# Spotlight on Engineering: Shubham Bhargav

**You're a Data Engineer at Postman. What would you say ... you do here?**> *Well, my job is pretty simple. I am the guy who moves data around and bugs people about it more often than doing my own job.*  *Talking from a technical perspective, I use AWS well-managed services to implement data pipelines, monitor, and manage them on a daily basis.*

 **You've been with Postman for 8 months now. How did you get started working here?**> *I've always been interested in working with tech-intense companies. When I applied to Postman for a Data Engineering role, quite frankly, I was scared as hell because I don’t come from a Computer Science background. And I am still learning.* *The interview process varied from evaluating my communication skills to digging deep into my one of the first projects as a Mechanical Engineer. At the end, I realised that the majority of the discussions centered around solving real life problems. Somehow I got through, and it has been one crazy ride since then.*

 **What's the most interesting data set that you've worked with at Postman?**> *This past summer, Postman opened up a lot of our features to free users with limited usage. When the data started coming in, it made a lot of sense and confirmed what we suspected. People were interested in using these features and then would upgrade to Pro or Enterprise.* *Like any good product-driven company, the Developer Experience is important to us. We have always focused on identifying the pain points for our users.* *Recently, we started analyzing the patterns of usage among our power users to provide insight into designing features and templates for our new users.*

 **What tech do you get to work with?**> *I primarily work with Python and AWS to implement stuff in our analytics infrastructure. Our pipelines are mostly built on serverless services:*- *Kinesis Firehose (Data Streaming)*
> - *API Gateway (Serverless API)*
> - *Lambda (Serverless Processing)*
> - *Redshift (Warehouse)*

 **What is one thing everyone should know about the Postman app?**> *Automation is something that I strive for using whatever tool I'm working with. I automate the monitoring of APIs using [Postman monitors](https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/monitors/intro-monitors/) and [test cases](https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/scripts/test-scripts/) to keep things in check.* *Another thing that I really, really like about Postman is [workflow management](https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/collection-runs/building-workflows/) using the `.setNextRequest()` function. It was such a helpful feature for me that I implemented this internally in our analytics stack as well.*

 **What’s something cool you’ve worked on recently?**> *In between a lot of official Data Engineering projects, I somehow got involved in working on creating a new reliable messaging service from scratch. The idea behind this Postman side project was to enable micro-services to talk with each other, and to send information without relying on the availability of the destination service.*

 **What is something we don’t know about you?**> *I don’t know whether I should call myself a gaming fan or not, but I am an Age of Empires fan, for sure. I have been playing it since 9th standard. Still a noob though.* *Other than that, I read “techy” stuff. Recently, I have started digging deep into the internal workings of databases, and I'm hoping to create one myself some day.*

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