Lucky Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Rakuten Tech in Europe
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLucky Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 10 years of experience building search and large-scale backend systems across e-commerce and security domains. Currently at Rakuten Tech, he focuses on enhancing search technologies and delivering robust, production-grade search solutions, drawing on earlier hands-on roles with Lucene/Solr at JCPenney and search/engineering work at Walmart Global Tech. He has moved between individual contributor and technical lead roles, evidencing both deep implementation skills (including C++ early in his career) and the ability to guide cross-functional teams. Comfortable in high-throughput, enterprise environments, Lucky blends practical engineering with a steady focus on performance and scalability. A BIT Mesra graduate, he pairs strong academic fundamentals with a decade of real-world experience tuning search and backend systems across global companies.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra10, cbse, 10, cbse at Kiddy's Corner School Gwalior
English, Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
lucene10
todoist10
spellchecker10
symspell10
fuzzy-matching10
million10
solr10
levenshtein-distance10
edit-distance10
normalization10
symmetric10
query-parser10
hunspell10
phonetics10
spelling10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MighTguY/customized-symspell
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Java port of SymSpell: 1 million times faster through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm
Contributions:31 releases, 100 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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MighTguY/Solr-Cloud-Manager
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
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