# Abhin S. > Software Engineer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhin About personal website: www.abhin-sharma.com Backend engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-availability infrastructure. Currently building at Puzzle, managed distributed node infrastructure with 99%+ uptime serving 300K+ users. Contributed to TypeScript microservices, Rust-based load balancers, chain indexers, and full observability pipelines (Prometheus + Grafana). Previously at Kibo: rearchitected recommendation algorithms serving millions of e-commerce customers, achieving double-digit performance improvements for 95th percentile latency. Technical focus: Python, TypeScript, Rust, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, high-availability systems. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ puzzle Jan 2023 – Present • Operated Aleo validator infrastructure managing $10M+ TVL with 99%+ uptime, serving 300K+ users • Contributed to tRPC + MongoDB backend routes and services, strengthening core infrastructure and enabling new user workflows • Wrote a Rust-based load balancer and contributed to a chain indexer to improve reliability and performance of validator and client node operations • Managed Google Cloud infrastructure for validator/client nodes, ensuring 99+% uptime and scalability of distributed systems • Deployed full observability pipeline with Prometheus + Grafana, integrated with Slack/on-call tooling for real-time alerts and metrics ### Software Engineer @ Kibo Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Kibo Personalization, powered by the industry leader Monetate, is the leading personalization software, recognized by key industry analysts. From sophisticated A/B testing to AI-driven personalization, harness patented technology to delight your customers with impactful individualized experiences, resulting in increased engagement, conversions, and lifetime value. • Rearchitected recommendation algorithms to precompute data improving cache hit rate and resulting in double digit improvements in performance latency for slowest 95th percentile performing recommendations • Designed, developed, and tested new recommendation algorithms and RESTful apis spanning both the front-end (React) and back-end (Python, MySQL) to personalize ecommerce experiences for top tier clients reaching millions of e-commerce customers • Led all sprint rituals including standups, refinements, and retrospectives collaborating with engineering, product, and design • Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, and customer success to help close and provide support for multi-million dollar deals and helped onboard and mentor new engineers ### Co-Founder @ HeadCam Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Created, designed, and developed a wearable live-streaming camera using a Raspberry Pi, Python and OpenCV • Successfully negotiated 2 letters of intents with two of the largest streaming providers in billiards and chess totaling $8,000+ in value • Completed 30+ interviews with potential users and customers and incorporated feedback into product development • Successfully raised initial capital from a Chicago venture capital fund ### Owner @ Shopify Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Increased conversion rates by 2-3% using monthly customer and business reports developed in Python and R based on incoming data from google analytics, fb analytics, and google adwords • Built, designed, and developed profitable ecommerce store using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript achieving ~ 30% gross margins • Negotiated, developed, and managed 3 partnership deals with suppliers to fulfill product orders and meet customers’ needs at all times of the day, 7 days a week • Created successful direct to consumer marketing campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, and Google ad platforms achieving conversion rates as high as 10% ### Summer Analyst @ Eagle Value Partners Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States • Assisted in building financial models with 3-year projections of several publicly traded companies in the automobile, pharmaceutical, and retail industries and shared findings with the hedge fund manager • Conducted and shared bottom-up research on several publicly traded companies by carefully reading through SEC filings and reaching out to investor relations and management for further inquiries and information • Discussed valuations and company strategy in buy-side IPO roadshow meeting featuring company management and over 50 money managers ### Summer Analyst @ Eagle Value Partners Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States • Conducted extensive financial analysis of the UK brick industry and culminated findings into a three-year projected free cash flow-based model accounting for excess depreciation and amortization • Completed bottom-up research into the UK brick industry constituents talking with investor relations and company management and presented research findings and financial model to hedge fund manager • Participated and discussed in an intensive week-long course taught by a Columbia professor in order to achieve further proficiency in discounted-cash flow modeling and other value-based modeling techniques ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Economics University of Chicago Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor's degree in Finance, General Georgia State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Alpharetta High School Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhinsharma - Website: https://www.abhin-sharma.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22