Nischal Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in backend services and big data management.
  • Proven track record in microservices and cloud architectures.
  • Passionate about open-source contributions and innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Data Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesSecurityDatabase ManagementBack-end Web DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentData ProcessingBackend DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentErp SystemsSystem Design

Other Skills

Apache FlinkApache TinkerpopApache JanusGraphNeo4jApache PulsarCustom DSLMachine LearningGraph DatabasesSpringHibernateJunit4BambooPostgresELKCassandra

About

With extensive experience in authoring and managing various backend services and handling big data at scale across multiple industries, my professional interests include design patterns, distributed systems, and data pipelining. I am passionate about contributing to open-source projects and continuously seek opportunities to innovate and optimize in the tech landscape.

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
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Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Uber

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Nutanix

Member Of Technical Staff 4

Jan 2019Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Authored/Maintenance of microservices to flag security vulnerabilities via rules(custom DSL)/ml on customer's multi-cloud(Nutanix/AWS/Azure) infrastructure states for the entire Nutanix cloud and aws/gcp customers.
  • Authored compiler/query execution engine (micro-service) of a new SQLish Custom Query Language over Tinkerpop/Cypher supported Graph Dbs along with the support of a very intelligent auto-complete support that supported query over 500GB data.
  • Leading the team, Mentoring peers, tech talks, code reviews.
  • Technologies used: Apache Flink, Apache Tinkerpop, Apache JanusGraph, Neo4j, Apache Pulsar
Apache FlinkApache TinkerpopApache JanusGraphNeo4jApache PulsarDistributed Systems+1

Directi web technology pvt. ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Migrated existing 1.4k HTTP API's based on STRUTS 1 to Jersey along with defining a framework to expose REST full HTTP APIs.
  • Migrated 30+ stale vulnerable dependencies to the latest version for PCI compliance.
  • Integrated Spring DI and Hibernate into the existing monolith architecture powering BigRock and other domain registration services, enabling component-based decomposition and scaling to handle 1k qps.
  • Perf/Unit Testing, CI-CD Pipeline setup for overhauled services.
  • Tech Talks, CodeReview, Mentoring on new Joiners.
  • Technologies Used: Spring, Hibernate, Junit4, Bamboo, Postgres, ELK, Cassandra
SpringHibernateJunit4BambooPostgresELK+3

Flipkart.com

2 roles

SDE-I

Jul 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Authored Cluster Aware Rule Engine microservice to override properties of products of Flipkart which served at Big Billion Scale.
  • Developed orchestrator to process at a scale of 10k feed files/daily to create and manage product listings for sellers.
  • Authoring/Maintenance of microservices in dropwizard & spring-boot framework.
  • Monitoring/perf of microservices.
  • Technologies used: Apache Camel, Spring, Hbase, ElasticSearch, Drools, Mysql, Redis, Graphana
Apache CamelSpringHbaseElasticSearchDroolsMysql+4

Internship

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • I was responsible for authoring RESTfull modules using spring-boot framework. The role included deployment/oncalling of the all the services of team.

Wizork

Co Founder

Jun 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

  • I was responsible for developing the whole education based ERP. I was solely responsible for high level design of entire erp as well for low level design. I take particular pride in developing a notification system where context based notification could be raised.
  • The version 0 was developed using codeIgnitor framework of PHP [ lamp stack ]. The version 1 was based on spring boot [ backend ] and custom template baed javascript library which later turned out to b e similar to handlebar.js
PHPCodeIgniterSpring BootJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentERP Systems

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Mount Assisi School

I.C.S.E — Class Xth Board

Jan 2002Jan 2008

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