About

Himanshu Panwar is a highly skilled software engineer with over 14 years of experience in building distributed and highly available systems. Currently working as a Senior Engineer at Sharechat, he is responsible for scaling and improving systems in the social media domain. Himanshu is experienced in working with Python, Django, Golang, Java, PostgresSQL, RabbitMQ, PubSub, SQL, NoSQL, BigTable, ScyllaDB, Redis, Microservices, GCP, and Kubernetes. He is skilled in building highly scalable, distributed systems that can handle up to 200M MAUs and 50k req/s while reducing operating costs. Himanshu has previously worked as an AI Engineer 3 at IQVIA, where he was responsible for developing and designing key features into highly available distributed RESTful services and microservices. He has also worked on high-level design, automated tests, code reviews, and DevOps approaches. Himanshu has led the initiative for containerizing applications to Docker, which reduced time to delivery by 80% and eased the process of software delivery and building custom components based on requirements with the microservice architecture. As part of infrastructure migration, he migrated the complete application infrastructure to Kubernetes with Gitlab CI/CD, resulting in lowering the infrastructure cost. Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree from SRM University. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in Microservices, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, SQL, infra, Redis, GCP, NoSQL, AI, Python, Cassandra, Docker, CI/CD, Django, DevOps, Web, Golang, Java, Postgres, Senior Software Engineer, Flask, and Integration. Himanshu is an expert in designing and improving services that can scale to millions of users while reducing operating costs. He is passionate about building highly scalable, distributed systems and is always looking for new and innovative ways to improve system performance. Himanshu is an avid blogger and has shared his expertise on Medium. He also actively contributes to open-source projects on Github.