About

Nishkarsh Dixit is a Senior Software Developer and Search Engineer with over 6 years of experience in software development, specializing in SOLR, Java, Python, Cassandra, Elastic Search, and Spring Framework. He has a Post Graduation Certification in Machine Learning and Deep Learning from IIIT Bangalore and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Dr. K.N. Modi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Modinagar, Ghaziabad. Nishkarsh has extensive experience in improving search results and maintaining a proper balance of precision and recall for large-scale news and e-commerce websites. He has used SOLR for various business implementations using faceting, grouping, range queries, pivot, highlighting, and machine learning algorithms for semantic search, vernacular searches, translation, and predictive modeling. He has also worked on projects using NLP to detect illegal products on IM platforms and various text classification projects. Nishkarsh has handled highly scalable SOLR search systems with Java Spring MVC web services serving more than 80 million requests per day. He has also developed end-to-end REST web services using Python and Flask, handling a high number of user sessions in parallel with deployments. Nishkarsh's key skills include SOLR, Java, Python, Spring, Hibernate, Flask, SQL Database, MongoDB, and his relevant experience is 4.86 years. He has worked with Times Internet and HT Media Limited in the past, where he was responsible for Java spring MVC web services with multi-threading, SOLR optimization for SOLR cache, response time, and response size improvements, and custom SOLR filters and custom similarity classes for better search results. He has also worked on Python and Flask-based APIs to serve user queries. Overall, Nishkarsh is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Developer and Search Engineer with a strong background in SOLR, Java, Python, and NLP, capable of handling highly scalable search systems and developing end-to-end REST web services.