About

Sharad Singh is a Principal Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in software development, working across various domains including Big Data, Hadoop ecosystem, compiler, distributed systems, OS, and REST-based back-end microservices. He is an avid problem solver who enjoys tackling algorithmic problems using multiple approaches. Sharad has a keen interest in learning new algorithms and adopting new technologies, with particular interests in statistics, information retrieval, operating systems, distributed systems, cloud, big data, and web architectures. Sharad actively participates in online coding competitions and submits solutions in C/C++, Java, Python, and other languages. He has profiles on platforms such as Codechef, Hackerrank, Spoj, and Hackerearth. Currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Prophecy, Sharad has previously worked at Infoworks as a Senior Software Engineer, where he worked on data pipelines and ETL using Spark and Hive as execution engines. He is currently working in the Ingestion team at Prophecy, where data ingestion happens from different types of data sources over data lake in Hadoop. Sharad has also worked at Flipkart as an SDE, where he built microservices that manage the state of sellers and communication with sellers. He was part of a team that implemented Seller as an Organization and built a complete microservice that controls the permission of every entity in seller. Currently, he is working on the development of CRM, where they are replacing the third-party CRM of Flipkart agents. Sharad holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from IIIT, where he completed his studies in 2012. He also holds a Senior Secondary degree in Mathematics from Kendriya Vidyalaya, where he completed his studies in 2005. Sharad's technical skills include software engineering, information retrieval, Hadoop, microservices, .NET, backend, web, Spark, Python, Java, ETL, C, and Apache Hive. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Sharad is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for problem-solving and learning.