About

Sachin Aggarwal is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working at Avalara, where he is responsible for automating tax changes across all US states that are published as documents. He has successfully processed around 39k document changes having different structures and content, including a combination of text, unbordered tables, and images. Sachin has also worked on developing a data service platform and a cluster manager responsible for scheduling and monitoring Spark jobs on the EMR cluster. Sachin has extensive experience in Scala-based development and automation, Akka Framework, CICD, Test Driven Development, Spark, and AWS. He has also worked in the past as a Google Summer of Code Student and early age startups where he worked on diverse technologies, including Android Development, Node.js, Angular, Meteor.js, MongoDB, and Python. In his previous role at Avalara as a Software Engineer 2 (R&D), Sachin was responsible for owning the monthly run of their product data pipelines, which generated around 3.35 billion product records. He also worked on automating the detection of tax changes in all US states which are published as documents, built their feedback workflow end to end, and migrated various services and product data pipelines to Avalara as part of Indix acquisition. Before joining Avalara, Sachin worked at Indix as a Software Developer where he worked on their data service platform, a very general cluster manager which lets you run workloads on the cloud with currently supporting Spark jobs that can be run on the EMR cluster (AWS). The platform is responsible for monitoring the data job and its lifecycle which includes both cluster and job lifecycle. Sachin holds an Engineer’s Degree in Information Technology from Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology. He is highly skilled in various technologies, including Software Engineering, Javascript, AWS, Spark, Scala, test, MongoDB, Kubernetes, SQL, Postgres, ui, Android, CI/CD, Docker, Spring Boot, Spring, Frontend, and Backend. Sachin is a self-motivated, detail-oriented, and results-driven individual who is always looking for new domains that can be taken for automation and their implementation.