Nikunj Badjatya

Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of software development experience.
Expertise in cloud cost efficiency and scalability engineering.
Proficient in building microservices and complex data pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong cloud engineering and microservices capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ServicesIdentity And Access Management (iam)High Availability

Other Skills

PythonDjangoRedisOpenID ConnectMySQLJavaAgile methodologiesDebuggingFault toleranceSoftware designCode reviewSoftware qualityGo (Programming Language)Data StructuresAlgorithms

About

* Building products and features from ground up. * NIT Trichy grad, I possess more than 10 years of varied and rich professional software development experience. * Currently working on a Cloud cost efficiency product @Harness. * Scalability and performance engineering in Cloud SaaS solutions. * Experience in building Microservices and APIs. * Experience in building complex data pipelines. * Experience working with AWS, GCP and Azure, lift and shift of the product from data center to AWS, and with blue-green deployments. * Experience with active-active model * Experience with Identity and Access Management. * Love hackathons

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Harness

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Staff Software Engineer II

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs

Fireeye, inc.

2 roles

Staff Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2017 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Senior Software Development Engineer

Apr 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Member of CloudBU team at Bangalore. Developing backend for Fireeye's Email Threat Prevention over cloud service.
I am also a member of Fireeye SportsClub.
Key Learnings:
Building a Secure, Fault tolerant, Highly available, Performant and Large volume web app. Daily drivers include - Python (and Django), Redis, Identity and Access Management (IAM), OpenID Connect, MySQL.

PythonDjangoRedisIdentity and Access Management (IAM)OpenID ConnectMySQL+1

Emc

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I was a member of VPLEX/VE engineering team at EMC. VPLEX/VE is a storage virtualization product, which is delivered as a linux based virtual machine targeted to run on VMware ESXi hypervisors. It brings the benefit of both public and private cloud for enterprises.
Worked on three end to end product releases including 1.0 concept-to-market release.
Worked on and/or owned development of critical areas as high availability, non disruptive product upgrade, expansion, deployment, configuration and platform in Python and Java language. This also include owning corresponding repositories/modules and their code reviews.
I was also a member of BestPlaceToWork team at EMC. As part of this, organized several recreational and team building activities at BU level.
Key Learnings:
Agile methodologies, High availability, Debugging, Fault tolerance, Software design, Code review, Software quality, Cloud terminologies, User experience, End to end product life cycle etc.

PythonJavaAgile methodologiesHigh availabilityDebuggingFault tolerance+5

Software Engineer

Sep 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Sony

Software Engineer

Jul 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

I was a member of Embedded Linux Team at SISC. Worked on development and maintenance of Sony System C Library (SSlibc ,part of SONY CE Linux ) which is used in various Sony products.
Tools development:
I developed numerous tools based in Python. Tool to analyze SSlibc test execution results (3 variants), Tool to analyze NetBSD code commit mails etc.
Vulnerability analysis of SSlibc:
Analyze SSlibc for any programming defect like Buffer Overflow, Memory Leak etc. which are the major causes of breach in system security.
Key Learnings:
Systems programming, Debugging, Software design, Code review, Software quality, Security vulnerability, User experience etc.