Sahil Nagpal

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

9+ years of backend engineering experience.
Expert in scalable system design and database optimization.
Proven track record in payment integration and API development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Fintech and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend ApisMicroservicesDatabase ManagementSystem DesignWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

NestJSNode.jsJavaMySQLNoSQLElasticsearchApache HiveAmazon S3C++QtMySQL performance and optimizationPayment integrationsJavaScriptHTMLBootstrap

About

👋 Hi! I'm a backend engineer at Stripe with 9+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems. My core strengths: - Scalable system design in Java - MySQL performance and optimization - Payment integrations (Stripe, Razorpay, etc.) - Backend APIs and microservices I’m currently open to freelance consulting with startups, early-stage founders, or companies looking to: - Build MVPs - Improve database performance - Integrate secure payments ⚡ Let's connect if you're building something ambitious or need an extra pair of experienced hands to move faster.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Stripe

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Stockx

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

NestJSNode.jsJavaBackend APIsMicroservices

Uber

Software Engineer II

Jul 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Data Platform & Infrastructure at Uber, Bangalore

Ofbusiness.com (ofb tech pvt ltd)

Software Developer

Aug 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

First engineer in the organization
Built the entire content management system from scratch
Gained knowledge about managing data (worked on both MySQL and NoSQL databases)
Used Elasticsearch extensively for real-time searching and aggregations

Bsb portal ltd.

Software Engineer Internship

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Part of the Engineering Team at BSB Portal Ltd.
Developed a responsive web application to query Apache Hive without worrying about the underlying complexity or using a command line.
The user could submit the query, get the real-time status of the submitted query, kill the job, view and download the report generated.
Used Amazon Simple Storage Service ( S3 ) for storing the reports generated which were deleted after a specified amount of time.

Kde

Google Summer of Code with Krita

Jun 2013 – Oct 2013 · 4 mos · India

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project with Krita ( raster graphic editor based on KDE platform written in C++ and Qt ).
Implemented various image based filter to enhance the image such as color balance filter, dodge and burn filter, Gaussian blur filter, color match, etc
Improved the existing filter module of Krita, by fixing the bugs in the filter module and optimizing them
Blog and link about the work done: http://goo.gl/KXucHD and http://goo.gl/oSMOA3

Indian red cross society (ircs)

Software Engineering Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Developed a web portal for the Disaster Management Unit of Indian Red Cross Society to manage the database for seven warehouses all over India.
The user could see the number of deployed and free units across any warehouse.
Search feature allowed the user to keep track of the units, instead of going through each and every file manually.