Nitin Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Software Engineer with a proven track record at Coinbase, adept in microservices architecture and technical documentation. Spearheaded the launch of Coinbase India, enhancing user experience and managing a team of 10+ engineers. Proficient in most tech languages, with strong leadership skills driving successful project outcomes.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Coinbase
07.2021 - Current
- Led Coinbase India launch to enable users to buy/sell cryptocurrency on the platform managing team of 10+ software engineers.
- Implemented AI-driven reconciliation processes to identify and rectify accounting discrepancies worth billions.
- Built and maintained data pipelines on Databricks for financial reconciliation of over $10 billion in monthly fiat payments.
- Developed comprehensive documentation for payment rail integration, facilitating collaboration among international teams, including Truelayer open banking project for EU and UK markets.
- Joined as the seventh employee in India, facilitating onboarding of new engineers and conducting interviews to expand Coinbase India.
Lead Engineer
EzCred Pvt Ltd
05.2017 - 07.2021
- Joined early stage seed-funded lending startup, contributing to product/service development across CD, education, travel, and healthcare verticals.
- Executed projects for lender integrations, merchant onboarding, loan origination system (LOS), learning management system (LMS), and lead generation/management.
- Lender Integrations - DMI Finance, Kotak Prime, Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Apollo Finvest, HDFS, Eduvanz, Avanse.
- Third Party Integrations : Bureaus - Cibil, CRIF, Equifax, Experian; KYC - Aadhaar, IDfy, NSDL; NACH - Digio TechProcess; Payment Gateway - Razorpay; Perfios.
- Project Management - Jira, Sprint Planning and Timelines for features, Business Priorities.
Software Developer
Finomena[8Finatics Pvt. Ltd.]
09.2015 - 04.2017
- Designed and developed MVP for lending, establishing core platform for loan origination and collections & notifications framework.
- Managed product suggestions and prioritized for implementation, ensuring alignment with project goals.
Founding Member
Pipli Internet Pvt. Ltd.
02.2015 - 08.2015
- Build the web crawling engine using scrapy framework and native android application for the product. Responsible for any product enhancements
Member Technical Staff
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2013 - 01.2015
- Worked on ODI (Oracle Data Integrator, an ELT tool) Studio and console with Oozie workflow and execution to manage the hadoop jobs.
Education
B.E.[Hons.] - Computer Science
BITS Pilani
05.2013
ISC (XII) -
Lucknow Public College
01.2009
ICSE (X) -
Lucknow Public College
01.2007
Skills
- Microservices architecture
- Amazon AWS
- AI-Driven Architecture
- Embeddings (OpenAI)
- Vector Databases (FAISS)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Temporal and Spring Boot
- MongoDB and Kafka
- Continuous integration
- Golang, Java, Python, RubyOnRails
- Technical documentation
- Code review
- Tools: Looker, Datadog, Glean, Sourcegraph, Buildkite, Databricks
- AI Agent Application with LLMs
Accomplishments
High Impact Reward : Awarded High Impact & Star Reward from Senior
Leadership for great work across India site
TechFest Presentation: Showcased Finomena at BITS Pilani Goa Tech-Fest, in front of 1500 attendees
Academic Recognition: Awarded for achievements in math and computer science by Government of India
Leadership for great work across India site
TechFest Presentation: Showcased Finomena at BITS Pilani Goa Tech-Fest, in front of 1500 attendees
Academic Recognition: Awarded for achievements in math and computer science by Government of India
Extracurricular Activities
Learning Spanish: Duolingo
Coursera.org: Machine Learning course by Stanford University by Prof. Andrew Ng and Programming Mobile Applications For Android Handheld Applications by University of Maryland and Understanding Financial Markets by University of Geneva
Independent Projects
AI Research Agent (Independent Project)
Designed and implemented a modular LLM-powered research agent capable of multi-step task planning and execution. [Github - https://github.com/nitinkr19/ai-research-agent, Live Demo - https://intelligentsearch.in/]
- Architected planner-executor workflow for autonomous task decomposition
- Integrated local LLM inference (Ollama – Llama3 / Phi3) with abstraction layer for model swapping
- Built FastAPI backend with streaming support and React-based UI
- Containerised full stack using Docker; configured service networking and environment isolation
- Structured codebase using provider pattern for extensible LLM integrations
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Coinbase
07.2021 - Current
Lead Engineer
EzCred Pvt Ltd
05.2017 - 07.2021
Software Developer
Finomena[8Finatics Pvt. Ltd.]
09.2015 - 04.2017
Founding Member
Pipli Internet Pvt. Ltd.
02.2015 - 08.2015
Member Technical Staff
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2013 - 01.2015
B.E.[Hons.] - Computer Science
BITS Pilani
ISC (XII) -
Lucknow Public College
ICSE (X) -
Lucknow Public College