Shivam Makkar
Java Backend Software Engineer at Revolut
Gdansk Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolShivam Makkar is a seasoned Java backend engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable services for video, voice, and financial products across Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Revolut, and Samsung. He specializes in microservices, streaming and data pipelines, and operational automation using technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Trino and Elasticsearch to deliver production-ready systems. At Revolut he focuses on automating regulatory and fincrime processes to accelerate market expansion, and previously enabled Alexa NLU capabilities and living-room video playback features at Amazon. An open-source enthusiast since 2012, Shivam has contributed to KDE and participated in Google Summer of Code, reflecting a long-standing commitment to community-driven software. Based in Gdańsk, he pairs deep backend expertise with an interest in application research, and—less obviously—brings creative problem-solving from his hobbies as a keyboard player and Tolkien aficionado.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at GGSIPU USITDAV Public School Vikas puri
Hindi
Github Skills (4)
chromeos9
linux8
desktop7
electron7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amourphious/Language-Detection
Nov 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 3 years
amourphious/amourphious_blog
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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