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Nachiket Galande

Vancouver,BC

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Software Engineer

Freshbooks
04.2020 - Current

Project 1 - Shopify-FreshBooks Integration (React + Node)

  • Orchestrated a smooth integration of the Shopify Billing API into the FreshBooks app, leading the technical scoping and architectural design process
  • Developed the onboarding workflow in the backend, enabling users to purchase FreshBooks subscriptions in-app
  • Developed the verification user workflow, encompassing both front and backend components. This system utilized FreshBooks APIs to provision new users and streamline the email verification process

Project 2 - Developer Portal and Appstore Enhancement (Python + Flask)

Developer Portal

  • Led the technical scoping and design discussions for a new microservice for building new Developer Portal and Appstore features
  • Implemented the Create and Get by ID endpoints in the backend, added verification, business logic and adapters to build the end to end workflow of the app creation and retrieval process

Appstore

  • Developed a proxy layer that efficiently forwards API requests from the Appstore to the external CMS
  • Implemented a Redis adapter within the proxy layer, markedly improving load times for the Appstore and contributing to an enhanced user experience
  • Collaborated with the infrastructure team to successfully migrate AppStore code from the external cloud to a native cloud environment for better availability and reliability

Project 3 - Mileage Tracking API (Python + Flask)

  • Implemented a new feature for the Mileage Tracking API, empowering business owners to filter trips created by different team members
  • Conducted database migration and backfills to efficiently store trip creator information, insuring data integrity
  • Introduced pagination and additional filters to the GET trips API, improving usability and search capabilities for web and mobile clients

Sr Software Engineer

Punchh
05.2019 - 03.2020
  • Collaborated within a 4-member engineering team to develop an MVP focused on crafting customizable marketing campaigns
  • Developed the API Gateway, utilizing grpc-gateway to transcode REST to gRPC requests, jwt token verification and proxying the requests to the API
  • Developed the API supporting all CRUD operations with validation and business logic with data persistence in Cassandra
  • Played a key role in establishing the local development environment, leveraging docker-compose, CI/CD pipelines, and setup of end-to-end tests using Cucumber

Software Engineer

Bluecat Networks
08.2018 - 05.2019
  • Implemented an API first feature in an event driven architecture to provision virtual machines for internal testing. It enabled restoring the virtual machine to the desired state
  • The API triggered long running async jobs to perform the tasks using Kafka and MongoDB for state management

Software Engineer

AT&T
08.2014 - 08.2018
  • Migrated and refactored legacy monolith ETL jobs from Perl to Java for ATTs ecommerce platform. Applies business logic and validation for the clickstream data
  • The migration led to a 3x increase in throughput with better resiliency and fault tolerance
  • Added metrics around throughput, timings and others for better visibility and future load planning capacity

Education

Master of Science - Operations Research

Northeastern University
Boston,MA
12.2013

Skills

    Python

    Java

    Go

    JavaScript

Achievements

  • Integrating Shopify Billing API into FreshBooks app - Led to a 50% increase of new user installs within the first few months
  • Enhanced Developer Portal for 3rd party devs - Automated process to publish apps on FreshBooks Appstore
  • Launch improved Appstore - Enabled FreshBooks customers to efficiently integrate 3rd party apps needed to improve their workflows

Timeline

Sr Software Engineer

Freshbooks
04.2020 - Current

Sr Software Engineer

Punchh
05.2019 - 03.2020

Software Engineer

Bluecat Networks
08.2018 - 05.2019

Software Engineer

AT&T
08.2014 - 08.2018

Master of Science - Operations Research

Northeastern University
Nachiket Galande