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Nikhil Pratap

@nikhilpratap1

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Software engineer building distributed systems, data pipelines, and LLM evaluation platforms at scale.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can build production distributed systems and scalable data/LLM workflows—owning reliability, observability, and CI/CD—while collaborating in Agile cycles to ship high-impact improvements.

I’m a Software Development Engineer focused on search infrastructure, LLM evaluation platforms, and microservices architecture, with production experience at the scale of 500M+ users. In my current role, I built an asynchronous Search Audit Logging pipeline (Spring Boot → Kafka → Spark/Flink → Hive/Databricks) to deliver P99 SLI/SLO observability across multiple microservices, and I engineered real-time role-based configuration for LLM chatbot UI updates via LaunchDarkly.

I also developed an LLM Evaluation and AI workflow automation engine that auto-diffs evaluation runs against AWS S3 baselines across 21 metrics, integrated into parallel GitHub Actions CI/CD and validated through unit tests. When issues hit production, I debugged distributed observability failures down to schema forensics, and I improved reliability with a three-tier Trending Search fallback that cut MTTR to under five minutes. Earlier, as a backend intern, I shipped RESTful APIs on Spring Boot and Node.js, built Kafka-based integrations, and improved performance using Redis caching, CI/CD automation, and AWS EKS deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Development Engineer

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JioHotstar

Oct 2025 - Present (9 months)

Built production search audit logging and LLM evaluation/automation workflows for the Search & AI Platform, improving observability and CI/CD reliability across multiple microservices. Engineered configuration dashboards, high-availability search fallbacks, and reduced infrastructure cost and alert noise.

Software Developer Backend Intern

Paytm

Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 (5 months)

Developed backend REST APIs for a bus-booking microservices platform, integrating event-driven services and improving caching and performance. Contributed to CI/CD automation and testing, supporting deployment and regression prevention.

Spring Boot REST APIs Microservices Event Driven Architecture Redis MySQL Junit Jest Mockito Jenkins Docker Kubernetes Grafana CI CD Unit Testing Agile Scrum

Leadership Coordinator

Prayaas Social Initiative, IIIT Allahabad

Oct 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 2 months)

Led initiatives supporting underprivileged children through tutoring, enrollment sponsorships, and community outreach programs.

Coordinator, Aparoksha '24

Aparoksha '24

Feb 2024 - May 2024 (3 months)

Coordinated and led logistics for hackathons and technical events, including sponsorships, workshops, and managing volunteers and participants.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Information Technology – Business Informatics

2021 - 2025

Pursued a B.Tech in Information Technology – Business Informatics with coursework in data structures & algorithms, distributed systems, database systems, machine learning, and system design. Studied parallel & distributed computing and applied topics including fintech foundations and image/video processing.