Nakul Arya

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Generated $3M incremental revenue through email campaigns.
Reduced incidents from 16/month to zero in ad systems.
Mentored engineering teams to deliver fault-tolerant systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and microservices across ecommerce and fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaMicroservices

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsData StructuresDatabasesDjangoEvent-driven architectureGitGithubJUnitJavaScriptLeadershipLinuxManagementMockitoMongoDB

About

Backend Engineer with around 6 years of experience designing and implementing scalable systems, distributed microservices, and high-performance backend infrastructure. Proven track record in service ownership, incident reduction, and cloud cost optimization across ecommerce, D2C foodtech, and data integrity platforms. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Python and event-driven architectures. Strong advocate for clean code, observability, and scalable design. 🏆 Awarded the Licious Integrity Value Award and winner of the TopCoder University Hackathon. Passionate about mentoring and leading engineering teams to deliver fault-tolerant, business-critical systems that drive measurable impact.

Experience

Quince

SDE 3

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

📧 Email Recommendations Pipeline
Architected and refactored the product recommendation system to ensure consistent item ordering and boost reliability and observability.
Impact: Delivered consistent and accurate product suggestions in email campaigns.
Business Outcome: Generated $3M incremental revenue in 2024 from promotional emails.
🚀 Feed Generation System
Revamped a fragile, critical ad feed system into a fault-tolerant service with zero downtime.
Impact: Reduced incidents from 16/month to zero, implemented comprehensive monitoring, and significantly improved system robustness.
Business Outcome: Enabled $0.5M/day ad-spend optimization through enhanced reliability.
️🎯 Dynamic Ad Pausing Engine
Designed a system to dynamically pause ads based on over 10 input parameters.
Impact: Enhanced system control and precision targeting of ads.
Business Outcome: Improved ROAS from 3.4 to 4.1, reducing spend on under-performing ads.
👩‍💻 Engineering Leadership
Mentored SDE-2 engineers, led critical code reviews and design discussions, and coached team members on Git workflows and best engineering practices.

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesAWSObservabilityGit

Licious

2 roles

SDE 2

Promoted

Apr 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

💰 Wallet Service
Led the high-level and low-level design, and managed a team of 3 engineers to build an internal digital wallet system from scratch.
Impact: Enabled seamless online payments by launching a new in-house payment platform.
Business Outcome: Saved ₹22 Lakhs/month by removing dependency on third-party payment providers.
🛒 Cart & Checkout Microservices
Owned the end-to-end Cart and Checkout services, driving seamless and reliable purchase flows for lakhs of users.
Impact: Enhanced system stability and reduced friction in the checkout process, improving user experience.
Business Outcome: Increased conversion rates and reduced checkout-related failures, directly contributing to revenue growth.
💲 Pricing Service
Implemented an event-driven architecture to propagate price changes in real-time to downstream systems, ensuring data synchronization and operational efficiency.
Impact: Enabled accurate and consistent pricing by supporting both bulk and individual price updates.
Business Outcome: Improved pricing accuracy and responsiveness, reducing discrepancies and enhancing overall system reliability.
🧱➡️🧩 Monolith to Microservices Migration
Drove the migration of a legacy monolith into performant, scalable microservices.
Impact: Reduced API response time from 6 seconds to 300ms and lowered DB load by 60k RPM.
Business Outcome: Dramatically improved system scalability and customer experience.

JavaMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureAWSGit

SDE 1

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bestseller Widget: Built a widget to recommend popular products based on location and 8+ variables.
Impact: Integrated dynamic product suggestions.
Business Outcome: 🛒Add-to-cart rate increased by 2%

JavaMicroservices

Precisely | trust in data

2 roles

Software Engineer I

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos

🗄️ Precisely Connect Application
Added Oracle and PostgreSQL database integrations to enhance the core Connect application.
Impact: Enabled multi-database support improving data accessibility and flexibility.
Business Outcome: Strengthened platform’s compatibility with enterprise-grade databases, facilitating wider adoption.
🔐 Authentication - Shared Services
Integrated Precisely Connect application with Keycloak for centralized authentication and authorization.
Impact: Implemented secure, standardized user management and SSO capabilities.
Business Outcome: Improved security posture and streamlined user experience across services.
🔄 IBM Partner Engagement Module
Modernized REST API calls by migrating the activity framework to use Netflix Zuul API Gateway.
Impact: Achieved 100% API routing through Zuul, improving scalability and maintainability.
Business Outcome: Enhanced system performance and partner integration reliability.

JavaREST APIsPostgreSQLOracle

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs

Precisely is a global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy and consistency in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 90 % of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.

Ibm

SDE Intern

May 2018 – Nov 2018 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

IBM Watson Campaign Automation
Contributed to enhancing SaaS quality and reliability by developing and maintaining automation scripts for key workflows. Leveraged Selenium, Fitnesse, JUnit, and Mockito to automate UI and Unit testing and ensure robust product performance.
Impact: Increased test coverage and reduced manual testing effort, leading to faster release cycles and fewer production issues.
Business Outcome: Improved product stability and user experience, supporting smoother campaign automation for clients.

SeleniumJUnitMockito