Aarav Sharma
# summary
Backend engineer with 10+ years building distributed systems at scale. Led platform teams shipping services handling 12B+ requests/day with 99.99% availability. Deep expertise in storage, observability, and performance engineering.
# experience
- Tech lead for a multi-region storage service handling 4.8M ops/sec at p99 latency under 30ms.
- Drove migration to Rust on the hot path, cutting CPU cost by 38% and saving $11M annually.
- Designed and shipped a cell-based architecture eliminating regional blast radius for tier-1 traffic.
- Mentor 6 engineers; chair the org-wide architecture review board across 14 teams.
- Author of an internal RFC adopted across 9 services as the cross-region replication standard.
- Built the real-time metrics ingestion pipeline now processing 2.1 trillion data points/day.
- Owned the on-call rotation and reduced sev-1 incident frequency by 64% across two years.
- Led migration from Kafka to a custom log-structured stream, cutting infra cost by $4.3M/year.
- Hired and onboarded 9 engineers across two teams.
- Built core services for the Connect platform powering payouts for 500K+ businesses.
- Reduced API p99 latency by 47% through targeted database and caching improvements.
- Open-sourced an internal Go library now used by 30+ external companies.
Software Engineer
Senior backend engineer at a top tech company — distributed systems, performance, and platform leadership.