# Shaurya Chopra > Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer | Senior-Level IC | Building 0→1 & 1→10 Platforms at Scale Location: Menlo Park, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shauryachopra Backend engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed, event-driven systems that power mission-critical products at massive scale. I specialize in building high-ownership backend platforms in 0→1 and 1→10 environments, where architecture decisions directly impact reliability, velocity, and revenue. At eBay, I’ve architected and delivered multiple core backend platforms—from workflow engines and metadata ingestion systems to real-time, Kafka-driven microservices—supporting hundreds of millions of entities, 100GB+ data migrations, and ~10GB/day ingestion pipelines. My work has directly enabled $250M+ GMV, reduced developer debugging time by ~97%, and cut operational overhead from hours to zero through automation and clean system design. Previously at Apple, I built high-throughput, production-grade backend services handling 12M+ requests/day, with a strong focus on observability, reliability, and performance under load. What I do best: - Design distributed systems & event-driven architectures(Apache Kafka, Java, Spring Boot) that scale cleanly - Build product-driven backend platforms on Kubernetes, Docker & GCP via CI/CD - Own systems end-to-end — federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, ElasticSearch, Prometheus & Grafana - Lead architecture across teams through clear design docs and tradeoff analysis - Eliminate toil via automation, self-serve workflows, and clean abstractions ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff @ eBay Jan 2020 – Present | San Jose, California, United States - Designed and built large-scale metadata ingestion pipelines to unify governance metadata across multiple enterprise systems and databases. - Developed normalization and compaction capabilities to standardize entity naming and reduce inconsistencies across heterogeneous metadata sources. - Owned ingestion scheduling and orchestration using Quartz, including reliability improvements like job timeouts and concurrency tuning. - Implemented asynchronous update mechanisms to keep governance portals and downstream consumers aligned with the latest metadata state. - Built foundational integration testing coverage for ingestion workflows across document stores and graph databases in a multi-threaded environment. - Developed automated operational diagnostics and tracing to improve observability and speed up debugging for ingestion and data-quality issues. - Built services to automate Jira-based governance workflows, including ticket creation, assignment, and lifecycle automation for domain ownership and compliance tracking. - Architected GraphQL-based backend integration layers to provide a unified API experience across streaming, NoSQL, and SQL platforms, reducing developer churn and accelerating onboarding. - Designed self-service workflow platforms to provision and manage data resources through a unified interface, supporting multi-datasource operations like provisioning, schema changes, promotions, and capacity workflows. - Led cross-team architecture and integration efforts, producing design documentation, facilitating technical deep-dives, and aligning backend, frontend, platform, and product teams—including AI-assisted development practices. - Built event-driven microservices to keep listing state and eligibility flags consistent in real time at scale via Kafka and cache update patterns. ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area - Designed and developed RESTful architecture based alert management application to reduce manual effort 100% for managing Splunk alerts - Reduced efforts of Production Support team 10% by developing spring boot application to report misfired alerts during the CR - Created shell scripts utility to capture stats for debugging issues related to access of application (radar) saving 20 min and lot of efforts per debugging session. - Identifying, gathering and analyzing and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs and alerts. - Created pro-active alerting system in Splunk to avoid contention of backend services and to better understand users load profile - Support business user to understand user issues, develop root cause analysis and work with team for development of enhancements/fixes - Monitoring and diagnosis of application, which receives 12 million requests daily for optimal performances ### Associate Technology L2 @ SapientRazorfish Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Gurgaon, India • Implemented product solr indexer which contained Parsing, Tokenizing, Filtering and Indexing of about thousands of product articles • Designed and developed product manual microsite of Sage Appliances by creating OSGI Java classes to retrieve media data from digital asset management platform. • Automated process of contacting stakeholder of the project in case of high priority issues using RESTful api of Twilio • Created automatic reporting workflows of bugs logged in JIRA and ServiceNow by leveraging their APIs • Facilitated development of AEM components and templates leveraging the current AEM version. • Managed AEM web application with backend developed in JAVA. • Implemented custom components, widgets, dialogs and others extensions for AEM platform • Implemented design of touch-ui dialogs by creating custom js to facilite mobile authoring. • Created files to instruct web roots on how to crawl pages on client website. ### Associate Technology L1 @ SapientNitro Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India • Helmed design and development of AEM 5.5 components for mobile site of Illinois Lottery • Conducted detail evaluation of web application on AEM 5.6 and AEM 6.0 platform • Used Maven Scripts to build the application and the continuous integration server to deploy the artifacts • Performed sonar fixes to provide the best code quality • Created, maintained and updated the technical documents for client reference • Assisted technical manager in bi-weekly production deployment of change requests • Entered and updated Issues (defects and tasks) onto JIRA Agile application for organized tracking ### Intern @ SapientNitro Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India • Implemented wishlist functionality for B2C online Book Store, based on Spring-MVC platform • Conducted quality check of B2B and B2C websites, created on Hybris platform • Attended technical training programs to align myself with industry practices ## Education ### Master's degree in Information Systems University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business ### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/choprashaurya --- Source: https://flows.cv/shauryachopra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shauryachopra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-18