Sahil Nagpal
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSahil Nagpal is a senior backend engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable data platforms and services, currently at Stripe after senior roles at StockX and Uber. He specializes in backend systems, search and real-time data (notably Elasticsearch at OfBusiness) and has a strong foundation in both relational and NoSQL databases. Early in his career he shipped data-heavy tooling for enterprises and contributed to infrastructure at Uber’s Bangalore data platform. An active open-source contributor, he improved Krita’s image filters during Google Summer of Code work, blending low-level C++/Qt image processing with UI refinements. Comfortable across the stack, Sahil combines production-grade engineering at large tech companies with hands-on problem solving rooted in developer-first tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
English, Hindi, Punjabi
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
hiveql9
qt9
hive9
ui-design8
html6
elasticsearch6
datastax-enterprise6
javascript6
android6
angularjs6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily focused on enhancing the Krita application by implementing and refining color adjustment filters. Their contributions include creating and modifying features related to color balance, including midtones, shadows, and highlights, as well as the Dodge and Burn filters. The user's changes involved code modifications within the color space extensions and filter implementations. Additionally, the user appears to have been involved in UI/UX improvements related to the filter configurations.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
sahilnagpal/report-parser
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
reportparser
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