Summary
Nikhil Aravind is a senior software engineer based in San Diego with 11+ years building resilient, highly scalable back-end systems for major entertainment platforms like PlayStation, Netflix, and Crunchyroll. He specializes in platform identity, authentication/authorization, API security, and cloud orchestration, with a track record of designing production-grade services that enable game clients, partners, and large-scale integrations. Prior roles include architecting cost-saving AWS automation (a DynamoDB autoscaler that cut costs by ~70%) and building CRM and data-driven web platforms during his earlier career. Comfortable across JVM, Node.js, Python, and cloud-native stacks, he blends systems architecture with practical engineering to move features from design to production. Not obvious at first glance: he has applied research-style data engineering and visualization skills (D3/C3, time-series analysis) from an academic setting into production tooling for business and analytics use cases.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering Information Science/Studies, Bachelor of Engineering Information Science/Studies at JSS Academy Of Technical Education Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi