Nikita Acharya
Senior Developer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Acharya is a Senior Developer based in New York with a decade of professional experience designing and delivering business-critical web applications, currently contributing to Shopify’s platform. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and microservices, and has practical experience across Go, Python, AWS services, and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and SQS to build scalable, secure systems. At CloudFactory he led stability and performance initiatives—cutting a cron job from six hours to minutes—and helped architect microservice stacks with Docker, ECS, and CloudFormation. Nikita pairs deep engineering practice with teaching and research: he taught undergraduate OS and Python labs and co-authored a paper on detecting error-rate anomalies in NISQ quantum computers. Comfortable in Agile teams, he mentors engineers, drives tech choices, and bridges product and operations to ship reliable software at scale.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.98, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.98 at The City College of New York+2, Biology, +2, Biology at National School Of Sciences, NIST, LainchaurSLC, SLC at Paragon Public SchoolBachelor in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor in Engineering, Computer Engineering at Advanced college of engineering and management/Tribhuwan University
English, Nepali
Github Skills (65)
javascript9
github9
design-tokens9
git9
vscode-extension9
queue8
distribute8
figma-plugin8
component-library8
testing8
invocation8
react8
open-source8
typescript8
shopify8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nikita8/shared_services
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
docker-compose for server setup in local machines.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
machinesvaultwardendockercomposedocker-compose
nikita8/WorkerManagement
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
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