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Nitin Misra

Nitin Misra

Software Engineer
Bangkok,Bkk

Summary

Accomplished Software Engineer with a proven track record at Gojek, enhancing ads revenue by 20% through innovative features and scalable solutions. Expert in backend development and system design, with a passion for mentoring junior developers. Skilled in Elixir/Phoenix, Golang, RDBMS/NoSQL, Caching, Message Queues, CI/CD, Unit Testing

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Backend Engineer

Honest Technologies
Bangkok, Bangkok
10.2023 - Current
  • Working on user acquisition team that's responsible for building app features to enable users apply for honest card
  • Collaborated with other cross-functional teams to build complex features with multiple touch points across different teams
  • Collaborated with team members to build referral feature through which users of honest card can referrer their friends and earn rewards
  • Helped team to reduce production incidents by adding robust metrics & alerts
  • Technologies used: Golang, MySQL, Kafka, Github, Kubernetes, GCP

Lead Software Engineer

Gojek
12.2020 - 10.2023
  • Building internal ads-platform for GoJek which enables merchants to advertise their brands on various GoJek products like GoFood/GoRide, etc.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to scale adoption of ads on Gofood search placement and be able to handle additional traffic (12k rpm) with low latency. This helped increase total ads revenue by 20%.
  • Fixed demand issues by introducing fungibility feature that allowed us to use demand interchangeably between different ad inventories. This helped us increase ads revenue on inventories with low demand.
  • Helped team to split codebase into independent components/services to reduce coupling between systems and improve engineering velocity.
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering talent development and growth within the company.
  • Technologies used: Elixir/Phoenix, Golang, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, Gitlab, Kubernetes, GCP

Lead Software Engineer

Scripbox.com India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2017 - 12.2020
  • Worked on in-house communications platform used to send marketing and transactional communications across the organization, built from scratch. The communications platform became the single tool of choice and helped remove the need for multiple third-party tools used before.
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering talent development and growth within the company.
  • Technologies used - Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Gitlab, AWS
  • Open-source contributions:

1. flume (https://github.com/scripbox/flume)

2. firebase_admin_ex (https://github.com/scripbox/firebase-admin-ex)

3. txt_local_ex (https://github.com/scripbox/txt_local_ex)

Senior Software Engineer

Mobmerry Technologies
02.2015 - 02.2017
  • Worked on backend APIs of core product from scratch
  • Worked on admin application from scratch
  • Worked on analytics platform from scratch
  • Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS

Software Engineer

CastleRock Research Information India
03.2014 - 02.2015
  • Worked on the core product's backend application/APIs
  • Technologies used - Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Heroku

Software Engineer

R Systems International Limited
06.2013 - 03.2014
  • Worked on a project for the client NSN (Nokia Solutions Network)
  • Technologies used - Ruby, Sinatra, Linux

Software Engineer

Eos Software Systems Pvt Ltd
08.2011 - 03.2013
  • Started my career with this organisation and worked on several client projects
  • Technologies used - Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Linux

Education

Masters in Computer Applications - Information Technology

Anand Engineering College
Agra, Uttar Pradesh (India)
07.2008 - 07.2011

Skills

Backend Development

Accomplishments

    Presented a talk @ Functional Conf 2018 (https://bit.ly/2P9YWwn)

Languages

English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Advanced
C1

Hobbies

  • Running/Cycling
  • Watching web series/movies
  • Meditation

Timeline

Senior Backend Engineer

Honest Technologies
10.2023 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Gojek
12.2020 - 10.2023

Lead Software Engineer

Scripbox.com India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2017 - 12.2020

Senior Software Engineer

Mobmerry Technologies
02.2015 - 02.2017

Software Engineer

CastleRock Research Information India
03.2014 - 02.2015

Software Engineer

R Systems International Limited
06.2013 - 03.2014

Software Engineer

Eos Software Systems Pvt Ltd
08.2011 - 03.2013

Masters in Computer Applications - Information Technology

Anand Engineering College
07.2008 - 07.2011
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