Shakti Garg
Staff Software Engineer at Slintel, a 6sense company
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolShakti Garg is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering distributed data platforms and high-throughput processing systems across batch and streaming domains. He has progressed from full-stack and Android work to leading and architecting data engineering initiatives at companies like ThoughtWorks, Expedia Group, and Slintel, often improving legacy pipelines from hours to minutes and standardizing platform practices. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs hands-on optimization (Tez/MR→Spark migrations, performance testing frameworks) with platform design for API-first, event-driven, domain-oriented data products. He also drives engineering process, mentoring, and community-building—co-founding a data conference and integrating open-source tools like DataHub and Great Expectations into production platforms. Based in Delhi, he focuses on green, maintainable distributed systems and has a pragmatic penchant for simple, detail-oriented solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer science, B.Tech, Computer science at Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET)
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Github Skills (68)
metadata10
data-management10
datahub10
charts10
pipeline10
data-integrity10
eda10
data-profiling10
data-catalog10
metadata-management10
data-governance10
data-quality10
exploratory-data-analysis10
linkedin10
data-validation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shakti-garg/prometheus_kafka_metrics
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Prometheus metrics mapper for confluent-kafka-python applications
Contributions:1 review, 40 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 7 months
pythonkafka-pythonpython-applicationsprometheus-metricsmapper
shakti-garg/opentracing-python-kafka-client
May 2020 - Apr 2022
OpenTracing Instrumentation for Confluent-Kafka-Python library
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
python-libraryinstrumentationpythonkafka-pythontracing
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