Summary
Nikhil Bhargav is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 5 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, scalable backend systems using Java and Spring. At PayPal he led initiatives that improved subscription component availability from three to nearly five nines, cut P99 latencies by 75x, and scaled DB queries and APIs by up to 400x, directly improving experience for thousands of merchants. He previously built a DAG-driven customer migration platform and helped integrate it across 15 teams, and at Apple automated GDPR web services with Kafka/Cassandra to save hundreds of manual hours monthly. Comfortable in both greenfield architecture and surgical performance optimization, he combines strong analytical rigor with a track record of measurable reliability gains. Though primarily server-side, his GitHub bio notes frontend interests, reflecting a full-stack curiosity that informs pragmatic, user-focused engineering.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana