About

Shikhar Srivastava is an experienced and innovative problem solver with over 9 years of experience in developing robust mission-critical applications for high-volume business operations. He is an enthusiastic team player/lead, fast thinker, and willing to take on new challenges anytime with an ever-curious mindset. Shikhar has a strong foundation in system design and architecture, and he is highly interested in challenging profiles and complex business problems. Currently, Shikhar is working as a Staff Software Engineer at Agoda, where he is part of the B2B Loyalty Platform team. His key responsibilities include designing Loyalty Platforms for serving enterprises and their end customers. Shikhar's day-to-day tasks involve developing full-stack applications/services in Java/Scala that work in a self-hosted k8s environment. As a Staff Software Engineer, he also leads the architecture and design of software components and supports these applications in their lifecycle while managing a team of around 12 highly talented software engineers. Shikhar has also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at Here and Publicis Sapient. At Here, he worked as part of the Location Services Platform BYOD team where his key responsibilities included designing Location Services for serving Enterprise users. At Publicis Sapient, he worked with a top Wealth and Asset Management Firm, solving critical business problems in the financial services domain. He handled a complex distributed architecture comprising over 80+ microservices based service mesh to provide a real-time view of holdings and cash transactions for portfolio managers to carry out their trades for the day and evaluate their portfolios. Shikhar has a Master of Technology - MTech in Data Science and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and an MBA - Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Project Management from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra. He also has a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra. Shikhar completed his Senior Secondary and Secondary Education in Science from UCSKM Public School. Shikhar's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Java, SQL, Frontend, GCP, Data Engineering, Scala, Spring, Integration, Mobile, Web, Big Data, dotNET, ML, iOS, Salesforce, Data Scientist, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Pytorch. He has 5.70 years of relevant experience.