Nikhil Paratkar
MB
Summary
Experienced Senior Developer with 8+ years of expertise in Java, .NET, and MERN stack development. Demonstrated leadership skills in system architecture, team guidance, and process improvement. Skilled in leveraging technology to drive business success and deliver high-quality results.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist, Software Engineering
Travelers Insurance (client) | LTIMindtree
10.2019 - Current
- Architected and developed scalable, high-reliability web applications for Business Insurance products, improving performance and and delivering value to insurance customers
- Designed Neo4j graph database schemas that enable storage and processing of unstructured and highly connected data
- Led a team of developers towards low-code/no-code solutions using AWS lambdas (serverless) and step functions, reducing server hosting costs by up to 80%
- Ensured software security by conducting thorough vulnerability assessments and implementing best practices in secure coding techniques with the help of BlackDuck, Snyk, SonarQube and Trufflehog.
Software Engineer (OPT)
Apple Inc (client) | LTIMindtree
11.2018 - 10.2019
- Developed Java REST APIs in low latency and high performance applications for Apple Product Engineering's Radar project.
- Designed high-availability architectures using Apache Solr and Zookeeper to improve web service uptime and reliability
- Led GDPR compliance efforts in carefully updating, scrubbing and maintaining Apple's sensitive business data
Student Assistant Programmer
San Francisco State University
06.2017 - 08.2018
- Worked on a research project aimed at reducing search cost of text search engines
- Developed a solution utilizing various topic modeling libraries in Java, C++ and Python
- Developed applications for the university’s payroll, HR, Course Scheduling and Operations processes using C# and PHP
Software Engineer
Persistent Systems
11.2014 - 07.2016
- Implemented REST APIs for seamless integration between applications, improving overall system efficiency.
- Assisted in designing database schema and writing stored procedures for efficient data manipulation using SQL Server.
Project Intern
Persistent Systems
08.2013 - 05.2014
- Gained hands-on experience with Company's software development practices.
- Developed modular code in C# for company's document generation application, used in their Immigration System Project.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Pune
Pune, India05-2014
Master of Science - Computer Science
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, USA11-2018
Skills
- Java, C# NET Core, MERN stack(MongoDB, React, NodeJs), Python
- REST APIs, Microservices, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions
- Distributed Systems, System Design, AWS EKS, OCP, Github Actions, Gitlab CI/CD
- Neo4j GraphDB, MongoDB, CassandraDB, SQL, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana
- Scaled Agile Framework
Timeline
Specialist, Software Engineering
Travelers Insurance (client) | LTIMindtree
10.2019 - Current
Software Engineer (OPT)
Apple Inc (client) | LTIMindtree
11.2018 - 10.2019
Student Assistant Programmer
San Francisco State University
06.2017 - 08.2018
Software Engineer
Persistent Systems
11.2014 - 07.2016
Project Intern
Persistent Systems
08.2013 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Pune
Master of Science - Computer Science
San Francisco State University
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