About

Pulkit Agrawal is an experienced backend engineer with 6 years of hands-on knowledge in designing and developing projects. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at PhonePe, a digital payments platform in India with over 400M+ users. Pulkit has designed and developed microservices that serve a huge user base of PhonePe seamlessly. He has majorly worked on designing and developing authentication and notification microservices. Pulkit has also developed the PPEC Cloud API Architecture, which includes APIs, RBAC, CLIs, and SDKs for provisioning PPEC cloud resources for distributed data centers. In his previous role as a Software Engineer at Rapido, Pulkit worked on coupon generation and notification microservices, which were handling 1M+ rides per day. He was involved in the design discussions and development of various production use cases. Pulkit migrated the whole infrastructure from traditional virtual machines to Docker/Kubernetes, which reduced the cost of infra by 40% and also provided high availability and load tolerance. He successfully integrated logging, monitoring, and alerting stack, which added more visibility in the production environment and helped to reduce the production issues and debuggability time. Pulkit has also worked as a Software Engineer at Tricon Infotech, where he developed sentiment analysis of Twitter tweets and news articles using GCP NLP API and Neo4j. He created many workflows and data pipelines using Apache Airflow. Pulkit developed a matching-engine pipeline, which tries to find the best match of Ringgold ID from bulk data using fuzzy logic. The engine was able to identify Ringgold ID with 90% accuracy. He also developed a counter report analytics pipeline, which generates most popular/most denial books based on live events streaming and shows the recommendation of books for institutes. Pulkit has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from UPTU. He has expertise in microservices, Apache Airflow, backend, AWS, Flask, infra, RabbitMQ, Neo4j, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, GCP, Spark, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring, Redis, Kafka, CI/CD, Postgres, Cassandra, integration, recommendation system, NodeJS, Javascript, Python, NLP, ML, web, and Spring Boot. Pulkit has relevant experience of 6.86 years.