About

Nitish Kundala is a software development engineer at Amazon Alexa with a passion for designing, architecting, and coding software-based solutions to challenging problems that make positive and productive value additions to customers and the ecosystem around them. He is a graduate software engineer with over 15 months of internship experience developing robust software solutions for high-volume businesses and startups. Nitish's achievements include developing an AI agent for Lockheed Martin using reinforcement learning to play complex strategic war games against AI agents developed by pan-American university teams. He also designed and implemented CQRS and Event sourcing pattern in a microservice architecture, improving the availability of the master data store by 50% through collaboration with lead architects at a SAP incubation startup. Nitish has designed, developed, and deployed software-based automation solutions that boosted customer retention by 50% and customer addition by 100% for a fintech startup. Nitish is an enthusiastic team player, problem solver, and creative thinker. He has been certified as a Google Associate Android Developer and earned the 2nd prize at the Philips Ideation Hackathon held in Feb 2020 at the CMU - Tepper School of Business. Nitish integrated RedCarpetUp's Android application with the Indian government's Aadhaar (National Biometric Database) API, allowing for customers' documents to be identified and authenticated through an e-signature tap, eliminating days of manual effort and reams of paper. Nitish's technical skills include AWS, Microservices, Android, Web Services, ElasticSearch, Spring Framework, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, and programming skills include JAVA, Kotlin, C++, and NodeJS. He has worked as a Software Engineering Intern with TCS, where he developed a Java application to automate the process of payments failure daily reconciliation, saving 480-520 man-hours of effort and leading to a cost saving of $0.003 million per year for the IT support team. Nitish has also worked with the Operations team of a global telecommunications company's (India unit) IT support function. Nitish has a Master's degree in Software Engineering, Scalable Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He has also completed High School from Maharashtra Board for Higher Secondary Education, Secondary School from Hiranandani Foundation School, and Primary School from Kendriya Vidyalaya. Nitish's tech stack includes Software