Nishant Thapliyal
Software Engineer 2 at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNishant Thapliyal is a Software Engineer 2 based in Amsterdam with 11 years of professional experience and eight years focused on startup and product engineering, currently building scalable systems at Booking.com. He is fluent in Java, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript, and has shipped services across monolith, microservices, and serverless architectures on AWS. His background spans hands-on backend and full-stack work, including replacing crash-reporting tooling and improving edge-case handling in the notable Catroid Android project. A former CTO and long-tenured engineer at 3CLogic, he combines product-minded engineering with a strong academic foundation in Computer Science from UPES. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who turns tricky numerical and null-safety bugs into robust, production-ready fixes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 85.2 % (3.26/4), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 85.2 % (3.26/4) at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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27answers
9questions
excel
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
android10
java10
testing10
excel9
crashlytics9
git6
aws-lambda6
amazon-iam6
win32com6
amazon-web-services6
ssh-keys6
python6
ssh6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Catrobat/Catroid
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Writing programs on an Android device without prior knowledge.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 37 PRs, 74 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nishant primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the Catroid project, particularly addressing issues related to numerical comparisons (-0 and 0, NaN comparisons), and improving code simplification for existing functionalities such as "ComeToFront" and "MoveNSteps". They also contributed to the integration of a crash reporting system by replacing Firebase with Crashlytics and added corresponding test files. Moreover, the user made improvements in image disposal and null value exception handling.
knowledgeandroidkotlinprogramsjava
nishantt95/TokenService
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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