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Lakshya Garg

Staff Software Engineer

Greater Bengaluru Area

10+ years of work experience

Uber
Nov 202511 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Confluent
Nov 20223 yrsOct 2025

Bengaluru

In my role at Confluent, I spearheaded the billing team, focusing on consumption tracking and payment enablement. I was responsible for high-level and low-level design, OKR planning, and mentoring and leading a team of over 15+ engineers. My efforts in re-architecting systems significantly improved deal velocity, revenue forecasting, customer retention, developer productivity and faster feature onboarding. My systems were handling the traffic of 30K TPS, and other systems helped increases approximately 1.5M quarterly revenue for the company.
Flipkart
Jan 202211 mosNov 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of video commerce team, enabling video funnel on flipkart. Technologies used: Java, Dropwizard, mongodb, GCS, dataflow, pub-sub
Flipkart
Nov 20192 yrs 2 mosDec 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

Part of retention and engagement team. Building platform for increasing daily footprints of users at Flipkart. As part of the team, I am currently building game engine, which enables game studios to build the games with the scale of flipkart. As the initial v0 release for the games platform, we launched multiple single player casual games on the core backend developed within flipkart and for v1 launch, we released simultaneous multi player games with real time score update capabilities. Currently clocking 5M+ DAU built services with QPS ranging from 3K to 30K. technologies used: JAVA, DROPWIZARD, MONGODB, HBASE, KAFKA, REDIS etc. Day to Day activities include development, HLD and LLD design, code reviews, design reviews, production stability, mentoring and onboarding team members.
Paytm
Apr 20197 mosOct 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Currently part of paytm-money developing transaction system for stock trading platform. Technologies in use: Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, AWS SQS.
Paytm
May 201811 mosMar 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Part of the paytm-mall team to develop crossborder payouts project. Included writing web apis, generating reports and automated paying out to merchants. Technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, MySql, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernets.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jun 20162 yrsMay 2018

Bengaluru Area, India

I am working as Datapath Engineer for HPE's software defined storage products. I have experience in working on different products under HPE's strong SDCG team responsible for delivering valuable products. ►BLOCK storage on SimpliVity: (Role: Data Path Engineer) * API development for providing block level functionality to ISCSI protocol team over SImpliVIty architecture. * Working in agile development cycle and responsible for user story deliveries. ►Compression feature for StoreVirtual VSA (Role: Data Path Engineer) * Researched state-of-the-art virtual storage appliance VSA as a part of compression enabling team for VSA also about Raptor module to integrate it with VSA for better compression results. * Worked as Data Path engineer to integrate raptor inside VSA and handled raptor’s interactions with data path. * Designed and implemented auto test for compression. ►Optimal Resource Utilization in Hyper Converged Environment (Role: Strategist and developer) * Created strategies and road-map for development cycle of the product. * Researched several data analysis techniques and tools. * Implemented the techniques in python for proof of concepts. ►Private Cloud Service Automation (HPE internal) (Role: Python developer for storage automation provisioning) * Created strategies and roadmap for development cycle of the product. * Implemented the strategies in Python and C for production, leading fully automated storage provisioning. * Interacted with Server automation team to integrate the solution for HPE’s internal Private Cloud Service Automation.

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Education

National institute of technology Calicut

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

National institute of technology Calicut

20124 yrs2016

Shri Maheshwari senior secondary school

20083 yrs2011

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Headline

Staff Software Engineer

About

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in usage-based billing, contract estimator, e-commerce, gaming, fintech and virtualization domain with hands on into designing, development and integration. Exposure to sprint planning and scrum process. Fluent with Java, Golang, C++ and also have enough working experience with databases ie MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, HBase etc. Hands on experience in Dropwizard, Uber-go/fx, Spring boot frameworks with Jmeter, Apache Benchmark(AB), Mockito, Junit, PowerMockito, Tomcat. Experience with tools like: Postman, Swagger, Jenkins, Semaphore, Kafka, Docker, kubernetes and ansible Exposure in working with micro-service as well as monolithic architectures.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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codex

gemini

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Uber, Nov 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Software Engineer 2 (Tech Lead - IC) at Confluent, Nov 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, In my role at Confluent, I spearheaded the billing team, focusing on consumption tracking and payment enablement. I was responsible for high-level and low-level design, OKR planning, and mentoring and leading a team of over 15+ engineers. My efforts in re-architecting systems significantly improved deal velocity, revenue forecasting, customer retention, developer productivity and faster feature onboarding. My systems were handling the traffic of 30K TPS, and other systems helped increases approximately 1.5M quarterly revenue for the company.

Software Engineer 3 at Flipkart, Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Part of video commerce team, enabling video funnel on flipkart. Technologies used: Java, Dropwizard, mongodb, GCS, dataflow, pub-sub

Software Engineer 2 at Flipkart, Nov 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of retention and engagement team. Building platform for increasing daily footprints of users at Flipkart. As part of the team, I am currently building game engine, which enables game studios to build the games with the scale of flipkart. As the initial v0 release for the games platform, we launched multiple single player casual games on the core backend developed within flipkart and for v1 launch, we released simultaneous multi player games with real time score update capabilities. Currently clocking 5M+ DAU built services with QPS ranging from 3K to 30K. technologies used: JAVA, DROPWIZARD, MONGODB, HBASE, KAFKA, REDIS etc. Day to Day activities include development, HLD and LLD design, code reviews, design reviews, production stability, mentoring and onboarding team members.

Senior Software Engineer at Paytm, Apr 2019 - Oct 2019 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Currently part of paytm-money developing transaction system for stock trading platform. Technologies in use: Java, SpringBoot, MySQL, AWS SQS.

Software Engineer at Paytm, May 2018 - Mar 2019 · 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of the paytm-mall team to develop crossborder payouts project. Included writing web apis, generating reports and automated paying out to merchants. Technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, MySql, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernets.

Senior System Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jun 2016 - May 2018 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, I am working as Datapath Engineer for HPE's software defined storage products. I have experience in working on different products under HPE's strong SDCG team responsible for delivering valuable products. ►BLOCK storage on SimpliVity: (Role: Data Path Engineer) * API development for providing block level functionality to ISCSI protocol team over SImpliVIty architecture. * Working in agile development cycle and responsible for user story deliveries. ►Compression feature for StoreVirtual VSA (Role: Data Path Engineer) * Researched state-of-the-art virtual storage appliance VSA as a part of compression enabling team for VSA also about Raptor module to integrate it with VSA for better compression results. * Worked as Data Path engineer to integrate raptor inside VSA and handled raptor’s interactions with data path. * Designed and implemented auto test for compression. ►Optimal Resource Utilization in Hyper Converged Environment (Role: Strategist and developer) * Created strategies and road-map for development cycle of the product. * Researched several data analysis techniques and tools. * Implemented the techniques in python for proof of concepts. ►Private Cloud Service Automation (HPE internal) (Role: Python developer for storage automation provisioning) * Created strategies and roadmap for development cycle of the product. * Implemented the strategies in Python and C for production, leading fully automated storage provisioning. * Interacted with Server automation team to integrate the solution for HPE’s internal Private Cloud Service Automation.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, National institute of technology Calicut

Shri Maheshwari senior secondary school