About

Shashi Kumar is a highly experienced Software Development Engineer at Flipkart with over 7 years of experience in the information technology industry. He has a demonstrated history of working with distributed applications and making architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns. He is skilled in Computer Science, Java, spring boot, Databases, Apache Spark and has a strong engineering background with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Master's degree focused in Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. At Flipkart, Shashi has worked on a highly available real-time payment platform using distributed and scalable systems like spark, hadoop, vertx, and elasticsearch. He has also designed and implemented the API layer with vertx async functionality on top of the dropwizard framework to enrich order-related information. Shashi is currently working on Java, Dropwizard, Elastic Search, Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Reactive Programming, Python, Kafka Streaming, Hive, Rx Java, Vertx, and neo4j, Django. Prior to Flipkart, Shashi worked as a Software Development Engineer - II at Capillary, where he developed a highly scalable and high-throughput low latency system using the spring boot framework architecture to deliver recommendations. He also co-developed a state-of-the-art multi-tenant recommender system from design and structure to full-fledged serving capabilities. Shashi has also worked as a Software Developer Intern at eBay, where he integrated Elastic-search with Apache Kafka as a message streaming pipeline to replicate documents over two different Elastic-search clusters. Shashi is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Software Engineering, Spark, Java, Elastic Search, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, Hadoop, Search, Neo4j, AWS, CI/CD, ML, Integration, Big Data, test, MySQL, Microservices, Mobile, Apache Hive, Recommendation system, Web, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, and Jenkins. He is a strong technical leader who drives and performs best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and widely used critical programs. Overall, Shashi Kumar is an experienced and skilled Software Development Engineer who has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software with speediness and quality.