About

Mayank Sharma is a Software Engineer 2 at Walmart Global Tech India with a strong background in distributed and low-level systems. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Mayank has a passion for problem-solving and is quick at understanding large and complex code-bases. Currently working in the AdTech domain at Walmart, Mayank has been a part of teams that have seen significant growth and has been responsible for mentoring and the growth of team members. He has full ownership of multiple microservices deployed on Kubernetes using Walmart's Cloud Native Platform (WCNP) with e2e telemetry setup using Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana, and Dynatrace. Additionally, he is currently working on the Apollo Federation Subgraph Server that supports fetching Ads using either GraphQL queries or REST API calls. Prior to working at Walmart, Mayank was a Summer Intern at GNOME Organization for Google Summer of Code. He ported libgdata from (autotools + make) to (meson + ninja) build system, writing build files to compile and link a shared library consisting of 100+ object files, thereby improving build times by ∼40%. Mayank also developed a new API (GDataDocumentsProperty) for libgdata (C library for Google Drive API) from scratch to support Properties Resource on File objects and augmented copy, move, delete, and make_directory operations in GVfs (earlier disabled) with GDataDocumentsProperty API. Mayank's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur, where he graduated in 2020. He also completed XII from Central Academy Schools in 2016 and Class X from Central Academy Schools in 2014. Mayank's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Microservices, Backend, Javascript, Typescript, Spring Boot, Python, Golang, and C. With 2.70 years of relevant experience, Mayank is a skilled software engineer with a passion for problem-solving and a strong understanding of distributed and low-level systems.