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Nikhil Lal Pawa

SDE3 @ZoomInfo | Full-Stack Engineer | React · Next.js · TypeScript · Java/Spring Boot · GraphQL | IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

ZoomInfo
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building full-stack infrastructure and features at ZoomInfo (Next.js + Java/Spring Boot). • Authentication (Full-Stack): Built end-to-end login and profile features for a company-reviews platform — passwordless email-OTP login, Google OAuth, and Okta OIDC SSO, spanning a Next.js frontend and Java/Spring Boot backend. • Session & Token Security: Designed a stateless cookie-based JWT flow with HttpOnly/Secure access tokens and rotating, DB-backed refresh tokens with server-side revocation. • Abuse Prevention & Caching: Engineered concurrency-safe OTP rate limiting via atomic PostgreSQL upserts with email-enumeration-resistant responses and CSRF hardening; added Redis caching to cut repeated read load. • Cloud Deployments: Architected a PR-based preview environment platform on GCP using dynamic base URL resolution and Load Balancer routing — reducing regression issues by 30–40% and improving deployment reliability. • Navigation Infrastructure: Built reusable navigation components using directives and the Intersection Observer API to manage scroll state and optimize rendering across frontend interfaces. • QA Automation: Automated frontend validation workflows using Playwright — reducing manual QA effort by 25–30% and increasing deployment confidence across release cycles.
DISH Network Technologies
Feb 20214 yrs 11 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru

Led frontend architecture, design systems, and platform monetization for Sling TV and related consumer products. • Design Systems: Architected a design-to-code pipeline using the Figma API to transform design tokens into scalable SCSS variables — reducing UI development effort by 4–6 days per project and improving design consistency across teams. • GraphQL Architecture: Led migration from REST APIs to GraphQL using React, TypeScript, and Apollo Client — cutting overfetching by 40–60% and improving API response times by 25–30%. • Consumer Monetization: Designed and launched subscription management workflows for a large-scale consumer platform — driving 100K+ user interactions, 1K+ upsells, and reducing customer support dependency by 40–60%. • Sling TV Feature: Productized the "More Like This" recommendation engine at Dish CodeFest 2022 — shipped to production on Sling TV, driving 1.3M clicks across 3.6M impressions. • Testing Infrastructure: Built Jest-based testing workflows that improved frontend reliability and reduced regression issues across deployments. • Spot Award 2024: Recognized for driving monetization feature implementation across all 10ftJS clients.
DISH Network Technologies
Sep 20204 mosDec 2020

Bengaluru

• Implemented cross-platform deep linking workflows to streamline in-app navigation and improve accessibility across multiple application entry points.
GitHub
@kurama199
LeetCode
@nikhillalpawa

Nikhil’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

Bachelor’s Degree, electronics and instrumentation engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

20164 yrs2020

Super 30

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Headline

SDE3 @ZoomInfo | Full-Stack Engineer | React · Next.js · TypeScript · Java/Spring Boot · GraphQL | IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

About

Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years building large-scale web applications at ZoomInfo and DISH Network (Sling TV). Frontend: React · Next.js · TypeScript · Apollo GraphQL · Redux · SCSS Backend: Java · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL · Redis · JWT · OAuth2/OIDC (Okta) Cloud & Testing: GCP · Jenkins · Jest · Playwright What I've built: → End-to-end authentication for a company-reviews platform (Next.js + Spring Boot) — email-OTP login, Google OAuth, Okta SSO, with secure JWT sessions and rotating refresh tokens → PR-based preview environment platform on GCP — cut regression issues by 30–40% → REST → GraphQL migration with Apollo Client — reduced overfetching by 40–60%, improved API response times by 25–30% → Figma API → SCSS design token pipeline — saved 4–6 dev days per project → Subscription management platform — 100K+ user interactions, 1K+ upsells, 40–60% reduction in customer support load → "More Like This" recommendation feature (Dish CodeFest 2022) — shipped to Sling TV, drove 1.3M clicks across 3.6M impressions Spot Award 2024 · LeetCode Knight (Top 5.8%, 600+ problems) · IIT (ISM) Dhanbad · Super 30

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

Work experience

SDE 3 at ZoomInfo, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building full-stack infrastructure and features at ZoomInfo (Next.js + Java/Spring Boot). • Authentication (Full-Stack): Built end-to-end login and profile features for a company-reviews platform — passwordless email-OTP login, Google OAuth, and Okta OIDC SSO, spanning a Next.js frontend and Java/Spring Boot backend. • Session & Token Security: Designed a stateless cookie-based JWT flow with HttpOnly/Secure access tokens and rotating, DB-backed refresh tokens with server-side revocation. • Abuse Prevention & Caching: Engineered concurrency-safe OTP rate limiting via atomic PostgreSQL upserts with email-enumeration-resistant responses and CSRF hardening; added Redis caching to cut repeated read load. • Cloud Deployments: Architected a PR-based preview environment platform on GCP using dynamic base URL resolution and Load Balancer routing — reducing regression issues by 30–40% and improving deployment reliability. • Navigation Infrastructure: Built reusable navigation components using directives and the Intersection Observer API to manage scroll state and optimize rendering across frontend interfaces. • QA Automation: Automated frontend validation workflows using Playwright — reducing manual QA effort by 25–30% and increasing deployment confidence across release cycles.

Senior Software Engineer at DISH Network Technologies, Feb 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Led frontend architecture, design systems, and platform monetization for Sling TV and related consumer products. • Design Systems: Architected a design-to-code pipeline using the Figma API to transform design tokens into scalable SCSS variables — reducing UI development effort by 4–6 days per project and improving design consistency across teams. • GraphQL Architecture: Led migration from REST APIs to GraphQL using React, TypeScript, and Apollo Client — cutting overfetching by 40–60% and improving API response times by 25–30%. • Consumer Monetization: Designed and launched subscription management workflows for a large-scale consumer platform — driving 100K+ user interactions, 1K+ upsells, and reducing customer support dependency by 40–60%. • Sling TV Feature: Productized the "More Like This" recommendation engine at Dish CodeFest 2022 — shipped to production on Sling TV, driving 1.3M clicks across 3.6M impressions. • Testing Infrastructure: Built Jest-based testing workflows that improved frontend reliability and reduced regression issues across deployments. • Spot Award 2024: Recognized for driving monetization feature implementation across all 10ftJS clients.

Software Engineer Intern at DISH Network Technologies, Sep 2020 - Dec 2020 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, • Implemented cross-platform deep linking workflows to streamline in-app navigation and improve accessibility across multiple application entry points.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, electronics and instrumentation engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

Super 30

Public links

github: https://github.com/kurama199

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/nikhillalpawa