About

Nitanshu Vashistha is a Software Development Engineer II at HackerRank with a passion for programming and problem-solving. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Manipal University Jaipur and has been working in the software engineering field for 2.78 years. Nitanshu's experience includes designing and building the mobile assessment solution for both screening and interview products at HackerRank. He has also integrated emulators with their platform and appetize.io, making HackerRank the first platform to provide full-fledged mobile developer assessment for Android and iOS development. Nitanshu has mentored interns by providing design guidance and code reviews, and has hands-on experience with AWS for setting up load balancers and deploying services via ECS. In his previous role as a Software Development Engineer I at HackerRank, Nitanshu made the data platform GDPR compliant using spark jobs for data deletion and updation. He also implemented logging and alerting for the spark jobs of the data platform using ELK stack, and reduced the cost for the EMR clusters running the spark jobs by 55% by replacing UDF with native spark SQL functions and fine-tuning resources for the driver and executors. Nitanshu built an automated data backfill system for the data platform and gained hands-on experience with AWS for setting up load balancers and deploying services via ECS. As a Software Engineer Intern at HackerRank, Nitanshu designed, built, and deployed a node.js microservice from scratch for user identity unification. He worked closely with senior engineers in the team to integrate it with the near real-time data ingestion platform for generating skill profiles of the candidate. The service currently manages 20 million users' data and handles 1.2 million requests per day. Nitanshu is proficient in a range of technologies, including Software Engineering, Spark, AWS, Mobile, Python, Ruby, iOS, SQL, Integration, ECS, Javascript, CI/CD, Microservices, Infra, Image Processing, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, ML, Search, Flask, Postgres, GCP, and Web. He is always looking to devise innovative solutions to tackle real-world problems through code and is open to opportunities that help him further his career objectives and grow and learn.