About

Nitin Kalra is a Principal Engineer at Paytm with over 11 years of relevant experience in the software engineering industry. Currently, he is serving as a Lead Software Developer at BlueStacks, where he is responsible for improving the first launch experience by customizing the first-time account addition and enhancing security features. Nitin is a skilled software developer with expertise in Java, C, Kotlin, Android, and Bash. He has a strong engineering background, having earned his Bachelor of Technology from NIT Kurukshetra. Nitin has worked with various companies in the past, including BlueStacks, where he served as a Senior Software Developer. During his tenure, he designed and implemented a Configuration Engine for changing the behavior of various core components with just a configuration change on the cloud. He also worked on a Command Processor Engine to handle incoming requests from Windows Components and wrote many REST APIs to change the system behavior and retrieve the current state. Before that, Nitin worked as a Software Developer at BlueStacks, where he focused on system performance improvement, reducing the first boot time, and build time. He also improved app compatibility by solving various issues, such as keyboard input handling improvements and implementing location features. Nitin's technical skills are extensive, including software engineering, Java, Android, AWS, Kotlin, Spring, SQL, Spring Boot, Jenkins, microservices, CI/CD, Redis, Javascript, NoSQL, mobile, and infra. He is a competent software engineer with a strong track record of delivering results.