About

Kaivalya Apte is a highly experienced and skilled Staff SDE with over 11 years of experience in crafting software products backed by highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant distributed systems written in Java/Scala built on top of Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, MySql and Postgres. He is currently working as a Staff Software Engineer at Hubspot in the Messaging Product Group, where he is building a messaging infrastructure for sending transactional, conversational, and marketing messages at super high scale. Kaivalya has extensive experience in interviewing Senior Engineers and has helped many individuals achieve their goals by mentoring them. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and expertise and has created a podcast called "The GeekNarrator," where he talks about technology, software engineering, learning, and a lot more other topics. His podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In addition to his work and podcast, Kaivalya is also available to book for career consultations, tech interviews, resume reviews, and general help. He is always eager to help others and share his knowledge and expertise. Kaivalya's past experience includes working as a Software Development Engineer 3 at Twilio IOT SuperSIM, where he worked on high-scale Kafka-based streaming architecture for usage and billing. He also worked as a Software Engineer - Backend at Zalando, where he wrote microservices for Zalando Plus. Kaivalya holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (Medicaps), where he graduated in 2010. He is a skilled Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Kafka, Spark, MySQL, Cassandra, Postgres, infra, Scala, Java, Backend, and Microservices. With 12.70 years of relevant experience, Kaivalya is a highly sought-after professional in the software engineering industry.