Nakul shukla
Principal Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNakul Shukla is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 15+ years in software development and architecture, currently driving platform and distributed systems work at Zalando. He builds simple, pragmatic solutions for complex problems and has moved through senior engineering and architecture roles at Delivery Hero, SIXT R&D, and Amdocs, applying microservices and platform engineering patterns across large-scale systems. Known for blending hands-on coding with system-level design, he focuses on developer tools, reliability, and scalable platforms that reduce operational friction. His background in electronics and communications gives him a hardware-aware perspective when reasoning about performance and system boundaries. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into clean architectures and incremental delivery plans. He brings a pattern-oriented mindset and a preference for elegant, low-complexity solutions in distributed environments.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Medicaps institute of Technology & ManagementSchool for excellence,Ujjain
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Github Skills (17)
tomcat6
maven6
eclipse6
microservices6
apache-kafka6
kube-dns6
grafana6
java6
webservice6
proxy5
tunnel5
docker5
vpn4
openshift3
kubernetes3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nakulshukla08/greenfield
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 9 months
nakulshukla08/techwording
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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