About

Nitish Ojha is a highly experienced Tech Lead with a strong background in software engineering and a passion for writing. He is currently working at Rapido, where he leads the Captain Acquisition Charter, a team responsible for onboarding captains to the Rapido platform and improving the registration to activation journey. Nitish has a wealth of experience in leading teams from product design to implementation, deployment, and monitoring. Nitish is also a successful author, having written two Hindi books, Ek Aaghaaz and 7 Kirdaar, both of which are available on Amazon and Flipkart with 1000+ reviews each and an average rating of 4.5 and above. 7 Kirdaar was the most selling Hindi book of India in the fiction category as per Neilsen Bookscan rankings. Nitish has a strong technical background, with expertise in Java, Design Patterns, SQL, NoSQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Redis, Zookeeper, and a bit of Machine Learning. He has previously worked at Flipkart as a Software Development Engineer 3, where he led a team of five members and designed and implemented a highly scalable system for tracking inventory-based offers. He has also worked on Model Monitoring, where he designed and implemented a centralized platform to manage the blue-collar workforce of Ekart across pan India. Additionally, he has designed and implemented an attendance management system to maintain attendance, roster, and holidays of the blue-collar workforce pan India. Nitish holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) and completed his schooling from Cathedral School, Lucknow. Nitish has a strong technical skill set that includes Senior Software Engineer, Java, Kafka, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Elastic Search, NoSQL, Redis, ML, Software Engineer, Python, Spring Boot, and Mobile. With almost 10 years of relevant experience, Nitish is a highly skilled and experienced Tech Lead with a passion for writing and a proven track record of success.