Shivam is an accomplished Software Development Engineer at ShareChat, currently working with the Livestream Data Science team. Shivam owns and maintains the backend services that deliver personalized livestream and chatroom feeds, ranked in real-time to millions of users. Previously, Shivam worked on ShareChat’s Central Data Platform, where he led the development and maintenance of a Kafka Streams-based counters framework, enabling real-time aggregation and updates of organizational metrics. With extensive experience in Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, and Redpanda, Shivam has a deep understanding of real-time data processing and distributed systems, and is passionate about building scalable and efficient streaming solutions. In today’s session, Shivam will share his expertise and insights into leveraging Kafka for real-time personalization at scale.