the scale of multi-billion records. His specialties include Distributed Systems, System Design, Ideation, Java, Problem Solving, Innovation, and Data Structures. He has a clear and unambiguous communication style, quick troubleshooting skills and a detail-oriented approach to his work. Prior to his current role, Dheeraj worked as a Software Engineer at Meta in the ingestion team of catalog. He was responsible for storing all Meta ecosystem's products related information of around 150 billion items. He designed and implemented solutions to make the system scalable so that it could process around 40 billion items per day while maintaining a high success rate of ingestion and low latencies. Dheeraj has also worked as a Senior Technical Lead at Paytm, where he set up a new team for a new project named POS (point of sale) from scratch. He took complete ownership of the end-to-end software development life cycle management for this project. He built highly scalable asynchronous file downloading and distributed systems to migrate merchant data from legacy systems to new systems. He also designed and developed an end-to-end multiple jobs handling system for Paytm payments system. Dheeraj holds a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. His tech stack includes Java, Spring, Backend, MySQL, Spring Boot, Kafka, Parts-of-speech, and DevOps. With 11.86 years of relevant experience, Dheeraj is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions.