Headline

Software Engineer | Backend Engineering | Go Expert

About

Backend-focused Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building production Go services and distributed systems. I design scalable REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs; build event-driven workflows with Kafka; and optimize data access with Redis and SQLC. Experienced with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana, I focus on reliable delivery, observability, performance, and business-critical operational platforms.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

kiro

mcp

openai

Work experience

Software Engineer at nurture.farm, Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, • Architected FieldForce, a Go workforce-management platform serving 10,000+ field agents, partners, and managers; built REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs for core operational workflows. • Owned architecture decisions across Go services, defining API contracts, SQLC data access, goroutine/channel concurrency, Kafka event workflows, and Redis caching. • Led technical design and code reviews; mentored engineers on Go service patterns, API design, testing practices, and production debugging. • Improved API response time by 35% through query optimization, caching, and concurrent processing; maintained 99.9% availability and reduced MTTR by 40% with Prometheus/Grafana. • Owned Kubernetes production delivery and incident resolution, partnering with product and QA through design, release, rollback, and post-incident improvements.

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, University of Mumbai

Public links

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/nikhildprasad