About

Pankaj Sharma is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer at talabat | Delivery Hero. With over 10 years of experience in software development, he has a proven track record of architecting and developing systems that are easy to maintain and scale. Pankaj is an expert in building service-oriented platforms with well-carved out modules/boundaries using principles of Domain Driven Design. He has led, managed, and mentored teams of various sizes that delivered quality software while adhering to best practices like clean code and behavior-driven development. Pankaj has experience working on both brownfield and greenfield projects. He has helped build a platform that served up to 200K concurrent users for one of his past employers. He is skilled in software architectures such as Clean architecture and Hexagonal Architecture, and has experience with paradigms such as Functional Programming & Object-Oriented Programming. He is proficient in languages like Kotlin, Java, Golang, and C#. He also has experience working with databases such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, container platforms like Docker, container orchestrators like Kubernetes, and cloud providers like AWS. Pankaj has expertise in messaging technologies like RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka, and is well-versed in agile practices such as TDD, BDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, and CI/CD. Apart from his technical skills, Pankaj possesses excellent soft skills like leadership and mentoring. He has worked with companies like hellofresh and alef education in the past, where he held senior positions such as Senior Backend Developer and Technical Architect, respectively. In his role as a Technical Architect at alef education, he led and mentored a team of eight developers and was responsible for process improvement and helping the product team. Pankaj holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Science from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engg & Tech. He is well-versed in a wide range of technologies, including AWS, Backend, Ansible, CI/CD, test, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Kafka, Microservices, Postgres, infra, Golang, Java, and Kotlin. With 11.68 years of relevant experience, Pankaj is a highly skilled and sought-after software professional.