I'm a Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, Go, and microservices. Currently pursuing my MSc in Computer Science at EPITA, Paris (Top 10, 16.36/20), with 4+ years of production experience building systems that process thousands of events per second and maintain 99.9% uptime.
🌍 Based in Cachan, France
🎓 B.Tech in Electronics & Communications from JIIT, India
💼 Former Software Engineer at Thriwe (4+ years), building backend infrastructure for FAB, HSBC, and Mastercard
🏆 2x Values Award recipient (Innovation & Impeccable)
- 🏗️ Distributed Systems & Microservices Architecture
- ⚡ Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka (5,000+ events/sec)
- 🔄 CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- 🎯 REST APIs, GraphQL & gRPC
- 🔒 JWT Auth & RBAC for enterprise clients
- 🔧 Built a centralized notification service (SMS/Email/WhatsApp) handling 10,000+ notifications/day with 99.9% uptime, featuring retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency
- 🚀 Led migration from legacy PHP monolith to Go microservices, reducing critical API response times by 30%
- ⚡ Designed Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines processing 5,000+ events/second for banking partners (HSBC, Mastercard)
- ⚙️ Implemented Docker + GitHub Actions deployment pipeline, cutting deployment time from 45 min to 15 min and enabling daily production releases
- 👥 Standardized local dev environments with Docker Compose, reducing developer onboarding from 2 weeks to 2 days
- 🔬 Researched terahertz bi-material sensors with meta-material absorbers at DRDO, improving detection accuracy by 45%
Full-stack GIS application for French forest biodiversity analysis (Île-de-France). Built with Go + GraphQL backend, Next.js + Mapbox GL JS frontend, PostgreSQL + PostGIS for spatial queries, and Redis for MVT tile caching. Features zoom-dependent layer switching, polygon analysis, and bilingual EN/FR support.
POSIX-compliant shell implementation from scratch in Go. Supports pipe handling, I/O redirection, signal management, background execution, and job control.
CLI tool rendering video as ASCII art in real-time using Go and FFmpeg bindings with optimized terminal cursor manipulation.
- 📚 Working through MIT 6.824 (Distributed Systems) — MapReduce and Raft consensus labs
- 📐 Studying MIT 6.006 (Algorithms) — binary heaps, priority queues, graph algorithms
- 🧩 Advent of Code 2025 — 10/25 days, focusing on graph traversal and DP
- 🔥 LeetCode daily streak — 58 days, practicing trees, graphs, and sliding window
- ✍️ Writing about distributed systems — latest: Understanding MapReduce & The 1 Billion Row Challenge
I'm open to internship (Stage PFE) from March 2026 and permanent roles (CDI) from September 2026 (work authorization included). Feel free to reach out!
- 📧 Email: jainarj411@gmail.com
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ariihantijain
- 🌐 Website: arihant-jain.me
- 📄 Resume: arihant-jain.me/resume.pdf
- 📍 Location: Cachan, France
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