About

Geetish Nayak is a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience in the industry. Currently working as a Sr Staff Engineer at ShareChat, Geetish has a strong background in search, GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes. Previously, Geetish worked as a Software Engineer Consultant at Lucidworks, where he was part of the core team responsible for building a multi-tenant managed search platform on Kubernetes. He was responsible for complete ownership of features implemented, code reviews, product evaluation, and mentoring other engineers. Geetish also architected and implemented multi-region deployment of Managed Search on GCP and AWS, incorporating best practices to run SaaS products with a focus on making the product highly available and fault-tolerant. He also drove important initiatives such as GCP Marketplace integration, audit logging, and workflow engine for long-running asynchronous processes. Geetish also architected the deployment of Lucidworks Fusion on GKE by click of a button with a version control mechanism. Before Lucidworks, Geetish worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit, where he led a team to implement the acquisition of bank statements for users in Quickbooks, reducing 50-70% of an accountant's time. He also implemented a service called Schema Service, which helps in the management of schemas across services. Geetish was responsible for architecting solutions for several requirements, working with architects, product managers to prioritize stories for sprint and quarterly planning. He also implemented migration of responsible services from DataCenter to AWS, keeping in mind security aspects and performance. Geetish holds a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied from 2012 to 2013. He has a diverse tech stack, including search, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, software engineering, Spring, Golang, Java, and integration. As an ex-entrepreneur, Geetish has a strong understanding of business and technology, making him an asset to any team.