Summary
Arpit Adlakha is an engineering manager and staff software engineer with ~8–10 years of experience designing and delivering high‑performance, scalable distributed systems across companies like ThoughtSpot, AWS, Gojek, Quizizz, Groupon and Zscaler. He combines deep systems-level expertise (C/C++, Go, Java) with cloud-native infrastructure skills (Kubernetes, Terraform, Envoy, AWS/GCP services) to architect resilient data pipelines, service meshes, and high-throughput platforms handling millions of requests per minute. At Quizizz he drove organization-wide performance, DR, and analytics initiatives—rebuilding pipelines to process billions of events/day and saving six-figure annual cloud costs—while at AWS he fixed and re-architected a 40M rps counting system for accuracy and availability. A pragmatic technical leader, he hires and mentors senior engineers, surfaces technical debt, and shifts org direction toward impactful work. Quick to learn and hands-on, he blends backend, data and DevOps fluency to ship production-grade applied AI and GenAI solutions at scale.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.5, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.5 at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
95% in Class 12th, 95% in Class 12th at Dyal Singh Public School
English, Hindi, Punjabi