Shikhar Goel

Drives architectural vision and technical strategy for platform-wide microservices, owning end-to-end design across multiple engineering teams. Sets platform-wide standards for service design, scalability, security, and observability, and mentors senior and staff engineers.

Spearheaded architectural decisions for platform-wide microservices, establishing design patterns and coding standards adopted across 4+ engineering teams. Reduced API response latency by 35% through profiling, query optimization, and caching with Redis and Elasticsearch, and resolved 50+ production incidents reducing MTTR by 40%.

Architected and deployed 10+ scalable microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes, enhancing system throughput by 25%. Mentored a team of 5 junior engineers, increasing team velocity by 20% within 6 months, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time from 45 to under 15 minutes.

Took end-to-end ownership of the Communication module within Tekion's CRM platform, re-architecting message delivery pipelines and achieving 40% improvement in reliability. Designed and implemented Kafka-based asynchronous messaging solutions handling 100K+ messages/day and integrated Elasticsearch to improve search query performance by 35%.

Enhanced S3 Provider microservice framework, implementing encryption-at-rest and optimized multipart upload, improving file exchange security and transfer speed by 30%. Developed automated backup and restore modules for Elasticsearch clusters, reducing RTO from 4 hours to under 1 hour, and automated deployment workflows using Ansible and Helm charts.

Led the On-Premise team for DMP 3.5.0p release, implementing Kubernetes-based orchestration solutions that supported 3x increase in concurrent workloads. Deployed and optimized Rook-Ceph storage clusters across 5+ environments and spearheaded MinIO Proof-of-Concept, reducing storage infrastructure costs by 40%.

Automated OpenShift cluster deployments using Ansible playbooks and Helm charts, reducing provisioning time from 8 hours to under 2 hours. Developed a one-click installer for FICO's Decision Management Platform (DMP), cutting end-to-end deployment time by 70%.

Grade: 9.0 CGPA

Activities and societies: Key Projects: Distributed Systems Simulation, Microservices Architecture Design

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, graduated with 9.0 CGPA.