Sushant Sharma

IIT Kharagpur Alumnus, Engineering @ Mayhem Studios

Engineering Leader | Architect & Designer | Programmer & Coder
Phone: +91 99720 28554 Email: s.sushant.sharma@gmail.com Last-updated: 11th June 2022

Profile Summary
IIT KGP Alumnus | 17+ years of Software Development & Leadership experience with Java (12+ years), C++ (14+ years),
Microservices, Event-Driven, Message-Driven, Scalable, Distributed Applications On-Prem & in the Cloud
Technical Experience
 Recent 5+ years in developing Microservices using Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, Redis, Docker, AWS etc.
 Strong knowledge of Java with 12+ years of experience in using Core Java and related frameworks & technologies.
 Strong knowledge of C++ with 14+ years of experience in using C++ and related technologies & tools.
 Working knowledge of C# and C++/CLI with around 5 years of prior experience using C#, C++/CLI on the .Net Platform.
 Fully hands on with coding - Java, C++ and some Python, Perl, Sed, Awk, Bash - testing, system design & architecture, refactoring,
debugging, performance monitoring & tuning, design improvements, database & query optimization etc.
 Recent experience with MySQL database query optimization and performance improvement in the current organization.
 Prior experience in migrating & porting web software written in C++, Perl, PHP from legacy FreeBSD to Linux platform.
 Prior experience in developing desktop software for mathematical & statistical analysis, using C++, C# .Net, C++/CLI.
 Focus on writing high quality, efficient, maintainable, well-documented code that uses minimal computing resources.

Leadership & Management Experience

 Leading teams managing end-to-end application development & maintenance across multiple roles for 12+ years
 Strong proponent & practitioner of Agile with 13+ years of agile experience including past 6+ years as Scrum Master.
 Driving technical direction & roadmaps for teams, mentor junior & mid-level engineers on both technical & soft skills.
 Cross-collaborating with different engineering teams and stakeholders across geographies to deliver solutions.
 Organizing internal trainings for new joiners, customer-facing & other teams across organization in the current work.
 Help building high-performance teams by recruiting the best people & retaining them by engaging, challenging work.
Strong communication & interpersonal skills, ever enthusiastic about learning new languages & technologies needed for
the job, strong work ethics, proven track record of delivering products on time, every time - with quality!

Technical Skills
 Core Java (12+ years), Collections, Generics, Concurrency, C++ (14+ years), STL, Containers, Templates,
 Algorithms & Data Structures, Design Patterns, Object-Oriented Design, Architecture, Scalability, High Availability
 Microservices, Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, Docker, REST, gRPC, Splunk, RocketMQ, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ
 Streaming Applications, Asynchronous & Distributed Systems, Reactive Systems, Functional Programming
 Other technologies: Redis, Hazelcast, Memcached, New Relic, Perl, Shell, Python, Scala, C#.Net, Spark, Hive, Node.js
 Databases (RDBMS) - Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, H2, DB2, SQLite | NoSQL DBs – DocumentDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB
 Operating Systems - Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS), Unix (Solaris, FreeBSD), Windows, Mac OS

Work Experience
Company Designation Years Duration Domain
Mayhem Studios (MPL) Staff Engineer ~1 Aug30 2021 – Date Mobile & AAA Gaming
TiVo Corp India / Xperi Principal Software Engineer ~4 Aug01 2017 – Apr23 2021 IPTV, VOD & Metadata
MarketShare Inc (Neustar) Technical Leader ~2 Apr01 2015 – July31 2017 Predictive Analytics
PayPal India, Chennai Lead Technical ~3 Jun28 2012 – Mar28 2015 Payments & Wallets
Yahoo! India Tech Lead ~2 July06 2010 – Apr05 2012 E-Commerce
JDA (i2 Technologies) Senior Software Engineer ~1 Sep17 2009 – July02 2010 Supply Chain
Cranes Software (Systat) Senior Software Engineer ~5 Feb14 2005 – Sep16 2009 Statistics & Data Analytics
Larsen & Toubro Ltd (non-IT) Sales & Application Engineer ~1 July08 2003 – Jan31 2005 Mining & Construction

Educational Background
Degree / Exam Year Institute / College / School University / Board CGPA / Marks
B-TECH Honors 2003 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur IIT Kharagpur 7.53 / 10
ISC Exam (10+2) 1998 Rajendra Vidyalaya, Jamshedpur CISC (ICSE) 82.60 %
ICSE Exam (10th) 1996 Church School, Jamshedpur CISC (ICSE) 86.30 %

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Work Experience – Details and Achievements
8. Mayhem Studios | Mobile Premier League (MPL), Bangalore, Aug30 2021 – till Date
1. Leading the team & building the backend of Underworld Gang Wars, the first AAA Battle Royale game rooted in India.
2. Designed a Generic Matchmaking Framework for Multiplayer Online Games.

7. Xperi Corporation | TiVo Corporation India, Bangalore, Aug01 2017 – April23 2021
Products SOCU - a set of microservices enabling Start-Over & Catch-Up (SOCU) features for VOD programs
Roles & Team Senior Developer & Architect, Engineering Lead in two different teams of 8 members each
Technologies Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, Docker, AWS, DocumentDB, MongoDB, Splunk, Jenkins, Hazelcast
– Lead & managed the complete design, development & deployment of SOCU features working across teams - QE, DevOps,
TechOps, NOC ensuring end-to-end delivery & documentation with well-defined SLAs & performance metrics.
– Designed & implemented the core component & improved scale/performance of others by 10 to 60 times.
– Ideated, helped develop a monitoring dashboard, a service management tool to monitor, manage the services.
– Stressed on code quality & non-functional aspects of programming by mandating unit test coverage above 90%, diligently
following programming best practices and multiple rounds of code reviews.

Products Pubmind - a java server handling requests to process data before pushing them to the DB
Role & Team Senior Developer & Programmer (DB Analysis, Troubleshooting) in a team of 8 members
Technology JVM, Garbage Collection, Visual VM, Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT), MySQL Workbench
– Diagnosed and fixed memory usage issues due to high query-caching by Hibernate, decreased the memory footprint by
approximately 20%. Also solved the 100% CPU usage and freezing problem of the server.
– Optimized DB by optimizing queries, improving code/algorithms that did the DB operations, fixing the table indexes by
creating/dropping indexes and/or fixing queries to use existing indexes.
– Achieved dramatic improvements in performance & latency ranging from 20-30% to ~10000% (100 times). In the process, solved
a blocking issue with DB Migration from MariaDB version 5.x to 10.x

6. MarketShare | Neustar, Bangalore, April01 2015 - July31 2017

Products Market Data Analytics Suite of Products
Description Based on analytics of historical data, this application enables user to simulate & optimize future
advertising spends in real time to maximize ROI - Return on Investment
Role & Team Senior Developer & Architect and Individual Contributor in a team of 10 members
Technology Core Java, Oracle SQL, Spark, Hive, AWS, RabbitMQ, New Relic, Memcached
– Added features, bugfixes to backend Java servers, designed & implemented multi-tenancy in the application.
– Researched on auto-scaling, and migration of the application to big-data ecosystem - Spark - for scaling.

5. PayPal India, Chennai, June28 2012 - Mar28 2015

Products Java Batch for Queuing and Publishing Messages
Description A batch application that helps manipulate backend queues of a home-grown message queue framework
to retry the failed messages / replay the successful messages by re-queueing them
Role & Team Design Lead & Architect, Programmer, and the Scrum Master in a team of 8-10 members
Technologies Core Java, Asynchronous IO, Oracle SQL
– Completely designed and architected the application and implemented most of the important core parts.
– Lead the team to be a high-performance Agile team, my team was awarded the best scrum team out of 20+ teams.

Products Co-Branded Credit Cards Wallet APIs, Dispute Resolution for Discover/PayPal Integration
Description Onboarding of new CBCC cards | Workflow for raising disputes and resolution
Role & Team Design Lead & Architect, Programmer, and the Scrum Master in a team of 8-10 members
Technologies C++, Client-Server, GTest/GMock testing framework, Core Java, ActiveMQ, Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow,
Web Services, REST, Junit, PowerMockito
– Designed & implemented an authorization layer in the Wallet REST webservices APIs.
– Designed & Implemented a Java Server daemon that processed messages received from a message queue.

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 – Lead a drive for >= 90% unit-tests coverage for the project, helped the team with difficult mocking scenarios.
– As the Scrum Master, improved code quality by stressing on multiple cycles of rigorous code & test reviews

4. Yahoo! India, Bangalore, July06 2010 - April05 2012

Products Store - http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/, FreeBSD-to-Linux Migration, In-Site Search
Description A large, complex, distributed web-application that serves as a marketplace for sellers
Role / Team Technical Lead and Programmer in a team of 14 members
Technology C++, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, SQLite, Memory Mapped Synchronization etc.
– Migrated or ported 1700+ C++, Perl, and PHP packages from FreeBSD to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
– Led across teams to improve build process implementing Continuous Integration by solving common issues and creating common
guidelines for building and deploying packages, using Perl extensively for automation.
– Solved synchronization issues with SQLite DB file that was accessed by multiple processes.
– Improved performance of search in by ~9-11 times in the In-Site Search component of Catalogue Manager

3. JDA Software | I2 Technologies, Bangalore, Sep17 2009 - July02 2010

Product Replenishment Planner helps replenish the retail inventory keeping overall costs optimized
Technologies C++, Java, C# .Net, Perl, Python, Oracle/DB2, Solaris, Toad
Role & Team Designer & Programmer in a team of 12 members
– Developed & maintained the core engine in written in C++ & the main application written in C# and Java

2. Cranes Software | Systat Software, Bangalore, Feb14 2005 - Sep16 2009

Product SYSTAT - 11, 12, 13 - a desktop application for powerful statistical analysis and graphics
Role & Team Innovator, Designer & Programmer in a team of 14 members, sometimes ~ 40 members
Technologies C++, Red Hat Linux 9, STL, Java, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Qt, Algorithms & Data Structures
– Conceptualized, designed & fully implemented 6-7 times faster, beautiful & colorful output rendering library replacing
suboptimal, B&W, ugly rendering third-party library. A highly advanced, complex scheme of rendering tabular data in classic text-
graphics (as in SQL query results console) handling cell text wrapping, alignment, left-center-right justification, printing support
by wrapping huge tables by splitting row-wise, column-wise etc. This feature alone became the widely appreciated key USP of
SYSTAT-12 that increased its acceptance & sales.
– Led a team of 40 people for I/O standardization using above library, achieved target in hours rather than in days.
– Developed internationalization (i18n) & localization (l10n) support in SYSTAT using IOStreams library in C++.
– Solved major floating-point comparison issue in the application using an algorithm from Donald Knuth’s AOCP
– Single-handedly ported SYSTAT-11 from Windows to Linux, helped developing the UI for Mac OS using QT.
– Created C# .Net assemblies for SYSTAT core engine written in C++ using C++/CLI for clients
– Led a team of 14 for migration of 'Quick Graphs' from legacy APIs to new APIs by creating common guidelines.
– Integrated a Java module into SYSTAT application that is written in C++ by translating Java code to C++

1. Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Bangalore, Kolkata, July08 2003 - Jan31 2005
– 1.5 years of rich experience into Sales and Marketing of Heavy Earth-Moving Machines (HEMM) – excavators, dozers, wheel
loaders, high-capacity GPS enabled trucks, etc. in the mining, construction, and the iron & steel industry.
– Introduced the very first two machines in the country of the new model - PC400, bagging a deal of INR 8 crore.
– Extensive marketing skills, people and communication skills were inculcated and applied during work!

Hobbies, Interests & Achievements

 Art – I paint and sketch for which I have won several awards, I love creating great diagrams for design & architecture.
 Writing – I love creating good documentation for the software I develop, I write blogs/stories on social media & internet.
 Teaching – I like to explain and make complex subjects easy to understand, I love to teach my son and other children.
 Social Work – I make contributions of money and time to certain non-profit organizations in the field of education.
 Guitar – I have a master’s degree in Hawaiian Guitar, I was a Classical Music performer @ All India Radio, Jamshedpur.
 Music – I sing as a hobby and do music production using DAW software, I have a YouTube channel of my creations.
 Reading – I like to read non-fiction, science, mathematics, technology, psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.
 Walking/Cycling – I love to walk and cycle (long distance cycling) for keeping healthy, these are like meditation for me!