# Raxit Solanki > Staff Software Engineer at Shipt | Executive PhD in Information Technology… Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/raxit Innovative Data Engineer | Expert in Golang, Python, Apache Kafka, and AWS, GCP | Passionate about leveraging technology to drive business growth. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Shipt Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shipt Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area Developed microservices to interface with machine learning / deep learning models for automated and optimized retail pricing markups. Achieved a 7% increase in total GMV through optimized pricing strategies. Currently architecting microservices for hosting shopping ads on Google at scale to target new customer acquisition and brand awareness. ### Data Engineer @ Shipt Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Created efficient batch data processing pipelines (ETL) for retailer onboarding and analytics. Adopted Python, Golang, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, BigTable, Snowflake and REST APIs for streamlined operations. Designed and implemented event-driven microservices to further enrich Shipt catalog data feeds in near real-time, reducing the end-to-end flight time by 40%. ### Data Engineer @ Minted Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA, United States Engineered end-to-end Apache Spark Structured streaming pipelines for capturing web page load latency metrics and provided valuable insight on user experience to enhance understanding and optimization. Implemented ELT process to create materialized views in Snowflake representing conceptual User Journeys on the platform. Empowered the data science team to analyze user behavior patterns, utilizing the view as a key resource. ### Data Engineer @ Globe Life Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Culver City, California Crafted batch data pipelines, leveraging AWS Glue (Apache Spark, Python) and AWS Batch, to wrangle data from diverse internal and external sources. Facilitated the marketing team in optimizing advertisement campaign portfolios. Designed data pipelines capturing performance metrics from various sources, including Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Bing Ads. Designed and implemented CI/CD processes for efficient deployment and testing of ETL jobs. Utilized AWS CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and AWS Lambda for streamlined automation. Engineered automation for executing AWS Athena queries on the Glue catalog (S3 buckets - parquet data format) and sending daily reporting results to relevant stakeholders for informed decision-making. ### Data Engineer Fellow @ Insight Data Science Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed a multi-node Spark and Kafka cluster on EC2 instances with AWS Educate Scholarship support. Simulated ~1TB Taxi Rides data stream on partitioned Kafka topics. Developed a greedy matching algorithm for Riders & Drivers using Apache Spark DStreams (Python, Spark Streaming). Created a custom dashboard with Spring Boot, web-socket, and ChartJS to monitor matching metrics. ### Software Engineer Student Assistant @ California State University, Fullerton Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Orange County, California Area Designed and developed web crawlers/spiders using Python (Beautiful Soup, Selenium) to scrape CSUF faculty publications from various websites and build a locally accessible repository for University students. Maintained, wrote, modified, integrated, and tested library software code in Python to comply with federal and state accessibility mandates. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Ujobi Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Orange County, California Area Conducted bug fixes and developed features for a web portal fostering a network of talented students. The portal facilitates students in gaining expertise through real-world projects assigned by individuals or organizations. ### Data Engineer @ eClinicalWorks Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Gujarat, India Implemented ETL data pipelines utilizing Java Map Reduce for aggregation and processing of health insurance claim data, while concurrently establishing Hive-based HDFS partitions for efficient storage & retrieval within the data warehouse environment. Leveraged Hive queries to perform in-depth analysis of the data, subsequently employing Python scripts to export results into MySQL, facilitating the development of customized UI dashboards. ### Research Assistant @ Ganpat University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Gujarat, India Assisted in application research at UTKARSH technology application center, U.V.Patel College of Engineering Kherva. Research publication: "Online Examination Empowerment" and “Accustoms of IOT and security concerns” at International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) . WebApplication: https://github.com/raxit65535/Gate-Empowerment ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science California State University, Fullerton ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Information Technology Ganpat University ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Information Technology University of the Cumberlands ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raxit65535 --- Source: https://flows.cv/raxit JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raxit/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22