Nitish Kalan is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, production-grade services and is currently on Stripe’s Service Ecosystem and Sustainability team. He previously drove large-scale, real-time features and led the multi-DC active-active design and implementation at Flipkart, reducing DB load dramatically and enabling cross-platform loyalty integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he routinely authors HLD/LLD, mentors engineers, and owns end-to-end delivery from PRD to production and NFR validation. He has a strong security mindset—having found and helped fix critical privilege escalation and token-exposure issues—and has been recognized repeatedly for execution excellence. An IIT Kanpur MS graduate with teaching experience in ML, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic system design and operational discipline.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Class XII Science, Class XII Science at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Shivaji University
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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