Summary
Mayank Sharma is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and end-to-end applications, currently working on shopping.google.com after prior work on food.google.com. A Certified Java 8 Professional, he has strong expertise in cloud services and big data, including hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Kafka, HDFS and Elasticsearch to scale high-throughput ingestion pipelines. His background spans research at Texas A&M and production roles at Oracle and Palo Alto Networks, where he delivered IoT server features and optimized distributed log processing. Based in Zurich, he blends academic rigour from an MS in Computer Science with practical, production-first engineering and a simple personal ethos—Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat.—that underscores relentless focus on shipping reliable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
B.Tech., Electronics Engineering, B.Tech., Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Intermediate, PCM, Intermediate, PCM at Indian Public Sr. Sec. School , Jaipur
English, Hindi