About

Palak Agarwal is a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with over 4 years of relevant experience in the industry. She has a strong technical background in algorithms and data structures, as well as knowledge of distributed database management systems, computer networks, and operating systems. Palak has worked with various databases including MongoDB, PSQL/MYSQL, and ElasticSearch. She has also learned technologies such as Java (Core) and Java Advanced (Intermediate) and worked with Flask Framework (Python) and Cake-PHP Framework. Palak is proficient in using tools such as Git, Postman, Kibana, Jenkins, and Agile (Codacy). In her previous role at Grofers, Palak worked as a Software Development Engineer and was responsible for creating prices in the Engineering System that could be used by other systems to push to the end-user on the consumer App. She also developed Excel sheets containing data in a specific format that could be understood by the Pricing Engine. Palak solved revenue loss problems by implementing RM Pricing at ItemID <> SS level and created an Intelligent Dashboard instead of Google Sheet to provide price inputs. She also optimized slow queries and created missing indexes in the migrations. Palak has experience in Kubernetes Deployment of the services and worked on Grafana Visualization/debugging processes. She performed Pytest Framework for testing purposes. Palak also worked as a Software Developer at Delhivery, where she worked on Python Flask server as a backend service of the project. She used Rabbitamq as a celery queue for job scheduling tasks and worked on MongoDB and PSQL as a database. Palak assigned different duties to manage the projects and assigned tasks to both develop and test the codebase. She also optimized the existing algorithms and increased the efficiency of the project at manifestation level. Palak worked with the Infrastructure team of Delhivery for setting up new servers for the projects and set up of Jenkins Job for the deployment of the projects. She performed data analysis using python library functions like numpy and pandas and other critical analysis. Palak worked with the Data Team for Data Quality check and data analysis and worked on the git tool for bitbucket(git) pipeline generation. Palak completed her Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in 2019 and her Senior Secondary education from Ch. Chhabil Dass Public School in 2015. Palak's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Java, MongoDB, MySQL, Elastic Search, Flask, Python, test, Jenkins,