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Nishikanta Sahoo
Bengaluru,KA
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Summary
Staff-level Distributed Systems Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and building high-scale, cloud-native platforms across network monitoring, telecom, and automotive domains. Proven expertise in architecting event-driven systems, telemetry pipelines, and microservices handling hundreds of thousands of entities and high-throughput data streams. Strong background in Go, C++, Kafka, Kubernetes, and system design with deep focus on scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and observability. Experienced in leading architecture decisions, solving complex distributed system problems, and delivering production-grade platforms.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff / Distributed Systems Engineer /Backend Developer
IBM ISL
Bangalore
12.2024 - Current
- Designed and implemented cloud-native telemetry collectors handling 300K+ network devices
- Built Kafka-based ingestion pipelines for high-throughput event streaming and processing
- Developed REST and gRPC APIs for scalable service communication
- Architected device discovery, metrics ingestion, and topology pipelines
- Implemented concurrency optimizations (worker pools, batching, rate limiting) improving throughput
- Built distributed caching solutions reducing redundant API calls and improving latency
- Designed metadata ingestion and enrichment framework for network devices
- Developed SDN simulator for large-scale topology and fault testing
- Led topology architecture migration to standardized models
- Improved reliability using structured logging, tracing, and monitoring
- Tech Stack: Go, C++, C, Python, OAuth2, JWT, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, MariaDB, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, K8S, RBAC, AWS
Developer / Architect – AUTOSAR ADAS Platform
KPIT
07.2023 - 11.2024
- Developed middleware services for Linux-based AUTOSAR systems
- Solved complex deadlocks and concurrency issues in distributed systems
- Implemented secure TLS-based communication across vehicle subsystems
- Built automation tools for service-to-code generation
- Optimized inter-process communication (IPC) for performance and reliability
- Contributed to functional safety requirements (ISO 26262)
- Tech Stack: C++, C, JWT, REST, gRPC, MariaDB, K8S, Docker, Podman, TCP/UDP, RTP, TLS/SSL, API Security, Linux, CI/CD
Lead Backend / Platform Engineer
Nouveau Labs
11.2021 - 07.2023
- Designed and implemented event-driven microservices architecture
- Built asynchronous execution engine improving system throughput
- Implemented Redis-based distributed caching layer
- Developed high-concurrency backend APIs
- Led platform architecture decisions and team mentorship
- Tech Stack: Go, C++, C, JWT, REST, gRPC, MariaDB, K8S, TCP/UDP, RTP, TLS/SSL, API Security, Linux, CI/CD, SBC, Kamailio, SIP Stack
Lead Engineer / SME
Capgemini
06.2016 - 11.2021
- Built real-time communication systems using RTP/SRTP protocols for Cisco CUBE(SBC) & Media Proxy
- Developed WebSocket-based real-time services
- Designed cloud contact center architecture with load balancing (HAProxy)
- Implemented monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Optimized media processing performance in distributed environments
- (Cisco Projects)
Senior Software Engineer
Radisys / Aricent
01.2009 - 01.2016
- Developed SIP, RTP, SRTP protocol stack components for Radisys MRF Engine
- Built media resource and codec integration modules (EVS, AMR, G729, G711, H.264, VP8)
- Implemented logging and diagnostics frameworks for telecom systems
- Worked on high-performance, low-latency communication systems
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT)
OdishaSkills
- Go
- C
- C
- Python
- SQL
- Shell
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Distributed Caching
- CAP Theorem
- Consistency Models
- Kafka
- Redis Streams
- RabbitMQ
- REST
- GRPC
- GraphQL
- WebSocket
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- TimescaleDB
- MongoDB
- Cassandra
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Structured Logging
- High-Throughput Systems
- Backpressure Handling
- Rate Limiting
- Circuit Breaker
- Retry Strategies
- Goroutines
- Thread Pools
- Locking
- Deadlock Resolution
- Memory Optimization
- TLS/SSL
- OAuth2
- JWT
- API Security
- RBAC
- SNMP
- NetFlow
- TCP/IP
- Network Topology
Additional Highlights
- 13+ years building high-performance backend and distributed systems
- Strong expertise in debugging production-scale issues
- Proven ability to design systems from scratch and scale them
- Experience across networking, telecom, automotive, and cloud platforms
Projects
Network Monitoring Platform (NMS + Collector Stack), Designed and implemented a large-scale Network Monitoring System handling 300K+ network devices with real-time telemetry ingestion and analytics., Built end-to-end distributed architecture: Collectors → API Gateway → Microservices → Kafka → Databases, Designed event-driven ingestion pipeline using Kafka for scalable processing, Implemented time-series metrics storage using TimescaleDB for high-volume telemetry, Developed multi-layer caching strategy (in-memory + Redis) improving response latency, Designed horizontal scaling architecture using Kubernetes and stateless services, Built real-time streaming + batch processing pipeline for metrics and alerts, Scaled system to support 300K+ devices and high-frequency metric ingestion, Reduced API latency using caching and optimized query patterns, Implemented collector framework for vendor integrations (Mist, Meraki, ACI, SNMP), Designed fault-tolerant system with retry, circuit breaker, and backoff strategies, Built high-throughput NetFlow processing pipeline for traffic analytics
System Design And Architecture Expertise
- Large-scale telemetry ingestion systems
- Event-driven architecture using Kafka
- Time-series data modeling and optimization
- Distributed caching strategies
- High-availability and fault-tolerant systems
- API gateway and microservices architecture
- Network monitoring and observability systems
- Horizontal scaling and auto-scaling systems
- Data partitioning and sharding strategies
Core Skills
Go, C++, C, Python, SQL, Shell, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Caching, CAP Theorem, Consistency Models, Kafka, Redis Streams, RabbitMQ, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, MySQL, MariaDB, TimescaleDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Linux, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Structured Logging, High-Throughput Systems, Backpressure Handling, Rate Limiting, Circuit Breaker, Retry Strategies, Goroutines, Thread Pools, Locking, Deadlock Resolution, Memory Optimization, TLS/SSL, OAuth2, JWT, API Security, RBAC, SNMP, NetFlow, gRPC, TCP/IP, Network Topology
Timeline
Staff / Distributed Systems Engineer /Backend Developer
IBM ISL
12.2024 - Current
Developer / Architect – AUTOSAR ADAS Platform
KPIT
07.2023 - 11.2024
Lead Backend / Platform Engineer
Nouveau Labs
11.2021 - 07.2023
Lead Engineer / SME
Capgemini
06.2016 - 11.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Radisys / Aricent
01.2009 - 01.2016
B.Tech - Information Technology
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT)