Nikhil Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

Delhi, India2 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Architected AI-driven workflows for improved efficiency.
Developed scalable systems handling millions of users.
Achieved significant performance optimizations across platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Full Stack Developer with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring BootReact.jsNext.jsKafka

Other Skills

BFS crawlingSeleniumVanilla JSGPT-4o miniBrowser APIsGitGitHubSQLApache KafkaElasticsearchAzure OpenAIGenAIGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Search ConsoleWeb Content Optimization

About

Hi, Nikhil here 👋 I’m a Senior Software Engineer at InfoEdge (Naukri.com), where I build scalable, high-performance web and mobile applications used by millions of users. I work across the full stack with a strong focus on system design, performance, and reliability. Lately, I’ve been deeply involved in building AI-driven workflows integrating LLMs, automation pipelines, and intelligent systems into real-world products to improve efficiency and user experience. • Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Redux, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, Web Performance Optimization, SEO • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, API Design, Caching Strategies, Kafka, Aerospike, Elasticsearch, SQL, MongoDB • DevOps / Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git I enjoy tackling problems at scale—whether it’s handling high-throughput systems, optimizing latency, or designing resilient architectures. Always open to conversations around impactful engineering, AI, and building products at scale. 📩 hi.nikhildev@gmail.com

Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 4 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Info edge india ltd

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Architected and built LLM Batch Processing Engine (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka) integrating OpenAI and Gemini Batch APIs with JSONL pipelines, retry strategies, and async publishing, cutting LLM inference costs by 50% across teams. Shipped self-serve Next.js dashboard enabling teams to configure models, control token/cost limits, and monitor batch jobs independently.
Developed web crawling pipeline covering 500K+ companies (80% coverage, 95%+ accuracy) using BFS crawling, 2-stage GPT extraction, and Selenium for CSR content, powering company profile pages and replacing 1 year of manual ops effort with weekly automated runs.
Led development of cross-platform GenAI Chatbot (AskAI), building a Vanilla JS SDK to embed across React/Vue micro-frontends and a Java middleware service for rate limiting, feature-flag rollout, and real-time LLM streaming (SSE) grew to 7,000+ unique user chats/day with 40%+ increase in avg. session duration.

javaSpring BootKafkaNext.jsJava

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Designed event-driven GenAI tagging pipeline (GPT-4o mini + Kafka) to semantically tag posts across multiple communities vs. prior single-community constraint sub-second inference at 5,000+ posts/day, boosting feed discoverability at scale.
Resolved critical page performance bottleneck across 1M+ pages, reducing interaction latency from 2100ms to 150ms (93% improvement) by eliminating recurring timers, deferring non-render work, and batching DOM updates via requestAnimationFrame, significantly improving SEO rankings, page responsiveness, and user experience at scale.
Cut JSON crawl load from 48% to 4% across 200M crawl requests by blocking non-critical JS and bot-specific resources improving crawl budget allocation and rendering efficiency at scale.
Migrated In-Hand Salary Calculator from Vue to Next.js with fully client-side tax computations and zero backend round-trips, improving page load speed and SEO grew to 25–30K DAU with 90%+ positive feedback and 10% increase in organic traffic.

React.jsNext.js

Insidefi

Frontend Developer

Jul 2023 – Dec 2023 · 5 mos · Delhi, India · Hybrid

Architected the Frontend Ecosystem: Designed and implemented a scalable frontend architecture from scratch, balancing SSR (Server-Side Rendering) for SEO and CSR (Client-Side Rendering) for dynamic user interactivity.
Optimized Data Flow: Built a robust API service layer with centralized caching strategies using Browser APIs (IndexedDB/Cache API), reducing redundant network requests by 40%.
Security & Auth: Engineered a secure JWT-based authentication flow, implementing silent refreshes and secure storage to ensure seamless user sessions.

React.jsNext.js

Gocomet

Software Developer

May 2022 – Apr 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Revamped the GoComet homepage with improved components, lazy-loading, and render optimizations, boosting load time, Core Web Vitals, and overall UI responsiveness.
Worked in Agile sprint cycles, following Git Workflows and CI/CD-driven deployments, and improved UI reliability using React Testing Library for automated testing.

React.jsNext.js