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Abhishek Tiwari

@abhishektiwari11

Senior backend and distributed-systems engineer delivering reliable, event-driven platforms with measurable business impact.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team building large-scale, event-driven backend and distributed systems where I can own reliability, observability, and performance, while delivering data/ETL pipelines that drive real business decisions and strong cross-functional collaboration.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems, event-driven platforms, and high-throughput backend services across e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and enterprise collaboration. I’m known for improving reliability, slashing latency, and reducing operational cost—while tying engineering work to measurable business outcomes.

At Microsoft, I owned backend architecture for the Microsoft Teams Events Scheduling platform (Webinar & Town Hall), serving millions of organizers and attendees globally. I improved platform reliability from 95% to 99.8% and led the Exchange-to-Notify migration with zero disruption to live, business-critical traffic.

At Jio Platforms (Tira), I architected an event-driven inventory reservation platform and built Insightful Pulse, a near real-time sales and discount analytics platform. I also scaled Airflow ETL from a single use case into an org-wide platform at MoEngage, driving shared adoption across data workflows.

I thrive on cross-team alignment and ownership—whether it’s observability and remediation, system design reviews, or mentoring engineers on distributed systems, backend development, and ETL best practices. I aim to bring platform-first engineering discipline, reliability engineering, and cloud-native execution (Azure/AWS) to every team I join.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Microsoft India R&D

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Owned backend architecture for Microsoft Teams Events Scheduling (Webinar & Town Hall) serving millions globally. Improved reliability from 95% to 99.8% and led Exchange-to-Notify event communications migration; also supported GA launches and cross-team delivery.

.NET C#Azure Reliability Engineering Observability Claude Code

Tech Lead — Backend

Jio Platforms (Tira)

Nov 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Architected a distributed inventory reservation platform as a reusable service using event-driven components across multiple businesses. Led Insightful Pulse near real-time sales/discount analytics, cutting reporting turnaround from hours to near real-time and mentored engineers to scale platform ownership.

Redis PostgreSQL MongoDB Kafka Streams Apache Spark ETL Real Time Analytics

Senior Software Engineer

Compass

Aug 2020 - May 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Designed and launched a greenfield Video Analytics platform for real-time visibility into buyer behavior and content performance. Introduced Kafka Streams-based processing, reduced analytics dashboard latency from 4–5 seconds to 200–300ms, and expanded Open House with live-stream scheduling and engagement features.

Java Python Apache Spark Amazon Redshift EMR Amazon Athena Kafka Kafka Streams Go Redis PostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer

MoEngage

Jul 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Designed a hosted customer segmentation platform processing engagement data daily with hourly segment refreshes. Built scalable ETL pipelines using Airflow, Spark, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and contributed to decomposing monolithic services into microservices to improve deployment independence and team velocity.

Airflow Apache Spark Kafka Elasticsearch Microservices ETL

Software Engineer

Flipkart

Apr 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Worked on First Mile logistics systems for seller pickup operations and improved Last Mile POS device utilization. Participated in migrating payment services from monolithic architecture to Spring Boot microservices.

Spring Boot Microservices