About

Nivas Thangavelu is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at Apple as a Senior Software Engineer in the Apple Media Products - Search & Recommendation team. Prior to his current role, Nivas served as a Senior Software Engineer at Agoda, where he worked on pull supplier systems, helping Agoda to increase inventory, availability, and better pricing, thereby increasing bookings. He scaled the system from 10k QPS to over 10X and developed a dynamic rate limiter to optimally use rate limit enforced by external suppliers across DC's & Servers. He also onboarded multiple suppliers and enabled new rate channels, increasing bookings from pull sources. Nivas developed a dynamic priority-based filtering layer to improve the quality and relevance of data being fetched from external suppliers. He identified and migrated specific in-memory cache to Couchbase, enabling fairer load balancing. Prior to Agoda, Nivas worked as a Software Engineer 2, serving the backend team that served as a single point of contact for all the FE. This layer orchestrated data from several downstream microservices which handled availability, pricing, sort, and ranking. Nivas holds a Master's degree in Theoretical Computer Science from PSG College of Technology, where he graduated in 2013. He has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, Search, Microservices, and Backend development. Nivas is a highly motivated individual with a passion for software engineering. He has a proven track record of delivering high-quality results, and his experience in the field makes him a valuable asset to any team.