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Nishant Takkar

Nishant Takkar

Engineering Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Engineering Leader with Over 9 years Software Industry experience and 3 Years of experience building, managing and leading high performing full stack teams.

Experience working in varied domains like Ecommerce, Supply Chain, Logistics, Core Platform and Shipping Terminals building and maintaining highly scalable products.

Technologies: Kotlin, Java, MySql, PostgreSQL, Redis , Spring-boot, Spring JPA, Apache Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Hibernate, AngularJS, React.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Group Senior Engineering Manager

DP World (Cargoes India Pvt Ltd)
02.2023 - Current
  • Managing 2 Full Stack Pods of total 17 Engineers under Ports & Terminals Vertical of DP World.
  • Developed Platform Notification Engine with capabilities like email, SMS, whatsapp to handle scale of 5k RPM
  • Evangelized and delivered the initiative to reduce the launch time of P&T Solutions in a new Terminal by 20%.
  • Launched 8 new Terminals across world managing stakeholders, integrating with region specific authorities and processes.
  • Introduced Generic Workflow to Build generic Product in Yard Module to reduce development time of new Terminal
  • Led Overall Performance Tuning Initiative to improve database and system performance.

Senior Engineering Manager

Pharmeasy (API Holdings)
06.2019 - 02.2023

Senior Engineering Manager (April 2021 - Feb 2023):

  • Leading 12 Engineers for Engineering Charter of 2 Teams (MarketPlace and Warehouse Management Team) under Supply Chain.
  • Spearheaded team for design and execution of Order Fuflilment Service which acts as orchestrator of all order flows for SCM
  • Orchestrated development of platform services like distributed scheduler, transactional outbox.
  • Lead Planning and execution Promise Engine Project which aims to show realtime ETAs to customers for order delivery, scaling system upto 60k rpm at peak load.
  • Responsibilities include working with Product Team for closing Quarter Roadmap , evaluate open-source frameworks/ packages, influence and drive architecture and design discussions with Architects, code reviews, prioritising tech debts, mentoring and increasing productivity of engineers.

Technical Lead (June 2019- April 2021):

  • Designed and Delivered MVP of MarketPlace Order Flow including modules for Seller Inventory Mgmt, Order Delegation, Order Tracking State Machines and integration with 3rd Party SaaS Platform.
  • Build Listing Service to power the inventory visibility of products to customers, currently handling 1cr listing and peak 10k rpm load.
  • Lead a Team of 4 engineers for Warehouse and Inventory Management Pod for SCM Team.
  • Re-Architecture of Inventory Blocking Module for Orders to scale it clocking 2k tps and serving 1 .5lac orders per day at peak .
  • Lead Effort to Enable B2B Model for PharmEasy integrating Inventory and Warehouse flow to enable Order fulfilment of 3rd Party Vendors. Designed and Developed Distributed Auditing Service for SCM System.
  • Technologies: Kotlin, Java, MySql, PostgreSQL, Redis ,Rabbitmq, Spring-boot, Spring JPA, Apache Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes

Senior Software Engineer

Myntra- Flipkart-Walmart Group(Fashion E-commerce)
07.2017 - 06.2019
  • Contributed in High and Low level design of various components of Order Indent/Purchase-Order Invoice generation system for generating invoice against vendors and tracking inward stocks.
  • Designed and implemented APIs to support multi-tenancy for Received Goods consumption, sticker-correction and order-indent which has throughput rate of around 4000 TPS.
  • Created data pipeline for integration with Analytics to help System take intelligent decisions based on Trends and historical data.
  • Lead team of 3 Engineers to Develop Job-Tracker, asynchronous event processing system for monitoring and updating status of jobs ,
  • Designed and implemented various components like batch-processing of jobs and error handling for job failures Technologies: Java 8, MySql, Redis ,RabbitMq, Spring-rest, Hibernate, Log4j2, Elastic-Search, Apache Kafka

Software Engineer 2

Snapdeal(MarketPlace Ecommerce)
12.2014 - 07.2017
  • Developed and re-vamped Sellers Platform of Snapdeal ,Worked aggregator and data filtering channel,Provides functionality including Automated Validations,Raw Data Enrichment, Specific Attribute passing to Pricing, Shipping, Catalog Systems
  • Built Self Serve Platform for Quality Check Software used by Ops For Automated Validations for Seller Products. Delivered Key-Value Content Edit QC including Requirement Gathering, Client Apis and Database Designing, Testing for Editing of Product Attributes by Sellers listed on Snapdeal's website
  • Technologies: Apache Kafka. Technologies: Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Web services(Rest), MongoDB,MySql

Education

Bachelors in Technology - Computer Science

Thapar University
Punjab
04.2001 -

Timeline

Group Senior Engineering Manager

DP World (Cargoes India Pvt Ltd)
02.2023 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Pharmeasy (API Holdings)
06.2019 - 02.2023

Senior Software Engineer

Myntra- Flipkart-Walmart Group(Fashion E-commerce)
07.2017 - 06.2019

Software Engineer 2

Snapdeal(MarketPlace Ecommerce)
12.2014 - 07.2017

Bachelors in Technology - Computer Science

Thapar University
04.2001 -
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