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Nishant Prakash

Bengaluru

Summary

Backend engineer specializing in building scalable microservices, platform integrations, and AI-enabled infrastructure across fintech and developer platforms.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Backend Deeveloper

Visa Inc.
05.2022 - Current

Visa Developer Platform (VDP)

  • Designed and implemented a runtime microservice from scratch to perform encryption and decryption of sensitive payloads in transit, handling over 5 million requests daily, and significantly enhancing data security and regulatory compliance.
  • Integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Visa Developer Platform Gateway, exposing core gateway services (AuthN, ARM, NPPS) as standardized AI-accessible tools — enabling intelligent observability, debugging, and developer self-service.
  • Engineered a scalable solution to support large payloads exceeding 10GB in API requests, enabling seamless ingestion of high-volume data from external partners without performance degradation.
  • Migrated legacy file-based logging system to a Kafka-based distributed logging pipeline, improving log throughput by 40% and enabling real-time analysis across gateway services.
  • Led the complete Splunk to Humio migration initiative, successfully transitioning over 100+ dashboards and 200+ alerts, reducing log analysis latency by 35% and cutting monitoring costs through licensing optimization.

Senior Software Engineer

Tavant Technologies
04.2021 - 05.2022

Finexperience – Digital Mortgage Platform

  • Designed and developed a loan management web application tailored for loan officers to view, track, and manage borrower profiles and loan details, reducing manual processing time by 40%.
  • Implemented key modules for document upload, e-signature, and e-disclosure using Spring Boot, OAuth, and AWS services, enabling a paperless mortgage approval process across 100+ banking clients.
  • Built a flexible system to connect with different financial data sources using REST APIs and Kafka, which reduced the time to onboard new data providers by 50%.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams including product and QA to ensure successful delivery of microservices with 99.9% uptime and compliance.

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
04.2018 - 04.2021
  • Built a real-time transaction risk engine for a fintech client using Java and Kafka, capable of processing 10K+ transactions/sec, improving fraud detection accuracy and reducing false positives by 30%.
  • Led a data migration project for a healthcare client, moving 5+ TB of patient data to Snowflake using Informatica, and built Tableau dashboards to visualize KPIs like claim rejections and patient discharge trends.
  • Performed EDA using Python (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib) to uncover high-risk patient segments, contributing to a 10% reduction in re-admission penalties and improved clinical decision-making.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

Institute of Technical Education And Research(ITER)
Bhubaneswar
03-2018

Skills

    Programming: Java, Python, Unix/Shell Scripting

    Database: Redshift, Teradata, MySQL, MongoDB
    Data Analysis Libraries: Pandas, NumPy
    Tools and Frameworks: GIT, Postman, Tableau, Springboot

Timeline

Senior Backend Deeveloper

Visa Inc.
05.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Tavant Technologies
04.2021 - 05.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
04.2018 - 04.2021

B.Tech - Computer Science

Institute of Technical Education And Research(ITER)
Nishant Prakash