Abhishek Sharma

Abhishek Sharma has over 10 years of professional experience in software engineering and data management. Abhishek began their career in 2010 as a Senior Software Engineer at DXC Technology, where they wrote ANTLR based parsers for legacy programming languages and morphed Abstract Syntax Trees as per object-oriented programming languages. Abhishek also developed Parser Grammars for COBOL, JCL, RPG, CICS, FORTRAN, BASIC, JAVA, and SQL. In 2012, Abhishek became a Cofounder of MyDiscountHero, a loyalty reward services and daily deals site. Later that year, they joined IHS Markit as an Associate and was promoted to Assistant Vice President in 2016. During their time at IHS Markit, they worked on Markit Parsing projects and was involved with NLP and Parsing of bonds, new issue bonds, and loans. In 2014, Abhishek joined S&P Capital IQ as a Lead Developer and was promoted to Senior Lead Developer. In this role, they were a core team member of Global Market Intelligence Model Development and worked on STARS (Stock Appreciation Ranking System) model, Flash model, and sentiment analysis of SEC filings. In 2018, Abhishek became Founder & Coder of SparseCode and a Data Engineer at Paytm Labs. At Paytm Labs, they developed, deployed, and maintained Apache Flink based real-time streaming pipelines and a Spark based job for moving data from Amazon S3 to Google Big Query. Abhishek also deployed and maintained a Docker-based Airflow workflow manager. In 2019, Abhishek joined TradeRev as a Senior Data Engineer, where they architected Kafka and Kubernetes based real-time scalable platforms and developed Kafka Stream and Elastic search based real-time search solutions and Debezium based real-time change data capture platforms. In 2020, Abhishek joined RBC as a Senior Kubernetes Engineer, where they built and maintained Kubernetes (AKS cluster) with several platform components, custom Kubernetes CRD development based on the controller pattern, and designed stateful applications on the Kubernetes platform. Abhishek also implemented Istio service mesh in the platform. In 2022, Abhishek became a Staff Platform Engineer at SpotHero.

Abhishek Sharma began their educational journey in 2003 by obtaining a B.SC (H) in Chemistry from Delhi University. Afterward, they pursued a Master of Computer Applications - MCA from SRMS Institutions from 2006 to 2009. In addition to their formal education, Abhishek Sharma has obtained several certifications, including CFA Level 1 from the CFA Institute in December 2015, Oracle Java Enterprise Edition 5 Web Services Developer from Oracle in August 2013, Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 5 Business Component Developer from Oracle in April 2011, Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, EE 5 Certification Progress from Oracle in April 2010, Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, SE 5.0 from Oracle in December 2009, Certified Kubernetes Administrator from the CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] in August 2020, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from the CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] in January 2020, Microsoft Certified Microsoft Azure Administrator from Microsoft in July 2020, and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals from Microsoft.