Alok Sharma

• Worked across multiple teams and domains, including Location Service, Vendor Discovery Service, and Subscription Service, contributing to key platform functionalities.
• Designed and implemented scalable product features, enhancing system reliability and performance.
• Led the development of complex backend solutions, authored RFCs, and facilitated discussions with product teams and cross-functional teams to align on technical decisions.
• Optimized infrastructure costs, reducing expenses by ~$3.5K/month by identifying and eliminating unnecessary logs across all services in the tribe.
• Spearheaded the migration of the Vendor Discovery Service from HTTP to Federated GraphQL, improving efficiency and data retrieval performance.

• Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
• Mentored junior developers, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity.

Summon Platform

• Designed, built, and maintained APIs, features, services, and systems across multiple engineering teams.
• Debugged production issues across multiple services and environments, improving system stability.
• Took on team responsibilities, including writing unit-tested code, completing dozens of Jira issues, conducting multiple interviews, and managing several Git repositories.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive logging system to track transactions by ID across multiple microservices, integrating OpenTracing spans (Jaeger) with standard logs (Go, Python).
• Developed a distributed timeout system for hardware states, ensuring functionality across different Kubernetes replicas (Golang).

Multi-Cloud Data Management Platform (MCDMP)

• A platform that provides a unified framework to connect with private, public, and traditional data stores, a unified asset database that allows Google-like search capabilities, and a unified policy and security.
• Developed reusable code and libraries to enhance maintainability and future scalability.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure high-quality, efficient, and well-structured code across the team.

Producer Library for Metering & Auditing

• Designed and developed a producer library to enable applications to publish metering and auditing events to AWS.

Data Lake – Catalog API Server

• Contributed to the Data Lake team, developing REST APIs for the Catalog API server, which stores metadata of transformed data.
• Built APIs to track data movement across different S3 buckets (Staging → Raw → Refined), ensuring seamless data processing and transformation.

InSync Cloud

• Contributed to the development of InSync Cloud, a fully automated, enterprise-class SaaS endpoint protection solution hosted on AWS.
• Built and optimized scalable, on-demand storage solutions to support an unlimited number of users and data.
• Assisted in designing and maintaining core backend services, ensuring seamless provisioning and minimal maintenance.