About

Sugam Agarwal is an experienced engineering professional with a B.E. from Delhi College of Engineering and over 12 years of experience in Internet Technologies. He has an exceptional track record of developing scalable applications, solving business problems, leading teams, and managing high traffic applications. Currently, he is employed as an Engineering Manager at Nykaa.com, where he is responsible for SDLC, sprint planning, team management, hiring talent, product ideation, code reviews, production release, automations, and innovations. Sugam specializes in web applications, Agile methodology, Scrum, REST, performance optimizations, solution designing, internet technologies, system architecture, and application scalability. He has a wide range of skills, including Django, Python, Linux, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Memcache, Celery, RabbitMQ, Solr, Jira, Git, GCP, Nginx, and uWsgi. At Nykaa, Sugam is responsible for catalogue indexing pipelines, search platform, discovery backend, search, product listing, recommendation, and product detail APIs. In the past, he has worked as a Deputy General Manager (Engineering) at HT Media Ltd, where he was involved in new product development, Scrum planning, feature planning, deployments, code reviews, optimizations, and performance tunings. Additionally, he has worked as a Software Engineer (Rockstand Digital) at Handygo Technologies, where he was a member of the backend team responsible for building restful APIs on the Python-Django framework for the Rockstand mobile application for digital content (eBooks and eMagazines). Sugam's educational background includes a B.E. in Electronics & Communication from Delhi College of Engineering, as well as AISSCE (CBS) from Delhi Public School - Mathura Road and AISSE (CBSE) from Krishna Public School, Kashipur, Uttarakhand. Overall, Sugam has relevant experience of 12.37 years and a strong tech stack that includes senior software engineer, search, MemCache, backend, Python, Django, Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, GCP, web, and software engineer.