About

Sameer Agrawal is a highly experienced software engineer with over 10 years of experience building teams and microservices-based distributed backend systems. He is currently working as a Principal Architect at Pixis, where he is responsible for leading an array of simulations along with a team of 3 engineers. Sameer has gained technical experience in various areas such as training juniors, mentoring, solidifying backend architecture, caching, and creating new variants of the same simulation with configuration from admin mode. Prior to his current role, Sameer worked at KNOLSKAPE as the Director of Engineering, Platform. As part of this role, he was responsible for taking the new platform designed in microservice architecture to the next level and enabling the customer success team to roll out all solutions from this platform. He gained technical experience in different microservices patterns such as API gateway, async communication between microservices using RabbitMQ, Python, analytics pipeline using Amazon Kinesis Streams, S3, and Apache Airflow. He also formalized a multi-cloud approach to deploy all products and platforms with a small DevOps team of 2 engineers, focusing on optimizing cost and making use of automation as much as possible. Sameer's technical skills include proficiency in languages such as Python, NodeJs, Javascript, and PHP, and frameworks such as Django, Laravel, Express, and Koa. He has experience working with databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Mongo, and messaging systems such as Redis, RabbitMQ, and Kafa. He is also proficient in DevOps tools such as AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Automation, and Monitoring. Sameer has experience in architecture design, including microservices, API design, database schema design, ETL pipeline, and documentation. Sameer holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Software Engineer with relevant experience of 11.95 years. Sameer is a skilled team leader, mentor, and trainer, with a track record of building successful teams and delivering high-quality software solutions.