Sanath Nair
Staff Backend Engineer II at Coupang
Berlin, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSanath Nair is a Staff Backend Engineer with about 11–15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native backend systems across e-commerce and adtech. He has led technical strategy, cross-team architecture reviews, and operational excellence programs at companies including Zalando, Rakuten, Societe Generale, Google, and Coupang. Comfortable both setting direction and shipping code, he blends Java-first backend expertise, microservices and API design with TDD/BDD practices and production tooling like Docker, Jenkins, RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch. At Google he earned trust as a Java Readability approver and at Zalando he shaped partner-facing fulfillment platforms—evidence of his mix of hands-on craft and architectural influence. He’s an experienced mentor who accelerates junior engineers and improves developer workflows, and his long consulting stints show he adapts quickly to new domains and constraints. Based in Berlin with roots in India, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a habit of proposing reusable, configurable components that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BTech Information Technology, BTech Information Technology at Ganpat UniversityHSC Science with Computers, HSC Science with Computers at Rajhans VidyalayaJunior School IX, Junior School IX at SBOA Public School
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
Github Skills (13)
open-data7
architecture5
datasets5
data-science4
api3
api-client3
java3
ads3
client-library3
search-api2
google-ads-api2
google2
search-engine1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
icedhacker/architecture-katas
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Architecture Katas
Contributions:42 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
katasarchitecture
icedhacker/google-code-jam
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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