Summary
Vijay Nayar is a Berlin-based software consultant and founder with 12 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, production-grade systems for fintech, mapping, and SaaS startups. He converts vague business ideas and sprawling legacy call-stacks into precise requirements and robust architectures, having led migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices and delivered multi-thousand percent performance gains. As CTO/Principal Engineer he defined OKRs, SDLCs, and evaluation systems while building Java/Spring and Kafka-based backends, and more recently engineered ERP-ready accounting journals and an 11,000% cost-allocation speedup for a hedge fund client. He’s comfortable across the stack—systems, APIs, CI/CD, infra-as-code, auth/SSO, and client demos—using technologies from Kubernetes and AWS to D, Vibe.d, Envoy, and Flutter. An entrepreneur who prototypes quickly, he also created mapping and P2P demos and a live Google Maps integration, demonstrating a knack for turning prototypes into scalable products. Not obviously stated: he pairs deep low-level performance tuning with product-level governance, so technical decisions are both fast and auditable.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology-Manhattan
English, German