Nitish Deshpande

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in software architecture.
Led development of a commerce platform across 25+ countries.
Expertise in mentoring and training development teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-Commerce architect with extensive experience in scalable software solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Spring SecurityKubernetesJava

Other Skills

NginxAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Spring BootRedisSpring MVCSpring CloudGrafanaAzure Key VaultApache DrillShopifySalesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC)Big CommerceFreshdeskFacebook APIOAuth

About

1. With over 12 years of extensive experience, I possess a strong technical expertise in architecting and implementing robust, secure, scalable, and resilient software solutions. My proficiency lies in utilising cutting-edge open-source technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, and various other tools and technologies. 2. I have demonstrated exceptional skills in the commerce domain, having actively contributed to the development of a commerce platform from inception. This platform encompasses various features such as product discovery, catalog navigation, cart and order management, enabling the deployment of an AI-based Shopping Assistant solution. This solution has been successfully implemented across 25+ countries, supporting 15+ languages, 5+ channels, and 30+ global brands. 3. Throughout my career, I have accumulated approximately 7+ years of experience in leadership roles, where I have effectively led, mentored, and trained development teams across multiple projects and organizations. By establishing best practices, implementing coding standards, conducting regular code and architecture reviews, and providing valuable consultation, I have consistently ensured the growth and success of these teams. 4. With over 6 years of experience in engaging with customers, product teams, support teams, and sales teams, I have provided technical consultation at all levels. My ability to understand diverse perspectives and effectively collaborate with stakeholders has proven instrumental in delivering exceptional results.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

10 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Technical Architect

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Thoughtworks

Lead Consultant - Developer

Oct 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed and Led the creation of a collateral verification platform for a leading NBFC in India, significantly enhancing the loan processing workflow.
Resolved critical challenges in a legacy codebase by improving code quality, optimizing application performance, speeding up database queries, and strengthening integration resiliency. These efforts led to a substantial reduction in production incidents and improved project delivery throughput, all while adhering to industry best practices across design, development, testing, and deployment cycles.

Gupshup

Principal Engineer

Jun 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

- Responsible for architecture, design and implementation of a commerce shopping app embedded in WhatsApp. The application is built with strict security guidelines and latency requirements

Spring SecurityNginx

Asksid.ai

Product Architect

May 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs · Bangalore · On-site

Joined as one of the early employees in a bootstrapped AI startup offering a virtual shopping assistant product which was built as a multi-tenant SaaS offering
Responsible in architecting, designing, implementing and scaling the core platform from scratch while working in a small team of 6 engineers. The product was mainly built using open source components deployed on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster catering to customers across 20+ countries
Provided simple, elegant and scalable solutions for complex requirements for a wide variety of Customers from multiple countries, languages and timezones
Gained strong expertise in E-Commerce domain having worked with leading commerce brands across the globe
Strong expertise in integrations and building data processing pipelines
Good working knowledge of leading commerce & service cloud platforms like Shopify, Salesforce Commerce, Big Commerce, Magento, Freshdesk, Kapture, Salesforce Service Cloud etc
Involved in design and implementation of a Claims Management solution for a leading Paints client which is deployed across 6 countries in APAC region

Spring SecurityAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Kubernetes

Mindtree ltd.

Module Lead

Sep 2012 – Apr 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Joined Mindtree in September 2012 as a campus recruit, successfully completing comprehensive training in Java/J2EE technologies.
Played a key role in multiple projects, creating an Eclipse plugin for developer collaboration, building RESTful APIs for an Airline loyalty program, developing an IoT product for industrial asset monitoring, and developing a revenue assurance dashboard with advanced visualizations for business leaders in Mindtree.
Proactively contributed to organizational knowledge sharing by leading community sessions and authoring technical blogs, helping to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Spring SecuritySpring BootJava