Nihit Kasabwala
Solutions Builder at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNihit Kasabwala is a Solutions Builder at AWS with nine years of professional experience designing and implementing cloud-first backend infrastructure. He brings deep AWS CDK expertise, contributing to the popular awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs library by building multi-service constructs such as Kinesis Streams to Glue Job integrations and adding integration tests and bug fixes. Prior roles as a Solution Architect at RBC and a long tenure at Tata Consultancy Services ground his work in enterprise architecture, delivery, and client-facing solution design. Based in Canada, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic system design, focusing on scalable, well-architected patterns for data integration and secrets management. Notably, his public GitHub repos emphasize independent experimentation with AWS tools—code he maintains outside official AWS vetting—highlighting a disciplined, self-driven approach to open-source contribution.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bhavan's A. H. Wadia Hight SchoolMaster of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information TechnologyB.E., Bio-Medical, B.E., Bio-Medical at D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Github Skills (15)
amazon-kinesis10
aws-glue10
cloud-infrastructure10
backend10
aws-cdk10
back-end-development10
kin10
ias8
amazon-s37
typescript-types7
python7
s3-bucket7
typescript7
typescripts7
aws-s37
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
The AWS Solutions Constructs Library is an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that provides multi-service, well-architected patterns for quickly defining solutions
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 13 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nihit primarily focused on developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and incorporating various AWS services like Kinesis, Glue, and Secrets Manager. Their work involved creating new constructs, implementing integration tests, and fixing bugs related to the integration of AWS services. Key contributions include the development of a Kinesis Streams to Glue Job construct and enhancements to existing constructs.
development-kitaws-cloudarchitectural-patternswell-architectedcloud-development
knihit/aws-solutions-constructs
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
The AWS Solutions Constructs Library is an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that provides multi-service, well-architected patterns for quickly defining solutions
Contributions:5 PRs, 180 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
development-kitaws-cloudwell-architectedcloud-developmentstep-functions
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