Kumar Nitin

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12+ years in engineering leadership roles
Expert in high-QPS, real-time systems
Proven track record in NLP and backend architecture

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer in Fintech and Travel Tech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentBackend ArchitectureMachine Learning

Other Skills

AerospikeAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaArchitectural DesignCassandraDynamoDBElasticsearchGitGolangJavaKafkaLinuxMongoDBMySQLPython

About

Seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems for high-growth consumer tech and fintech platforms. Proven expertise in designing real-time, high-QPS systems and leading cross-functional teams from ideation to launch. Skilled in backend architecture & with prior experience in NLP. Adept at driving impact through tech strategy, deep technical ownership, and stakeholder alignment across business functions.

Experience

Angel one

3 roles

Senior Director of Engineering - Lending

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Director of Engineering - Lending

Jul 2023 – Apr 2024 · 9 mos

Director Of Engineering - KYC

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

Hotstar

Senior Engineer

May 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Communication service: Java, Apache Kafka
Build a framework to send SMS/Call through multiple partners across multiple geographies.
This system can handle peak traffic of 60K QPS
User Management: Java, DynamoDB, Apache Kafka
Build a solution to make phone number as a single source of truth for user identification.
Build a solution to restrict/allow content based on age/geography of the user
Build a SSO solution for third party authentication.

JavaApache KafkaDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Goibibo

Lead Engineer

Mar 2014 – May 2020 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Flights: Golang, Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike
Building products to connect airports of the world in real time.
Autosuggest/Autocomplete: Python, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB
Architected and build contextual autosuggest for the user from scratch.
Goibibo NLP Engine: Python, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL
Architected, developed the entire NLP engine for Goibibo Chatbot
It empowers Goibibo CRM and various other user cases.
The same engine is leveraged by MMT for multiple use cases such as holiday booking.
Hotel auto checkin: Python, OpenCV, CNN, MongoDB
Architected & build the entire system to recognise user's document
Coded the client interface for iOS
Goibibo Wallet: Python, MongoDB, MySQL
Built newer version of Goibibo wallet(goCash)
Architected, designed and developed Price Personalisation Engine for goCash highly optimised & flexible system from scratch.
Gocash Gift: Python, MySQL
Designed & developed goCash gifting & request gift system.
Coded the client interface on iOS
Unique mobile per account system
Leading the iOS team from the front, I was involved right from the stage of requirement, all the way till the product is developed and pushed to the App Store.