Nikhil Nayak is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems and full‑stack products, now working as Software Engineer II at Akamai. He has delivered high-impact fintech platforms at Bajaj Broking—driving ₹782Cr+ in disbursals through ESOP lending workflows—and built performant search and observability solutions for production systems. Comfortable across Java, Spring Boot, Node/NestJS, PostgreSQL and cloud-native deployments (AWS EKS), he has repeatedly improved system reliability and throughput while shipping user-facing features. As a contributor to the popular supabase project, he enhanced table editing, import flows and auth endpoints—showing a knack for UX-sensitive backend work and strong typing. He also has hands-on experience integrating CDSL and DSC-based authentication for secure financial transfers and automating high‑traffic loan testing. Based in Pune, he blends product-focused engineering with a track record of moving complex workflows into production quickly.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the Supabase Studio, making improvements to table editing and import functionality. They fixed a bug related to case-insensitive table searching. Other changes include merging the master branch and strong typing for variables in the `TableEditorMenu` component. In addition, the user worked on updates to authentication API endpoints and modified the spreadsheet import functionality.
A sophisticated Chat Application [NestJs+Flutter].
Contributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 22 days
nestjschat-applicationchatdartflutter
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