Nihal Sharma

VP of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led development of a loan origination system, reducing processing time by 70%.
  • Built a real-time tracking system for logistics, enhancing decision-making.
  • Mentored and led teams of engineers, fostering collaboration and growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Logistics Software Engineer with strong architectural and team leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Architectural DesignPythonPeople ManagementMicroservices

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCC++CachingCode ReviewCore JavaDatabasesDevOpsDjangoDockerEclipseElasticSearchEngineering ManagementGit

About

An experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Ecommerce industry including logistics and supply chain industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Python, AWS & DevOps, Databases, Caching and Optimization. I have good experience in designing and architecture of systems from scratch, scaling existing systems, driving teams towards high-quality development and mentoring other engineers.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Capri global capital ltd.

Associate Vice President - Engineering

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Transforming a traditional NBFC (Lending organization) to a leading, fast-paced FinTech
  • Spearheading the development of an in-house loan origination system, slashing loan processing time by 70% from an average 20 days to as quick as 6-9 days
  • Architected and scaled system for high-availability and low latency to process thousands of applications, further helping business scale
  • Leading a team of 20+ engineers, fostering collaboration, and addressing business challenges through f ield insights
  • Drive the execution and delivery by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, stakeholders, architects, product owners, and engineers
  • Moved multiple 3rd party systems to in-house development to drive higher efficiency and cost savings
Architectural DesignPythonApache Kafka

Nimbbl

Director Of Engineering

Mar 2022Feb 2023 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • ⋆ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product launch strategies and building the road map for new features and improvements.
  • ⋆ Analysing business and technical requirements to determine system design, potential issues and related cost for each project request.
  • ⋆ Building tech architecture and integrating different platforms and codebase
  • ⋆ Assessing code written by developers, mentoring and assisting in training more junior developers.
  • ⋆ Monitoring the DevOps activities, server enhancements and infra cost
  • ⋆ Building strong teams through selective recruitment and post-hire mentorship of junior engineers.
NoSQLPython (Programming Language)Architectural DesignCode ReviewAmazon Web Services (AWS)Product Planning+1

Zast logisolutions

Engineering Manager

Jan 2018Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • ✶ Built and leading a tech team of ~15 members.
  • ✶ Taking care of development/deployment of internal web app, client dashboards and mobile apps.
  • ✶ Designed and built Real time tracking system which tracked ~500 trucks. Business decisions/planning were made using delay predictions, data analytics, driver/vendor ratings.
  • ✶ Building the system to scale for handling large data (vehicle tracking data and running analytics on it)
  • ✶ Working closely with the ops, finance and external parties to gather requirement and build products.
NoSQLPeople ManagementScalabilityArchitectural DesignCode ReviewMicroservices+3

Nuvoex

2 roles

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017Nov 2017 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • ✶ Led the reverse logistics platform (company's mainstay business) and worked on refinement of the product - making it more scalable and robust. Cleanup of unnecessary code, making APIs faster, better monitoring and logging, fault-tolerant servers etc.
  • ✶ Reducing the server costs by better server management.
  • ✶ Business interactions for understanding the requirements and defining the initial architecture and framework of the application.
  • ✶ Worked with other team members in coding, testing and ensuring a high-quality product goes to production and with a better turnaround time.
Architectural DesignCode ReviewProduct Planning

Senior Software Developer

Aug 2016Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

1mg (previously healthkartplus)

Senior Software Engineer

May 2015Feb 2016 · 9 mos · Gurgoan

  • ✶ Worked for initial couple of months as a Java developer handling the tech stack which had Spring, Hibernate in place.
  • ✶ SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) rewrite - We rewrote the whole code base in multiple services, decoupling the code base and the business entities and the database. The services interacted with each other via TCP api calls - a framework written by our then CTO. The programming language chosen was Python and the database we used was Postgres. We used Redis(pub/sub) for inter services notifications.
  • → Handled the services which comprised of the core business features revolving around order processing, maintaining its different life cycles - customer care, packaging, shipping, delivery, returns etc.
  • → Wrote the Digitization (manual, of the prescriptions) piece where the data was collected by our inhouse digitzers and then verified against the items in the actual order placed.
Microservices

Targetingmantra

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2014Feb 2015 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • TargetingMantra provides a personalization platform for online businesses and helps increase ROI by delivering more relevant customer experience. We provide SAAS solutions to our clients (which are basically e-commerce sites).
  • As a Java backend engineer, my role is around writing scalable web services which cater the needs of clients. As the number of users increase, the data to deal with increases very fast. So, there is a key demand of building a scalable and robust systems which is highly automated and gives real time results.

Healthkart.com

Software Engineer II

Jan 2013Jun 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Summary: Healthkart.com is the leading online healthcare portal from where the consumers buy health care products. The investors are among one of the biggest VCs in the world including the giant Sequoia Capitals.

Sapient

Associate Technology L1

Jul 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Current-
  • I have worked on different Java platforms including - Core Java, JEE, JMS, Spring, Hibernate, JPA. I am comfortable enough to work on any JAVA based platform. In my 1yr+ tenure I also worked on different projects and basically all consisted of knowledge of OOPS.
  • Past -
  • Had learned basics and advance features of .Net platform and on Finance Domain as well. Got an overview of WPF, WCF, Silverlight and Prism.
  • In the Financial side I got to learn about how the trade in the financial world is carried out and about the other basics as - Financial Instruments, Energy Trade, Market etc.
  • Apart from this I had a chance of working as an iOS-5 Application Developer. This was for a short term and basically was related to development of iPad apps.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

BE — Information Technology

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Delhi Public School,Bokaro Steel City

12th

Jan 2004Jan 2006

D.A.V. Public School, Motihari

10th

Jan 1997Jan 2004

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