Nishanth Shanmugham

Senior Software Engineer

10 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Go and backend development.
Proven track record in building scalable applications.
Strong mentorship experience in engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Developer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

GoBackend DevelopmentPythonData EngineeringTypescriptFrontend DevelopmentJavascript

Other Skills

PostgreSQLKafkaApp EngineBigQuerygRPCReactGitHTML5CSSJavaEmbedded SystemsTeamworkARM assembly

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Littleroot

5 roles

Membrane

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Definitive SMS messages filter for iOS - precise, privacy-preserving, entirely on-device, with optional automatic filtering using machine learning. https://littleroot.org/membrane

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Algebraic

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

State of the art, native file encryption app for macOS - based on strong, modern cryptography. https://littleroot.org/algebraic

Independent Contractor, Juni Technology AB

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo

Juni provides financial technology for ecommerce. Designed and built financial transactions notification infrastructure (Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka) handling 385,000+ messages daily. Improved Kafka reliability with consumer group-specific message retries and dead-letter queues. Numerous improvements to backend testing practices, such as Go testing packages providing temporary PostgreSQL databases for integration tests, in local dev and CI, with near-zero configuration.
https://juni.co

GoPostgreSQLKafkaBackend Development

Independent Contractor, Sportskeeda

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo

Sportskeeda is a popular sports journalism organization. I wrote engineering designs for their analytics-based audience targeting infra, and built a Python-based App Engine service for periodic internal syncs of Ad Manager data to BigQuery. Other notable work: a reverse-engineered Google Analytics version 4 implementation for AMP websites, prior to its official support.
https://sportskeeda.com

PythonApp EngineBigQueryData Engineering

Fullstory

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I built and maintained business-critical, backend Go gRPC services for time series data persistence & analysis, search querying, and outgoing transactional emails. Other notable work: Per-request-configurable query caching to reduce Solr workloads and improve app first-render times, p95: 3s → 300ms. Mentored a 3-engineer team to launch a type-safe frontend search data model and UI in TypeScript and React, extensively tested for backwards compatibility.

GogRPCTypeScriptReactBackend Development

Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I built a handful of user-facing product features end-to-end from ideas to successful launches, largely in TypeScript and Go: trendline alerts, thumb feedback, searchies (D3 data visualizations), playback sharing, and guest accounts. Also: Go packages for type-safe Solr query formulation and app-specific query optimization; improvements to org-wide debuggability and development of search services.
https://fullstory.com

TypeScriptGoFrontend Development

Cloudflare

Systems Engineer Intern

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Cloudflare's initial implementation of Accelerated Media Pages, or AMP. I maintained a performance-sensitive Go AMP HTML parser, and a validator, in compliance with AMP and W3C specifications.

GoBackend Development

Google

Software Engineer Intern

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Chromium build and test infrastructure. See talk slides for details. I ported Chromium's flakiness and test results server from Python to Go. HTTP response times 2.6x faster, better availability, lower error rates, and happier Chromium developers. =)

GoPythonBackend Development