Nilesh Mahajan
Co-Founder at Walkthrough
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNilesh Mahajan is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and developer-focused products. He’s currently splitting time between leading Onehouse’s Cloud & SaaS platform as a founding engineer and co-founding Next9.ai to radically improve engineering on-call effectiveness, while also running a developer-tutorial startup, Walkthrough. His background spans high-scale roles at Uber and eBay, where he built real-time data systems and resilient edge streaming gateways, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming, and platform reliability. Trained at Stony Brook and with early systems work at IBM, he combines research pedigree with hands-on product engineering and a knack for turning complex infrastructure challenges into practical, developer-friendly solutions. An interesting thread across his career is his focus on making intricate systems accessible—whether through managed lakehouse automation, on-call tooling, or codelab-style tutorials.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Marathi
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Github Skills (50)
kubernetes10
apache-spark10
spark10
google-cloud-dataproc10
lifecycle10
kubernetes-operator10
operator10
apache9
java9
editorjs9
incident-management7
json7
sql7
proto7
rpc7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
onehouseinc/spark-on-k8s-operator
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Kubernetes operator for managing the lifecycle of Apache Spark applications on Kubernetes.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
lifecyclek8s-operatorspark-applicationsapacheoperator
jumpingElephant/tutorials
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 13 days
javapythoncpptechnologies
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