About

Himanshu Virmani is an accomplished software engineer and leader with over 10 years of experience in development, architecture, research, and leadership. He has a strong background in E-commerce and Location Based Services domains and has worked with India's top start-up, Flipkart, managing a multi-petabyte scale cluster that handled trillions of events per day. Currently, he works with WalmartLabs pharmacy business, enabling data-driven decisions. Himanshu is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Hidtechs Pvt. Ltd., where he conceptualized FM India Radio for Android/iOS, which has more than 2 million Google Play Store downloads. He is a technologist with expertise in Android applications and software architecture and a programmer with hands-on experience in Java, Android, HTML, and Ruby. He is also an engaging speaker with experience delivering face-to-face and online training and an open-source contributor to various libraries on Github. Himanshu is a sportsperson who has represented his college and company in Ping Pong, Volleyball, and Cricket tournaments. He is also a two-time Half Marathon runner, with a best time of 2 hours 1 minute. Himanshu started his career as a Software Engineer in 3G UMTS RNC development for a year and then moved to Android Applications development. He has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Aricent, where he developed Android Mobile Applications. He also co-founded Hidtechs Pvt. Ltd., where he researched and developed various Mobile Application products that have driven more than a million Google Play store downloads. Himanshu developed various thin backend Webservices in Java and Ruby to support mobile applications. Himanshu has a strong educational background, having completed his XII degree in Non-Medical from AISSCE and his X degree from AISSE. Himanshu's technical skills include Software Engineer, Android, Big Data, infra, Senior Software Engineer, Research Scientist, iOS, Backend, Spark, test, Redis, Ruby, Java, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, and Apache Hive. Overall, Himanshu has 15.12 years of relevant experience, making him a valuable asset to any organization.