Software Engineer · Bengaluru, India

Rishav
Sharma

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

I build the systems that let hundreds of engineers ship without thinking about databases, cloud migrations, or ops toil. Currently at Gojek — Southeast Asia's leading super-app — designing multi-cloud infrastructure at scale.

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Current role
SDE II
Gojek · Since Oct 2024
Experience
3+
years in prod systems
Primary lang
Go
+ TypeScript · C/C++
Clouds
4
GCP · AWS · AliCloud · Tencent

Impact by numbers

250+
PostgreSQL instances migrated to HA (Patroni + Consul) with 99.99% uptime during cutover
130+
EOL Redis components upgraded and onboarded to Redis Sentinel for zero single-points-of-failure
~80%
Reduction in manual ops toil via Argo Workflows + Terraform + Ansible async pipelines
50+
Product teams unblocked by Kafka event streaming integration in the internal PAAS platform
2K+
Users on the platform whose data infrastructure I help keep running and migrating

Experience

Software Engineer II
Gojek · SDE 2
Oct 2024 — Present
Bengaluru, India
+
Southeast Asia's leading super-app — ride-hailing, food delivery, payments, logistics — serving 170M+ users.
  • Leading cloud migration of stateful infrastructure from GCP/AWS → AliCloud, designing the zero-downtime migration foundation used by 50+ product teams.
  • Architected Kafka event streaming support in the internal PAAS platform, enabling async data pipelines across the engineering org.
  • Adding MySQL resource management to the platform, enabling product developers to fully own MySQL cluster configuration via a self-service interface.
  • Building next-gen multi-cloud PAAS with Tencent + AliCloud support — owned the stateful component management layer from RFC to production.
Software Engineer I
Gojek · SDE 1
Aug 2022 — Oct 2024
Bengaluru, India
+
  • Built a self-service PAAS platform handling Day-1 provisioning and Day-2 lifecycle ops (upgrades, scaling, failover) for PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka.
  • Backend in Golang on Kubernetes, frontend in Next.js; integrated Argo Workflows for async Ansible and Terraform pipelines — cutting ops toil by ~80%.
  • Migrated 250+ PostgreSQL instances to HA using Patroni + Consul; 99.99% uptime during cutover.
  • Upgraded 130+ EOL Redis components to latest OS; onboarded Redis Sentinel for automatic failover.
  • Self-hosted GitLab CI runners on AWS Auto Scaling Groups, reducing CI infrastructure cost by ~35%.
Software Engineer Intern
BharatPe · Fintech
Mar 2022 — Jun 2022
Gurgaon, India
+
  • Implemented service workers on the Postpe consumer app, reducing initial load time by ~40% on slow mobile connections.
  • Built CRM portal dashboards (TypeScript, React, Redux Toolkit) for real-time application usage and user cohort reports.
Software Engineer Intern
PayU · Payments
Jun 2021 — Feb 2022
Pune, India
+
  • Built a merchant storefront and seller dashboard for the SBM PAAS platform (ReactJS, Redux, TypeScript, GraphQL) — onboarding 200+ merchants at launch.

Tech stack

Languages
Go TypeScript JavaScript C/C++ SQL
Infrastructure
Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Argo Workflows Helm
Cloud
GCP AWS AliCloud Tencent Cloud
Databases
PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB MySQL Patroni Consul
Messaging
Apache Kafka Event Streaming
Frontend
React Next.js Redux GraphQL

Projects

AI · Audio
Voicely

Captures grammatically incorrect speech, corrects it using NLP, and synthesizes the fixed audio back in the original speaker's voice. End-to-end audio → NLP → synthesis pipeline.

Runner-up · Amdocs HackFest 2021 · 500+ participants
Platform · Content
Devshots

A platform for software engineers who want to stay current without spending hours reading. Curated 5-minute technical reads with a custom content pipeline and fast responsive UI.

Contact

Let's build
something solid.

Open to Software Engineer, Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering roles — especially at companies building in AI, cloud, or developer tooling.

srishav669@gmail.com
Email
srishav669@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/sharma-rishav
GitHub
github.com/flarsu
Location
Bengaluru, India · Open to remote