About

Nikesh Kumar is a skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Java, Python, SQL, and Algorithms. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University, where he honed his skills in designing and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software. Nikesh is passionate about building high-reliable, scalable, and distributed lightweight backend services. He has experience in designing and developing software that reduces time and human effort. He is currently working as a Software Developer Intern at smartworkz, where he designed an e-commerce website for ATG client, increasing online customer frequency to the website by 60% than before. He also implemented long-tailed distribution and Collaborative filtering algorithms for recommendations, which improved the recommendations by 70%. Nikesh has previously worked as a Software Engineer (Co-op) at ATG Informatics, where he designed CMS, a JIRA like Alert Management Tool to manage alerts generated by ATG host system, currently being used by 250+ internal colleagues at the organization. He also worked on evaluating RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and Apache Kafka by various metrics that include Brokered latency, Routing capabilities, throughput, HA transaction capability. He has also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Trinet, where he designed SUSO (Scale Up Scale Out) Architecture and migrated Payroll application from monolithic to microservices architecture, which improved performance by ~12%. Nikesh's educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from VIT and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. He is skilled in Software Engineering, SQL, Backend, Java, Python, Microservices, Spring, and infra. With 4.20 years of relevant experience, Nikesh is a dedicated professional who is always looking for opportunities to learn and grow in the field of Information Technology.