About

Nand Sharma is an accomplished Architecture Lead with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. He is currently working at Ciena, where he is responsible for leading the architecture team. Prior to joining Ciena, Nand has worked at Grofers and RTS Labs, where he held senior software engineering roles. Nand is a versatile technologist with expertise in a wide range of technologies, including Python, distributed computing, architecture, NOSQL, SQL, Kafka, Cassandra, DynamoDB, AWS, cache, queue, DevOps, automation, Ansible, Terraform, and Haproxy. He has a background in full-stack development, backend development, and backend development with DevOps. At Ciena, Nand is responsible for network failure analysis, pre-emptive identification of network failure impacts, and managing cloud infrastructures. He has designed, created, and managed cloud infrastructures capable of handling billions of jobs per day. He has also migrated Ciena's flagship network planning software from local private clusters to AWS managed cloud. At Grofers, Nand built and worked on various systems, including release engineering, payment system, and wallet system. He created a system and tool chain for release engineering that can spin-off on-demand test environments running all the microservices in an isolated environment. He also worked on creating a microservice in Flask for the payment system, which powers Grofers' website and app. Additionally, he worked on creating a system that powers Grofers Cash, their in-house wallet, capable of handling all kinds of transactions. Nand holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from IIIT Allahabad. He also has experience in MySQL, Hadoop, search, Docker, web, CI/CD, Redis, Django, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Salesforce, and Apache Hive. Nand is a highly skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering complex projects under tight deadlines.