Kapish Malik
Principal Software Engineer at Newfold Digital
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKapish Malik is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and scaling Java-based microservice architectures for high-traffic platforms, currently leading engineering at Newfold Digital in Bengaluru. He has driven core API platform work powering millions of customers across brands like BigRock and Hostgator, building resilient domain-management services, payment integrations, and automated SDK generation in CI/CD pipelines. His hands-on background spans OAuth/JWT-based auth with AWS Cognito, distributed tracing and logging, and single-handed delivery of compliance-focused microservices now reused company-wide. An active open-source contributor, he improved request matching, JWT support, and templating in the popular Hoverfly API simulation project, enhancing testability for distributed systems. Known for combining deep technical ownership with pragmatic automation, he pairs an M.Tech. from IIIT-Delhi with a track record of turning complex, legacy systems into scalable, observable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NoidaNew Era Public SchoolMaster of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
English, Hindi, Punjabi
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Github Skills (12)
mocks10
go10
mocking10
testing10
jwt9
golang9
rest-api9
json9
api8
apim8
git8
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SpectoLabs/hoverfly
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 9 commits, 49 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kapish primarily contributed to enhancing the core functionalities of the Hoverfly project, focusing on request matching and templating. They implemented and refined several request matchers, including "contains," "contains exactly," and "array," fixing implementation issues and expanding their capabilities. Additionally, the user added support for JWT matching, and introduced features related to data exclusion and filtering. These changes improved the flexibility and functionality of the API simulation tool.
proxytesterssimulationvirtualizationmocking
kapishmalik/wiremock
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
A tool for mocking HTTP services
Contributions:36 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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