Nikhil Limaje

Senior Software Engineer

Netherlands13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8+ years in backend and full-stack engineering.
Delivered features impacting over 100M Android devices annually.
Expertise in scaling distributed systems and databases.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in B2C and SaaS environments.

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ElasticsearchDatabase ModelingAndroidAndroid DevelopmentAndroid StudioPython (Programming Language)StorageContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)MapReduceSoftware DesignProgrammingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Problem SolvingScrumGit

About

Backend/full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems and databases. In Google, working on Shopping ecosystems responsible to deliver features for marketplace sellers as well as scaling infrastructure systems to accommodate for the growth of millions of sellers. Prior to Shopping, I was working with Google App Android team in India and delivered features for Google and GoogleGo Android App. Impact - Over 100M android devices/year having the new app were launched. The goal was to increase Google App's DAU (Daily Active User) which was successfully accomplished. Flipkart experience required working on Fraud Detection System, which helps in identifying whether a particular transaction or order is a fraudulent or not, helping in decreasing the fraud cases. Also, building personalisation engine aimed to decrease RTO cost incurred. Involves Machine Learning algorithms and working on Big Data - HBase, Apache Phoenix over HBase, Map Reduce, Storm, Kafka, etc.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Reddit, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Delivery of shopping ads across all Reddit platforms.

Google

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · On-site

Shopping @Google - Working on delivering seller features critical to ensure smooth functioning of the account management for marketplaces. Working as a backend engineer responsible to maintain & scale the infrastructure systems (including distributed databases).

Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · On-site

Search @Google. Delivering features in Google Android app to increase the Daily Active Users (DAUs). This also unblocked the launch of low RAM android devices (Reliance JIO) in India and over 100M devices/year were launched. Worked extensively on Android technology (java).

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer II

Mar 2016 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Part of the transact team (orders path) responsible to decrease potential fraud cases that might happen while placing the order on Flipkart. Working as a backend engineer and responsible to scale the systems (applications) to serve 100K qps traffic and key-value datastore like Aerospike. Also, extensively worked on Kafka, HBase and MapReduce.