Summary
Nikit Periwal is a Senior Data Engineer with 8 years of experience building low-latency, cost-efficient data platforms, currently driving real-time analytics at Razorpay after impactful work at Target. He specializes in clickstream architectures, having rebuilt batch workflows into a Lambda architecture processing over 1M messages/min and introduced ClickHouse for near-real-time analytics that cut query runtimes by up to 90%. Nikit has migrated workloads to Dataproc Serverless and Delta Lake to enable CRUD on streaming datasets, and designed an Adaptive Load Balancer that boosted resource utilization while reducing manual ETL effort. Comfortable across Spark, Hive, GCP, and streaming systems, he blends practical engineering with creative automation to simplify complex data flows. His background includes production ML deployment and a consistent focus on reducing latency and operational overhead, reflecting a knack for turning research-grade ideas into measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, CGPA: 8.56, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, CGPA: 8.56 at Dr. Ambedkar Institute Of Technology