About

Nikhil Raj is a seasoned backend developer with over 6 years of experience in the healthcare and infrastructure domains. He has a strong track record of building enterprise products from scratch to live phase, and has expertise in requirements analysis, design, development, and maintenance of core libraries and features. Currently working as a Lead Software Engineer at Qualys, Nikhil is passionate about data structures and algorithms, and keeps himself updated with new tech stacks. Nikhil's current role at LogicMonitor has given him exposure to infrastructure engineering, where he focuses on helping companies achieve stability and scalability through infrastructure monitoring, maintenance, and alerting. He is involved in day-to-day research and development with analytical data, building features, eliminating security issues, finding root causes of customer issues, and helping build the product better. Prior to LogicMonitor, Nikhil worked at Cognizant for over 4 years as a Backend Lead in the healthcare domain. He played a major role in building core libraries and POCs, enhancing product performance, delivering quality features, helping onboard clients, and working with cross-functional teams to achieve quicker and bug-free integration. Nikhil is a bookish person who likes to refresh his skills with documentation and technical books from time to time. Outside work, he enjoys playing games, listening to music, trying out different cuisines, and singing songs. With a relevant experience of 7.69 years, Nikhil's technical expertise includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Backend, Infra, Research Scientist, Spring, Test, SQL, Integration, Docker, Java, DevOps, QA, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spring Boot, AWS, Redis, Kubernetes, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, Microservices, UI, Frontend, and Web. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT Pune and completed his Intermediate and Matriculation from Shantiniketan Awasiya Bal Vidyalaya and Sun Shine Preparatory High School, respectively.