About

Nakul Chawla is a Senior Software Engineer at Cruise, with a focus on Distributed Systems, Cloud, Decentralized p2p systems, and Blockchain. With 6.87 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of designing and implementing complex systems. In his current role at Cruise, Nakul is responsible for aggregating data on live transaction feeds of data in in-memory rocks db. He has also developed angular front-end UIs to understand the data and create rules for systems to flag transactions as fraud. Additionally, he has designed and deployed data processors that can handle the aggregation on live transaction feeds in real-time and queues fraud events. Nakul also designed and developed an event generating system that sends emails and other events to other systems for communication. Previously, Nakul worked as a Sr. Software Engineer at Visa, where he was responsible for designing and deploying data processors that can handle the aggregation on live transaction feeds in real-time and queues fraud events. He also designed and developed an event generating system that sends emails and other events to other systems for communication. Before joining Visa, Nakul worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, where he designed, implemented, and deployed a microservice architecture using Kubernetes and Terraform on multiple clouds (AWS/GCP). He also developed a REST service to automate all Kubernetes deployments, eliminating all manual deployment work. Nakul developed and maintained a few of the 20 services (Golang) on the Stellar cryptocurrency network. He also designed the atomic swap process from Bahamian Dollar (CBDC) to Stellar cryptocurrency. Nakul holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a B.E. degree in Information Science from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He is highly skilled in Software Engineering, Blockchain, P2P, AWS, Frontend, Decentralized, AngularJS, dotNET, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, GCP, Ansible, CI/CD, test, Research Scientist, NoSQL, Spring, Jenkins, and Microservices.