About

Tushar Bihany is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in delivering highly scalable systems with a distributed microservices model. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon, where he is responsible for solving problems at scale with the help of technology. Tushar has a proven track record of delivering on highly scalable systems with distributed microservices model. He possesses extensive knowledge of Java, Dropwizard, Mongo DB, MySQL, CouchBase, Cascading(Java) MR Jobs, and other relevant technologies. Prior to joining Amazon, Tushar worked as a Software Engineer at Udaan and a Software Development Engineer 2 at Flipkart. At Flipkart, he was responsible for non-functional requirements (NFR) benchmarking/optimizations for Search Federator and Conversational Search, Big Billion Days 2018. He scaled Search Federator to 100K QPS with P99 latency of 550 ms with load average of around 0.9 and Conversational Search to 65K QPS with P99 latency of 55 ms. He introduced request cache in Conversational Search, leading to a 5X drop in P99 latencies and a 1.5X increase in throughput per server. Tushar has also built Conversational Search 2.0 from scratch, where he owned the HLD and the LLD of the entire pipeline. He achieved highly scalable unbounded candidate generation of inorganic search contents with 4X coverage. He has extensive knowledge of Java, Grafana, Hystrix (Netflix), CouchBase, Locust, Guava Cache, Dropwizard, MongoDB, and other relevant technologies. Tushar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from BITS Pilani. He is a passionate problem solver, and his experience in delivering highly scalable systems with distributed microservices model makes him a valuable asset to any organization.