About

Dhumil Agarwal is a highly skilled Technical Lead at Arcesium, a DE Shaw Group company. With eight years of experience in Backend Development and Data Engineering, Dhumil is an expert in Software Development and System design. He is proficient in Java, Scala, Python, Data Structures, Algorithms, low level and high level System design, and has expertise in Distributed Systems and Software Architectures. In addition, he has three years of experience in big data technologies like Kafka, Secor, Snowflake, Spark, Presto, and Dask. Dhumil has a Master's degree from BITS Pilani, with a focus on Computer Science and Software Systems. He has also completed the General Management Programme at IIM Bangalore, where he developed his leadership skills and gained business acumen. Dhumil has built functional business knowledge and soft skills required to lead technical teams. As a Team Leader and Scrum Master for the Machine Learning Platform Team of Ten members, Dhumil has mentored 35 Software Engineers and 5 interns with experience ranging from 0-8 years. He has interviewed 90+ candidates for SDE, Senior SDE, and Data Engineer positions. Dhumil is skilled in popular cloud-based systems Microsoft Azure and AWS, and has earned the Azure Developer Associate AZ-204, Azure Data Engineer Associate DP-200 and DP-201, and Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 certifications from Microsoft. Dhumil has worked with several companies, including Scaler Academy, where he mentored Software Engineers in Competitive Programming, System Design, and interview preparations. He was also a Software Engineer II - Machine Learning Platform at Blue Yonder, where he was responsible for driving the design and implementation of multi-tenant web services that can run Machine Learning models at scale. Dhumil's education history includes a General Management Programme for Young Leaders from IIM Bangalore, a Master's degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. Dhumil's TechStack includes Senior Software Engineer, Azure, AWS, ML, Software Engineer, Data Engineering, SQL, Snowflake, Backend, Kafka, Spark, Big Data, Python, NoSQL, Web, Java, Jenkins, Postgres, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Pandas, Microservices, Ansible, Scala, and Frontend. With 7.03 years of relevant experience, Dhumil is a highly skilled Technical