Arjun Mehta
Senior Software Engineer
- [email protected]
- +1 555 0100
- Bengaluru, India
- linkedin.com/in/arjunmehta
Summary
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building high-traffic backend services in Go and Java. Led the migration of a monolith to microservices handling 40 million requests a day, cut infrastructure costs by 30% and mentor a team of four engineers. Comfortable owning features from design to production.
Experience
Senior Software EngineerMar 2022 – Present
Flipkart
- Led migration of the order service from a monolith to 9 Go microservices, serving 40M requests a day at 99.98% uptime
- Reduced p95 API latency from 820 ms to 190 ms by redesigning caching with Redis
- Cut AWS spend by 30% ($410K a year) through right-sizing and spot instances
- Mentored 4 engineers; 2 promoted within 18 months
Software EngineerJul 2019 – Feb 2022
Freshworks
- Built a webhook delivery system in Java processing 5M events a day with exactly-once guarantees
- Introduced contract tests that reduced production incidents by 45%
- Automated deployments with GitHub Actions, raising release frequency from weekly to daily
Education
B.Tech Computer Science2015 – 2019
NIT Trichy
Skills
- Go
- Java
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- System design
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Languages
- English (fluent)
- Hindi (native)