Nikhil Shinde
@nikhilshinde2
I build scalable distributed systems and AI-powered backend products.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
At PortOne, I've led a five-engineer team and built payment products, reconciliation systems, and AI-assisted developer tooling that contributed $500K+ in ARR. I designed an LLM-powered automation system that reduced manual reconciliation effort by 90% and an MCP server that cut merchant integration time by 40%.
Previously at Playpower Labs, I led backend development for a gamification platform serving 200K+ students and modernised a monolith into a GraphQL-based service supporting 100K+ daily active users. I build event-driven microservices, cloud infrastructure, and reliable systems that operate at scale.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer
PortOne Inc.
Mar 2021 - Present (5 years 5 months)
Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers, architected revenue-generating backend products, and built a reconciliation engine and LLM-powered agentic systems. Achieved ISO/PCI-DSS compliance and 99.95% uptime.
Led backend development of a gamification engine serving 200K+ students, implemented an adaptive learning algorithm, and modernized architecture with GraphQL BFF.
Software Development Engineering Intern
MAQ Software
Jan 2018 - May 2018 (4 months)
Built a data ingestion pipeline and Power BI dashboards for 1M+ customers, and optimized SQL procedures achieving 3x performance improvement.
Student Developer
Google Summer of Code
May 2017 - Aug 2017 (3 months)
Created annotated libraries reducing nullness errors by 80% in Apache Commons and integrated SonarQube to decrease code smells.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Institute of Technology, Nirma University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering
2014 - 2018
Grade: 7.8/10.0
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Nirma University, with a GPA of 7.8/10.0.
Creative Academy, Pune
Higher Secondary Certificate, General Studies
2012 - 2014
Grade: 80%
Higher Secondary Certificate from Maharashtra Board with a score of 80%.
Availability
Location
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Portfolio
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Skills
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