Ekam Walia
Senior Software Engineer at Postman
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolEkam Walia is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven microservices and data pipelines using Java, Go, and Python on Kubernetes in Azure. At Citrix he led teams that delivered high-impact features for large customers, including a CDC Kafka pipeline processing ~25K events/min per customer and a data-lineage tool spanning 50+ Spark jobs and multiple stores. He’s driven significant cost and performance wins—eliminating ~$500K/year and cutting critical query time by ~40%—while owning platform reliability improvements like multi-cluster Istio and Layer 7 load balancing to achieve 99.95% uptime. Comfortable across backend, infrastructure, and data engineering domains, he also has hands-on experience as a technical lead and scrum lead, steering cross-functional work with product and architecture stakeholders. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a pragmatic, results-focused approach and a knack for turning operational pain points into scalable, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering (Minor in Big Data), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering (Minor in Big Data) at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi
Github Skills (83)
javascript9
markdown9
octave9
euler9
herokuapp9
open-source9
pentesting9
dsa-algorithm8
github-api8
credits8
scheduler8
golang8
python8
racket8
coder8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ekamwalia/firebase-money-tracker
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ekamwalia/Competitve-Coding
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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