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title: "Nikhil Kapoor - Engineering Manager in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Nikhil Kapoor, Engineering Leader | Java, Microservices & Cloud | Driving Scalable Platforms & High-Performing Teams based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude."
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# Nikhil Kapoor on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Java, Microservices & Cloud \| Driving Scalable Platforms & High\-Performing Teams

## About

Engineering leader with 12 years in software engineering, including 5\+ years leading teams of 10–12 engineers building cloud\-native platforms at scale\. I own technical vision and end\-to\-end delivery for multi\-tenant Java platforms serving millions of requests a month — architecture, non\-functional requirements, and production stability\. Recent work spans event\-driven systems with Kafka processing millions of events a day, decomposing a legacy monolith into Spring Boot microservices with a React front end, and building a shared API platform that saved \~500 engineering hours a year across business units\. Jio Certified Cursor AI Developer — Ive embedded AI\-assisted workflows into our SDLC through multi\-agent architecture, agent skills, and rules\. Core: Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, React, Node\.js, MongoDB\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

Blackbox AI

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at Jio Platforms Limited \(JPL\), Oct 2018 \- Present · 8 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Lead a team of 10–12 engineers building and operating mission\-critical Java platforms — owning architecture, delivery commitments, and production stability\. • Built the Central Platform, a multi\-tenant shared\-services platform delivering notification, authentication, and API capabilities across Jio business units — saved \~500 engineering hours/year through reuse\. • Architected real\-time Kafka pipelines processing millions of events/day, cutting processing latency by 40%\. • Leading migration of a legacy Liferay DXP 7\.4 monolith to Spring Boot microservices with a React front end\. • Architected QSYS 2\.0, an enterprise ticketing platform handling 5,000\+ daily queries with SLA tracking, escalation workflows, and high availability\. • Sustained 99\.9% uptime for services handling millions of requests/month\.

Software Engineer at Compassites Software Solutions, Jul 2017 \- Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Associate Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics, Jul 2014 \- Jun 2017 · 3 yrs, Ahmedabad Area, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Engineering, Gujarat Technological University \(GTU\)

Higher Secondary Certificate\(HSC\), PCM, Kendriya Vidhyalaya

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