About

Yagnik Suchak is an experienced Server Engineer with a Master's Degree in Computer Science. He has a demonstrated history of working in the gaming, healthcare IT, education, and consumer electronics industries. Currently, Yagnik is working as a Staff Software Engineer at Apple Inc., where he designs, develops, maintains, and supports highly scalable RESTful Micro-services for multi-tier web applications using rigorous test-driven development methodologies. His micro-services include real-time player matching, chat messaging, and push notifications that support in-game engagement platforms. Yagnik is proficient in various technologies, including Grails, Spring boot, RabbitMQ, Redis, Guava, MongoDB, Java, Hibernate, AWS, MySQL, Spock, Gatling, and Jenkins. Prior to his current role, Yagnik worked as a Server Software Engineer at Skillz Inc., where he designed, developed, maintained, and supported highly scalable RESTful Micro-services for multi-tier web applications using rigorous test-driven development methodologies. His micro-services included real-time player matching, chat messaging, and push notifications that supported in-game engagement platforms. Yagnik was proficient in various technologies, including Grails, Spring boot, RabbitMQ, Redis, Guava, MongoDB, Java, Hibernate, AWS, MySQL, Spock, Gatling, and Jenkins. Yagnik also worked as a Data Engineering Intern at Altice USA, where he created a change data capture (CDC) data pipeline using Write Ahead Logs to transfer MySQL data to HDFS with an average latency of 6 seconds per million records. He designed and implemented a fail-over mechanism for Apache Kafka to make the data pipeline more robust. Yagnik completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and his Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He has expertise in various technologies, including Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Microservices, AWS, test, Redis, RabbitMQ, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Spring, Jenkins, Web, Data Engineering, HDFS, and Kafka. With 9.61 years of relevant experience, Yagnik is a skilled and knowledgeable Server Engineer.