Shikhar Srivastava is a Senior Software Engineer on the Real-time Contributions Engineering team at Bloomberg in London, where he designs and builds high-performance financial data systems. Shikhar is passionate about exploring innovative technologies to enhance real-time data processing. His career journey spans from developing machine learning models for ETA prediction at startups in India to architecting low-latency market data solutions at Bloomberg. Lately, he has been diving deep into Apache Cassandra, making use of its distributed database capabilities to tackle scalability challenges.