About

Palash Nigam is a skilled Generalist Polyglot Developer and Software Engineer with over 3 years of relevant experience. He is currently working at Percona as a Software Engineer on the Platform Team, where he has contributed to PMM and built Percona Platform. Palash is proficient in several programming languages, including Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, Shell, and C, and has experience working with databases such as Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, and Postgresql. Palash is an active open-source contributor with years of experience working on backend systems and developer tools. He frequently contributes to various open-source projects while also building his own side projects, which span over several languages such as Go, Rust, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, Zig, Python, etc., and databases like Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, etc. Palash's contributions to open-source projects have made him well-versed in software development and its best practices, including but not limited to version control, cloud-native infrastructure, databases, etc. Palash is interested in programming languages, especially functional programming, distributed systems, infrastructure engineering, systems programming, and databases. He is looking for Remote Software Engineer roles where he would get to work on distributed systems and also get to dabble in infrastructure and other aforementioned interests of his, with a bonus if the projects will be open-sourced. Palash is a graduate of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar, where he earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. He also completed his high school education at City Montessori School, where he studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Computer Science. Palash has previously worked as an SDE Intern at Hackerrank, where he worked on Git skills and CodeRunner, and as an LFX Mentee at CNCF, where he wrote a Google Cloud DNS plugin that serves DNS records from Google Cloud to CoreDNS. Palash is a skilled Software Engineer with expertise in infra, Ruby, Elastic Search, Backend, Python, Redis, MongoDB, test, dotNET, Microservices, and Web technologies.