Nitin Gera
Lead Software Engineer at DoorDash
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNitin Gera is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems, most recently driving marketing technology for Prime Video and now leading engineering at DoorDash. He has designed platforms processing hundreds of millions of messages daily and scaled systems from 10K to 60K TPS by diagnosing bottlenecks and optimizing streaming architectures with Apache Flink and time-series aggregation. Comfortable translating product needs into technical plans, he has led and mentored teams to higher velocity and promotions while maintaining exactly-once semantics and backpressure control in production data pipelines. Based in Seattle and trained at IIT(BHU), he blends deep systems engineering with hands-on implementation experience across backend services, deployment automation, and performance tuning—often surfacing non-obvious trade-offs between correctness and throughput.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
All India Senior School Certificate Science and Mathematics, All India Senior School Certificate Science and Mathematics at Ramanlal Shorawala Public schoolB.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
chat9
python8
slack8
web-application8
react-native7
socket-io7
nodejs7
javascript7
websocket7
apache7
zulip7
react7
collaboration7
electron6
typescript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nitingera1996/techteampractice
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
reppracticingreact
SimplyOm/PiRail
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 months
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