# Abhishek Jain

> Staff Software Engineer | Platform Engineering | Top Writer @Quora | Ex-Entrepreneur — based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Staff Software Engineer at ArisMachina, building Protos (AI copilot for frontier R&D teams) and Gemba (AI agents for the manufacturing shop floor) — with a focus on platform engineering, developer experience, full-stack product development, and LLM-powered agents. 16+ years of experience building and scaling critical infrastructure at companies like Spotify, Omio, and Deutsche Bank. Previously maintained Spotify's Version Control Systems (GitHub Enterprise Server & Artifactory) hosting all of Spotify's source code repositories and served as Incident Manager On Call (IMOC) for company-wide incidents, and led CI/CD infrastructure serving 3,000+ engineers and processing thousands of builds daily. Proven track record in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and DevOps with expertise in Java, modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). Ex-entrepreneur who ran a technology startup for 2.5 years and has successfully led cross-functional teams of 10+ engineers while remaining hands-on with code. Strong community contributor with 20K+ Stack Overflow reputation (top 2% globally), 9K+ Quora followers (Top Writer), and content reaching ~7M developers. Google Cloud certified engineer passionate about developer experience, infrastructure reliability, and driving technical excellence through mentorship and open-source contributions.

## Links

- Portfolio: https://abhi.logkat.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhi347
- GitHub: https://github.com/Abhi347
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/abhi347
- Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1079901/0xc0ded00d
- Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Abhishek-Jain-25
- Medium: https://medium.com/@Abhi347
- Email: abhi.outlook347@gmail.com

## Current role

- **Staff Software Engineer — ArisMachina** (Mar 2026 - Present) — Building ArisMachina's Agentic OS for Modern Manufacturing — Protos (AI copilot for frontier R&D teams) and Gemba (ever-ready AI agents for the manufacturing shop floor). Focused on platform engineering, developer experience, full-stack product, and LLM-powered agents.

## Recent experience

- **Staff Software Engineer — ArisMachina** (Mar 2026 - Present) — Building ArisMachina's Agentic OS for Modern Manufacturing — Protos (AI copilot for frontier R&D teams) and Gemba (ever-ready AI agents for the manufacturing shop floor). Focused on platform engineering, developer experience, full-stack product, and LLM-powered agents.
- **Senior Full Stack Engineer — Spotify** (Sept 2020 - Dec 2025) — Owned Version Control Systems (GitHub Enterprise Server & Artifactory), served as IMOC for company-wide incidents, drove AI integration, led monorepo migration, maintained OSS github-java-client, member of Studio Tech Steering Committee.
- **Senior Software Engineer / Security Champion — Omio (formerly GoEuro)** (June 2019 - Sept 2020) — Apps & Retention tribe: Micro-Frontend React/TypeScript/Redux, heterogeneous microservices (Node.js/Hapi.js/Go/Spring), Docker/Kubernetes/Jenkins/GCP, Security Champion, developer tools, Node.JS & Frontend chapter member.
- **Engineer - Associate — Deutsche Bank (DBOI)/DWS** (July 2018 - June 2019) — Platform UI team lead, Muster OSS contributor, Lighthouse UI (dws.com - AEM/React), re-architected from jQuery/Bootstrap to React/Babel.

## Skills (top categories)

- **Languages**: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Golang (Go), Python, Scala, Groovy, Swift, C#, Bash/Zsh, SQL
- **Platform & Infrastructure**: GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES), JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Helios
- **DevOps & Observability**: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Graphite, Kibana, Git, Jira
- **Backend Frameworks**: Apollo (Spotify), Springboot, Node.js, Express, Hapi.js, FastAPI, Google Guice
- **Frontend**: React, Angular, Redux, GraphQL, Webpack, Material UI, Storybook, ESLint, Babel
- **Cloud Platforms**: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Firebase, GKE, EKS
- **Databases**: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Google Cloud Datastore, Google Cloud SQL, AWS DynamoDB, SQLite
- **Testing**: Jest, Puppeteer, Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Mockito
- **Mobile**: Android, iOS
- **Legacy Experience**: AngularJS, jQuery, Objective-C, C++
- **Build & Monorepo**: Gradle, Maven, Bazel, Conventional Commits, Pants (awareness), Buck (awareness)
- **SCM & Governance**: GitHub Apps, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), Secret Scanning, Dependabot, SCIM Automation, Okta, SAML, SSO, LDAP, Audit Logging, Repository Governance
- **CI/CD & Automation**: CI/CD Pipelines, Workload Identity Federation (OIDC), Jenkins Pipeline (Declarative), Composite GitHub Actions
- **IaC & Config**: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, YAML, JSON
- **Cloud & Security**: GCP IAM, Artifact Registry, Container Registry, Secret Manager, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, Audit Logging
- **Observability & SRE**: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring & Alerting, Logging, Tracing, Prometheus, OpenCensus, OpenTelemetry, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, Incident Management (IMOC)
- **Developer Experience**: Backstage Plugin Development, Golden Paths, Scaffolding, Template Governance, Developer Portal Operations
- **AI & DevTools**: GitHub Copilot Administration, Policy & Rollout, Supply Chain Security (SLSA), Sigstore, Cosign
- **AI / LLM / Agentic**: Anthropic Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku), OpenAI GPT-4 / GPT-5, Open-weights LLMs (Llama, Mistral), Prompt Engineering, Tool Use / Function Calling, Structured Outputs, Agentic AI / Multi-agent Orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic Agent SDK, Google ADK (Agent Development Kit), LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CopilotKit, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Embeddings, Vector Search, Qdrant, pgvector, Neo4j Knowledge Graphs, LLM Evals & Regression Testing, Langfuse (LLM Tracing & Observability)
- **Packaging & Artifacts**: Maven Repository Management, NPM Registry Management, Release Workflows
- **Testing Strategies**: End-to-End Pipelines, Integration Tests, Unit Tests, Smoke Tests, Canary Releases

## Achievements

- Open Source Contributor - Maintainer of Spotify's github-java-client, an official Java library with 200+ stars
- Tech Leadership - Member of Spotify's Studio Tech Steering Committee, driving technical excellence across 2,000+ engineers
- Community Impact - 20K+ Stack Overflow reputation (top 2% globally, top 1% in Android, top 5% in JavaScript/GCP), reaching ~7M developers
- Content Creator - Quora Top Writer with 9K+ followers, sharing technical knowledge across web, mobile, and cloud technologies
- Cloud Advocate - Successfully promoted and migrated multiple companies from on-prem infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform

## Pages

- [Home](https://abhi.logkat.dev/) — overview, badges, current focus
- [Experience](https://abhi.logkat.dev/experience) — full work history
- [Projects](https://abhi.logkat.dev/projects) — selected projects
- [Resume](https://abhi.logkat.dev/resume) — full resume (PDF available)
- [Full content for LLMs](https://abhi.logkat.dev/llms-full.txt) — long-form version of this file