Nikhil Kumar

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India3 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Increased CI/CD pipeline throughput by 71%
  • Saved 13,800 man-hours with Validation Service
  • Designed onboarding course winning Gold at TISS 2024
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in CI/CD and Kubernetes in a SaaS environment.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesCi/cdDocker

Other Skills

ArgoBashC++Docker ProductsGitGo (Programming Language)Graphic DesignHelmJavaMLPython (Programming Language)React.jsUnixVimx86 Assembly

About

Generalist. Productivity nerd. Follow for productivity tips to accelerate how you work and learn. At work I build scalable and reliable systems. Proud of the fact that services I designed in my internship are still used to rollback production incidents at Flipkart. I enjoy the entire process of solving hard problems with great ownership and a bias for action.

Experience

Uber

Software Development Engineer 2

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · On-site

KubernetesCI/CDDockerJavaML

Flipkart

3 roles

Software Engineer 2

Apr 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • On the Developer Productivity team, working on 'Flow', Flipkart’s internal Kubernetes-based CI/CD platform for 5000+ microservices. I covered Flow in this tech talk at Rootconf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXTgETS9XU
  • Increased CI/CD pipeline throughput by 71% (from 350 to 600+/hour) with a new scheduling algorithm that uses historical data and resource availability.
  • Wrote a Validation Service to catch deployment/rollback errors before they happen. It saved 13,800 man-hours in the first 6 months and is now used to enforce governance (stack upgrades, code coverage, etc.).
  • Reduced Docker build times by 50% for all users by implementing remote layer caching. This saves about 3000 platform build-minutes every day.
  • Designed and wrote the V2 APIs and SDK for Flow, which let ML and SRE platforms integrate with our system for things like automatic Java/OS upgrades and ML model deployments.
  • Responsible for core platform features: zero-downtime deployments (canary/blue-green), deployment guardrails, on-demand ephemeral environments, and fast-tracked rollbacks.
  • Designed and ran 'Fk-mini', a self-serve onboarding course for new engineers that won Gold at TISS 2024. I've mentored over 10 batches of new hires through the SDLC process.
DockerCI/CD

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Decreased docker build times by half, Flipkart wide using remote docker layer caching. Worked on performance and progressive delivery enhancements.
CI/CDDocker

Software Engineer

Jan 2022Jul 2022 · 6 mos

  • Worked on features for homegrown CI/CD platform. Revamped rollback and deploy process by adding guardrails, validations and more visibility. Implemented fast tracked rollbacks and other stability improvements.

Education

J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2022

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