Summary
Nitish Shandilya is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, multi-tiered distributed systems for payments and data platforms. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and has led end-to-end launches at eBay and Intuit, including migration of subscription billing and complex seller fee processing. Previously he drove performance and feature delivery in Db2 compression and storage at IBM, where an auto-compression feature he owned improved speed by 78%. Comfortable across cloud services, databases, C/C++, Java and Python, he blends deep systems engineering with a product-minded focus on practical value. He also has experience in life-critical medical device software and early ML-backed features from his Expedia internship, showing a pattern of applying emerging technologies to real-world problems. Colleagues know him for mentoring teams, untangling legacy codebases, and prioritizing impact over novelty.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi