Summary
Nilesh S is a backend-focused Site Reliability Engineer based in Pune with 13 years of experience building and hardening production systems across startups and scale-ups. He blends systems programming, Linux/FreeBSD administration, and cloud-native practices to deliver observable, idempotent background processing and faster APIs, having migrated apps from DelayedJob to Sidekiq and halved DB query times through indexing. As a founding engineer and technical lead he’s shipped end-to-end backend solutions, led Rails upgrades and AWS IAM integrations, and routinely applies TDD and modern testing tools like Playwright. His career path spans hands-on server ops, networking and OpenWRT work to roles as Tech Lead and SRE, reflecting a rare comfort across both low-level infrastructure and application layers. Outside engineering he studies classical Indian instruments, an unusual discipline that hints at patience and meticulous attention to craft.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Prarambhik, Harmonium, Prarambhik, Harmonium at Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Tamil, Hindi, English, Marathi