Nilesh Kevlani
Software Engineer
link-icon Bangalore, India
SKILLS
  1. system-design score
  2. backend score
  3. golang score
  4. java score
  5. scala score
  6. bash score
  7. linux score
  8. protobuf score
  9. kafka score
  10. spark score
  11. gcp score
  12. databricks score
  13. github-actions score
  14. jenkins score
  15. docker score
  16. kubernetes score
WORK EXPERIENCE
  1. ShareChat
    Software Development Engineer - 3
    link-icon March 2024 - Present
    Software Development Engineer - 2
    link-icon September 2021 - March 2024
    • Played primary role in data-platform’s protobuf journey.
      • Mentored and lead 5 engineers for the different projects related to protobuf adoption.
      • Ideated and developed tooling for migrating and validating data from JSON to protobuf.
      • Ideated and platformized systems for handling protobuf data. One of the big technical achievement in this was, systems were able to handle new protobuf contracts without any deployments.
      • Coordinated with 10+ other teams for migrating their use cases from JSON to protobuf.
    • Ideated and implemented multiple solutions for moving flows from GitHub+PRs to UI, which greately improved user experience and efficiency for data-platform users.
    • Played important role in rewamping data-platform services which included rewriting services in more efficient languages, replacing costlier components with cost-efficient components and architectural changes.
  2. Razorpay
    Software Development Engineer
    link-icon June 2020 - September 2021
    • Worked on systems in Transaction Risk Team serving end-customer, merchants, ops team & other backend systems.
      • Integrated external vendor (MaxMind) APIs for fraud detection.
      • Worked on APIs which power UI which is used by customer to raise disputes for transactions.
    • Improved observability of the services by integrating jaeger tracing.
  3. TalentXO (Formally CrewKarma)
    Software Engineer
    link-icon September 2018 - June 2020
    • Worked on entire backend system for the org.
    • Developed Recommendation Engine that matches Jobs with Candidate and vice versa.
    • Developed Email Scheduler.
    • Integrated Payment Gateway to Monetize the Platform.
EDUCATION
  1. BE Computer Engineering BVM Engineering College link-icon Anand
    8.27 CGPA   link-icon 2014 - 2018
  2. HSE BM Commerse High School link-icon Bhavnagar
    84.66 %   link-icon 2012 - 2014
  3. SSC Vishudhanand Vidya Mandir link-icon Bhavnagar
    85.66 %   link-icon 2010 - 2012
OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS
LANGUAGES
  1. English score
  2. Hindi score
  3. Gujarati score
  4. Sindhi score
INTERESTS
  1. Travelling
  2. Badminton
  3. Swimming
  4. Listening to Music