About

Nishit Chokhawala is a highly skilled Sr. Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in developing scalable services for various projects at Yahoo and eBay. He is currently working on AI/Machine Learning projects for the Yahoo Mail team. Nishit has a strong background in architecture design and hands-on development, with expertise in languages such as Scala, Java, Python, and JavaScript. He is also familiar with various tech stacks, including Play Framework, SBT, Maven, SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), Spring, Protobuf, RabbitMQ, Docker, PySpark, Hive, Pig, Hadoop, MapReduce, and AWS. Nishit has worked as a Software Engineer II at eBay and a Software Engineer at Investment Technology Group, Inc., where he upgraded a legacy desktop application to a 3-tier web-based application and migrated the back-end relational database from MS-Access to Sybase. He also developed a front-end using ExtJS to ensure cross-browser compatibility and implemented a lightweight multi-threaded middleware service using Java. Nishit has excellent skills in Java, ExtJS, JavaScript, DWR, Hibernate, SQL, JSP, and Unix. Moreover, Nishit has designed and developed a multi-threaded, multi-cast connector as a part of the Unified Real-Time system, which incorporated the capability to receive stock exchange data efficiently handling ~96Mb/s data stream. He also implemented a lost packet recovery module using the concept of reliable multicast protocols resulting in a gap-free, in-order data stream. Nishit provided real-time stock exchange data to several internal clients, including algorithmic trading applications and front-end trading systems. He has excellent skills in C++, Google Test(Unit Testing), and CVS. Nishit has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai. He is proficient in various tech stacks, including Software Engineering, SQL, AWS, AI, MapReduce, RabbitMQ, Java, Docker, ML, NoSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spring, test, Python, Scala, Apache Hive, Frontend, qa, product manager, Javascript, Backend, and Web.