About

Arjun Dixit is a highly motivated and enthusiastic Lead Engineer at Nike with a demonstrated history of working in the modern web industry for approximately 7 years. He has experience in backend engineering, game programming, and team management. Arjun is a leader of a team of 10+ dynamic compeer, where he reviews code, prepares app architecture, decides tech stack, regularizes scrum, and manages business<>tech interactions. He has excellent knowledge of creating and scaling backend apps using Node.js (Express/Hapi/StrongLoop), Python (Django/Flask), GoLang (mux), and ROR. Arjun is also excellent in working on NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch. He has moved gigantic monolithic systems to evented microservices architecture and has good knowledge of Android and iOS SDK using Objective-C/C++, Swift, and Java. Arjun has created multiple games on Cocos2D-x, Cocos2D, Sprite-Kit, and Unity3D/2D. Currently, Arjun is working as a Lead Software Engineer at Nike. Previously, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer III at Nike, where he was part of a team that is spread across the globe, building and improving a platform that ensures and validates the readiness of new NIKE launches. Arjun adapted agile methodology concepts for high quality, delivery, and continuous improvement, planned and refined sprint tasks/stories based on priorities, helped product owners in refining new products/improvements to the platform, ensured high-quality products, continuously improved the platform performance, mentored new joiners to get on board quickly, helped team members wherever there is a need both functionally & non-functionally, monitored and supported the health of applications in the production, worked with the product owner to understand the requirements, sizing up the work early, coming up with MVP for features, and possible timeline goals. Before Nike, Arjun worked as a Principal, Engineering at Rebel Foods. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Panjab University in 2014 and his schooling from Cathedral Sr. Sec. School. Arjun has relevant experience of 9.11 years and has a tech stack that includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend, Javascript, NoSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, iOS, Microservices, Flask, Web, Objective-c.