About

Nishanth Vijayan is a skilled Lead Software Engineer at Headout, with 4 years of experience in the software development industry. He is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from IIT Ropar, Punjab, who is passionate about using his programming skills to solve everyday problems. He has built several side-projects, some of which have been used by hundreds of people, demonstrating his passion for coding and problem-solving. Nishanth is proficient in various programming languages, including Golang, Kotlin, Javascript, and Python. He has extensive experience working with databases like MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Aerospike, and messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ. He has also worked on building microservices-based architectures and frontend development. In his current role at Headout, Nishanth leads the software engineering team and is responsible for developing and maintaining the company's products. He has implemented support for 3D Secure in Headout's payment module, leading to a significant reduction in fraud payment chargebacks. He has also built a Django-based web application that improved operational efficiency by replacing a legacy Google Sheet-based implementation. Previously, Nishanth worked as a Software Developer at BookMyShow, where he implemented an API gateway/aggregator service that acts as the single entry point for all front-end clients, invoking multiple internal microservices, collating their results, optionally applying business logic, and returning a consolidated response to the client. He also implemented a REST service that acted as the single source of truth for shared static entities like Categories, Genres, Languages, etc., used by multiple services across BookMyShow. Nishanth is an avid reader and spends most of his free time reading books, both technical and general fiction and non-fiction. He is an alumnus of the prestigious IIT Ropar, where he completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science. Nishanth is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for coding and problem-solving, making him a valuable asset to any team.