Nikhil Sharma
Senior Software Development Manager at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Sharma is a seasoned technology leader and Senior Software Development Manager in San Jose with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, site-critical distributed systems. At PayPal he built and led multi-geography engineering teams for PaaS products, drove a multi-year cloud migration of a database-proxy spanning 8 AZs and 1500+ machines, and scaled components used by 1000+ microservices. He blends deep systems engineering—authoring a patented transaction manager and contributing to open-source projects like Zipkin and a Grafana Druid plugin—with strong product and execution skills that cut time-to-market by half for internal customers. Known for hands-on backend work (Java data structures and algorithms evident in his GitHub contributions) and a pragmatic, keyboard-first approach to problem solving, he thrives at the intersection of operational resilience and developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Rajasthan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
user-friendly10
friendly-url10
data-structure10
java10
javas10
data-structures10
react9
tree8
babeljs6
lodash6
nodejs6
functional-programming6
webpack6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hacktoberfest17/programming
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Code a program in a language of your choice.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed Java code focused on data structures and algorithms. Their work involved implementing fundamental concepts like binary search, linked lists, and binary trees. Specifically, the commits demonstrate implementations for finding the length of a linked list, deleting nodes, searching elements, and printing the nth node from the end. Additionally, they added a binary search implementation.
pythonfunctional-programmingc-programmingoctaveerlang
Nickx58/Problem-Solving
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 233 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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