Arpit Bhayani

About

I am a software engineer and engineering leader passionate about databases and system architecture. Currently, I am a Principal Engineer II at Razorpay, working at the intersection of data and AI. Previously, I was a Staff Engineer at Google, where I worked on GCP Memorystore and GCP Dataproc. On the side, I am building - DiceDB which is fork of Valkey with multi-tiering and query subscriptions.I also spend time on independent research, publishing my work on ArXiv. My areas of interest include databases, approximate algorithms, and distributed systems.In 2024, I took a leap of faith and co-founded Profile.fyi, which was later acquired by Mercor. I was part of Amazon's Fast Data Team, where I worked on cold tiering of hot data and developed a seamless query interface across all storage tiers.I held engineering leadership positions (both IC and management) at Unacademy, where I built, grew, and led Search, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, and Data Engineering teams. I hold a total of 12+ years of experience in scaling backend services, taking products and teams from 0 to 1, and beyond.I keep diving deep into engineering details and share my learnings by across my socials and videos on YouTube.