About

Ajinkya Nimbalkar is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Google with over 6 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Sr. Software Engineer (L5 Tech Lead) at Google's enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics, Looker. His primary focus is to amplify the reach of Looker to meet users' needs and bring insights and data to them in ways that can make them more productive. Before joining Looker, Ajinkya worked as a Software Engineer at Google, where he built impactful features on Google Search that contributed significantly to query growth and Ads revenue. He also worked as a Software Engineer on high-performant micro-services built on top of Node.js using Javascript/Typescript to provide access control for serving metadata that enables smooth video-streaming. He has hands-on experience with deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Cloud Platform. He also built deployment workflows and automation pipelines using tools such as Spinnaker, Google Cloud Build, and scripts written to support other custom requirements. He has set up reliable white-box/black-box monitoring and alerting through tools such as Prometheus and Stackdriver and is experienced with using application testing frameworks such as Mocha and Chai. Ajinkya has a Master's Degree in Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology. He has a strong technical background and is skilled in Search, Javascript, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, and Microservices. With his vast experience and expertise, Ajinkya is an asset to any organization he works with. He is a dedicated and hardworking individual who is always eager to learn and grow in his career.