About

Keshav Nandan is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Uber with almost a decade of experience in the industry. He is also a Product Mentor at EnjoyAlgorithms. Keshav holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. He is also a graduate of Super 30, a program that provides free coaching to underprivileged students for the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination. Keshav is an expert in distributed systems, microservices, Golang, Java, Kafka (Pub-Sub, Streaming), Flink (Stream Processing), Redis (Caching), Cassandra (DB), Elasticsearch (Search), ELK/Grafana/Zap (Logging), and Jaeger (Tracing). He has led projects end-to-end, including setting up backend infrastructure for computing Uber Eats marketplace metrics from scratch and solving complex engineering problems with a direct impact on revenue and profitability for the business. Currently, Keshav is part of the Eats Logistics Platform team at Uber, where he is responsible for improving the reliability and efficiency of the delivery of Eats orders by designing engineering solutions for Eats workflow management. He uses a tech stack that involves Go, Cassandra, Kafka, and more. He has also led engineering efforts to make the restaurants experience better for creating marketing campaigns and led the end-to-end development of the weekly budget feature for restaurant promotions, which unlocked the ability of restaurants to launch long-running marketing campaigns. In his previous role at Uber, Keshav was part of the Eats Marketplace Intelligence team, where he developed infrastructure from scratch to compute marketplace metrics on Eats scale in real-time with low latency. He also designed and led the implementation of a DSL (for rules) and rule engine for trend detection, which detects deterioration in the health of the marketplace. He proactively identifies hidden marketplace health issues that negatively impact Eats business over a longer period of time. Keshav's tech stack includes software engineering, Cassandra, Kafka, infra, Redis, Elastic Search, microservices, search, backend, Golang, and Java. With almost a decade of relevant experience, Keshav is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality work and driving business growth.