nikhil shinde
@nikhilshinde3
Lead Engineer at Persistent Systems on Mastercard’s Event Gateway, migrating transaction infrastructure to AWS.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
At Persistent Systems, I was Lead Engineer on Mastercard’s Event Gateway, the gRPC streaming entry point to its next-generation transaction platform. I led an AWS migration for one production region, building the EC2 setup end to end.
I also shaped resiliency designs with principal and distinguished architects, including availability-zone isolation and a gossip-based peer relay. I contributed to benchmarking a Java-to-Go routing-service rewrite that delivered 4× per-node throughput.
At CommerceIQ, I led a team of seven engineers working on Market Share, an e-commerce analytics product. I reduced Snowflake compute costs by about 45% and cut client onboarding from 30 days to 10 with a self-serve workflow.
At Swapcard, I designed an event-driven recommendation and search platform using Kafka and Elasticsearch, contributing to about 40% higher user engagement. I also build LLM projects, including a document chat with page-cited answers and a tool-calling agent.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead engineer for Mastercard's Event Gateway, processing ~8M transactions/day and peaking at ~1,900 TPS. Led AWS migration, resiliency architecture, and performance engineering for the gRPC streaming platform.
Led a team of 7 engineers owning Market Share, an e-commerce analytics product for 80+ brands. Architected a multilingual translation stage, reduced Snowflake compute cost by ~45%, and cut client onboarding from 30 days to 10.
Designed an event-driven recommendation and search platform using Kafka and Elasticsearch, contributing to ~40% higher user engagement. Built core services from scratch including GraphQL API, gRPC communication, and Stripe payments.
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Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
2010 - 2014
Pursued a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, graduating in 2014.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
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