About

Nitin Aggarwal is a Senior Member Technical at the D.E. Shaw Group, with a strong background in Java Backend and Cloud Services Development. He has 3.5+ years of relevant experience and is an expert in C++, Java, Microservices, Springboot, Docker, Apache Kafka, and Redis. Nitin is a certified OCI Developer and Architect, with experience developing ETL and Data Orchestration Cloud services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) under Big Data & AI Group at Oracle. Nitin holds a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor Specialization in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee'19 Batch. He has also completed a research internship at the University of Regina, Canada, as a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern (2018) and served as a Junior Research Fellow (2017) at TIFR, Mumbai. In his previous role as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SDE III) at Oracle, Nitin designed and developed a distributed system for handling execution of Spark jobs, Airflow Data Pipelines & traffic routing under heavy load scenario via message broker (Apache Kafka). He also designed and developed a Java framework from scratch using OCI SDK for performance benchmarking of Data Integration and Data Orchestration Service (DOS) to determine threshold limits, bottlenecks and improve overall performance for customers. Nitin has published a tech blog on Apache Kafka for OCI IDC Engineering Community and conducted interviews to help hire great talent for the team. Nitin's expertise extends to Agile, Test Driven Development, DevOps essential tools like Git, Gradle, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, and more. He has strong experience with Big Data, AI, ETL, Integration, Backend, infra, and test, making him a valuable asset to any team. Nitin is open to connecting with like-minded professionals for a 1:1 catch-up via topmate.io/nitinaggarwal.