Nitish Bahl

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led engineering for a $100M+ ARR talent platform.
Developed real-time fraud detection systems at PayPal.
Passionate about clean architecture and user experiences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Full-Stack Engineer with expertise in AI and system design.

Contact

2007n75@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software DesignPython (programming Language)JavaSpring BootJavascript

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Artificial Intelligence (AI)BootstrapC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer ScienceComputer VisionData AnalysisData AnalyticsData ScienceData StructuresDatabases

About

I’m a full-stack engineer experienced in designing and scaling large-scale platforms across AI, fintech, and enterprise systems. At Eightfold, I led engineering initiatives that improved performance and reliability for a $100M+ ARR talent platform. I also work on AI-agent architectures, including retrieval-augmented pipelines, JSON-RPC based MCP servers, and autonomous workflow orchestration. Previously at PayPal, I built real-time fraud detection systems using Java, Spring Boot, and React. Passionate about clean architecture, seamless user experiences, and driving end-to-end product development.

Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs

Current Experience

Eightfold

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Led end-to-end engineering for a $100M+ ARR Talent Acquisition platform, driving high-scale, low-latency system design while accelerating feature delivery through tight collaboration with Product and GTM teams. Shipped impactful capabilities across Python and React/TypeScript services with a strong focus on reliability, customer ROI, and data-driven iteration. Improved support ticket SLA by 90%, strengthening enterprise trust, retention, and expansion potential.

Software DesignPython (Programming Language)React.jsArtificial Intelligence (AI)LangChain

Paypal

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Feb 2023 – Jun 2023 · 4 mos

Worked in Global Fraud Risk team to develop Risk platforms, systems & dashboards to prevent fraud & mitigate risk by both consumers & merchants across PayPal platform & its subsidiaries - Venmo, Braintree, Zettle.

JavaSpring BootApplication Programming Interfaces (API)AlgorithmsJavaScript

Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Developing & modernising platforms using React, Node & Java (Spring Boot) to deploy & scale ML models as APIs.
Was awarded PPO based on stellar internship performance.

NoSQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Node.jsJavaSpring BootSQL

Jio

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos

Delivered a proof of concept to achieve Digital Signature functionality in Android & Java using simulated Public Key Infrastructure SIM environment with Python-based backend CA infrastructure. Developed scalable & modular Java & Python libraries/modules to be used in future work.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Front-end Development

Samsung electronics

Summer Intern - Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos

1. Analysed and compared different algorithms that can be used to link devices, identify users, households & communities by developing a Device Graph. Used in Ad targeting & identifying users across devices without signing in.
2. Implemented an algorithm in PySpark and Python to build device graph based on IP, Device ID (Google ID or Apple ID) and timestamp, capable of handling more than 50000 data points from a million devices per second.

Google summer of code

Web Developer at Joomla!

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

1. Developed a Page Builder application (website generator) with a Drag and Drop GUI for adding and resizing components, modules, grids and containers in leading open source CMS Joomla! Org using Javascript and its frameworks (particularly VueJS) & PHP.
2. Added a feature to integrate Bootstrap and create a responsive web layout by emulating different screen resolutions.
3. Centralized state management and mutations(functions) using Vuex to efficiently track changes.
4. Linked the project with Joomla Plugins through which 3rd party developers can extend and customise core functionality.
5. Configure modules (login form, navbar, banners) directly from the application
Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open-source organization on a 3-month programming project.

Node.js

Indira gandhi centre for atomic research (igcar), kalpakkam

Web Developer

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu

1. Developed and deployed a web portal on Linux Mail Server to automate E-Mail account management services like password changing, creation and deletion of accounts, password expiry information, server monitoring for load balancing.
2. Connected the SQL database to secure Mail Server using TELNET protocol.
3. Added feature to process and extract data from queries using AWK.
Skills- Javascript, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, AWK, Linux, Basic Networking(TELNET).