About

Chirag Mittal is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 3 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently employed at nurture.farm, where he is responsible for building technology for the farming ecosystem. Prior to this, he has gained valuable internship experience at two top product-based start-ups, Shipsy and Bounce. Chirag has an impressive track record, having represented his college at ACM-ICPC India Regionals and being rated as a 5-star programmer at Codechef. He possesses a diverse skill set, having worked with a variety of technologies including C++, JAVA, SQL, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka Queues, Grafana, Prometheus, and AWS. At nurture.farm, Chirag has worked on a variety of projects, including building an Offers Engine to reward consumers across platforms based on their actions, working on the Laminar project to make it open source, and mentoring new joiners and interns in the team. He has also been a part of the nurture.retail team, where he built multiple scalable microservices and features from scratch, scaled the total GMV through the retail app, and optimized existing APIs, Cron jobs, and DB calls to reduce server downtime. Additionally, he has contributed to code/design reviews, product JAMs, and collaborated with the Product team, App team, SAP team, and QA team to enable better communication and remove friction in the process. Chirag has also worked with the nurture.engage Workplace team, where he took initiatives and brainstormed on how to make the workplace better for everyone. He has contributed to Pulse, the internal newsletter at nurture, as a content sourcer for the newsletter. During his internship at Bounce, Chirag handled the BackEnd for AutoKYC Service that verifies the two-wheeler Driving License of the customer. He redesigned a new database for KYC Revamp that eliminated existing data loss, enabled vertical scalability and Data Analytics. He also optimized and implemented new code patterns that reduced the Customer wait time from ~60 min to ~4 min, collaborated with the Product and Analytics team to identify and restrict Fraud users, and implemented and enhanced the checks to validate the DL, thus increasing the system accuracy from 40% to 71%. Chirag holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow (IIIT). He possesses a wide range of technical skills, including Software Engineering, AWS,