Nishant Agarwal
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishant Agarwal is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience building resilient, distributed systems at SignalFx and Splunk. He specializes in system architecture, root cause analysis, and data-driven approaches that measurably improve robustness and customer satisfaction. Rising through engineering roles since 2012, he combines hands-on implementation with leadership in delivering production-grade observability and telemetry solutions. His academic background (MS in Computer Science from University of Utah) and early teaching roles reflect a strong foundation in both theory and practical engineering. Known for advocating quality and precision, he bridges analytical rigor with collaborative execution to solve complex reliability problems. Colleagues rely on him for designing systems that reduce incidents and accelerate time-to-resolution in large-scale cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at JAIN CollegeThe University of UtahHigh School Science, High School Science at Birla Public School, Pilani
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (42)
jenkins-api-plugin9
integrations9
metadata9
signalfx9
actionscript8
jenkins-plugin8
collectd8
csharp7
thrift7
idl7
codahale-metrics7
jenkins7
dart6
daemon6
network-server6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nishantagarwal1990/NLPCourseWork
Dec 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
nishantagarwal1990/MachineLearningCourseWork
Dec 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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