Nikhil Shinde
Architect Lead Engineer (Client Mastercard) at Persistent Systems
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Shinde is an Architect Lead Engineer with ~11 years of experience designing and scaling secure, cloud-native backend systems across FinTech, e-commerce, and analytics, currently leading engineering for Mastercard at Persistent Systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, Java/Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, AWS and Kubernetes with a track record of building observable, fault-tolerant platforms that handle large-scale workloads. Known for balancing technical depth with people leadership, he drives architecture decisions, leads design reviews, and mentors engineers toward production-ready delivery. His background includes building recommendation and analytics services for AI-enabled event platforms and payment-integrated microservices, giving him practical experience across data, real-time messaging, and transactional domains. Actively growing toward Staff/Principal-level impact, he favors system thinking, long-term technical vision, and engineering practices that improve code quality and cross-team alignment. Based in Pune, he pairs a passion for distributed systems with a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and coaching.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering at Walchand College Of Engineering, SangliHSC Science, HSC Science at Dayanand College of Arts & Science, SolapurSSC, SSC at Chhatrapati Shivaji High School, Solapur
Marathi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
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git6
javascript6
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pdf-reader4
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docker2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilshinde57/Push-Notification
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nikhilshinde57/hrms-spring-boot-microservices-implementation
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:35 PRs, 43 pushes, 21 branches in 2 months
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