Nikhil Goyal

I’m a Software Development Engineer focused on building reliable backend systems and data pipelines. At TestMu AI, I develop features and fix bugs in SmartUI-CLI, a modular TypeScript CLI that uses Playwright for multi-browser automation.

I’ve driven major architecture improvements, including migrating a rendering service from an API-based setup to a highly-available, event-driven Kafka architecture. By implementing KEDA-driven autoscaling on Kafka queue metrics, I delivered a 60% execution-speed improvement and reduced annual infrastructure costs.

Before that, at DEVO, I designed enterprise-grade data collectors and maintained the core collector SDK used across implementations. I also built RESTful APIs for collector server management (with Kubernetes handled internally), created an autonomous service to recover OOM-killed collector pods, and led CI/CD pipeline development to streamline deployments.

Earlier roles strengthened my product and platform instincts: at CRED, I built services for campaign orchestration and time-limited communications, enhanced A/B testing with automated conclusions and metrics integration, and developed AWS Lambda functions for reporting and alerting. I enjoy tackling hard distributed-systems problems with automation, clear APIs, and performance as non-negotiables.