Nick Mahilani
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Mahilani is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, highly reliable distributed data platforms for realtime use cases, currently spearheading projects at Netflix from Kafka-as-a-Service to the Mantis stream-processing platform. He blends deep systems and backend expertise—earned across Cisco, Twilio, and Netflix—with a hands-on approach to refactoring and dependency reduction in critical open-source infrastructure like Netflix/mantis. At Twilio he led messaging-edge and delivery systems at global scale, migrating high-throughput pipelines with zero downtime, and at Cisco he focused on scalability and reliability for telepresence and networking products. Based in San Jose, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with business training from Stanford Ignite, enabling pragmatic technical decisions that align with product and operational constraints. Known for optimizing subscription refreshes, tightening event publish semantics, and removing heavyweight runtime dependencies, he brings a strong bias for maintainable, cost-effective realtime systems. He is an active contributor to realtime data infrastructure and thrives on turning operational pain points into platform-level solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Stanford Ignite: Powering Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Certificate, Stanford Ignite: Powering Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBE, Information Technology, BE, Information Technology at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
back-end-development10
rxjava10
java10
rxjavafx10
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/mantis
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
A platform that makes it easy for developers to build realtime, cost-effective, operations-focused applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 35 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on refactoring and removing dependencies in the Mantis project. The commits demonstrate the removal of RxJava dependency across multiple core modules. Additionally, the user fixed Javadoc issues, moved Netty-specific protocol objects, handled invalid MQL queries, and optimized subscription refresh processes. They also updated log levels and returned the status from the event publish API.
realtimeeffectivefor-developersfocusedcost-effective
nickmahilani/mantis
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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