NITIN BANSAL

Principal Engineer — Distributed Systems

PROFILE

OVERVIEW

12+ years building and running large-scale distributed systems around high-volume data pipelines and real-time processing. Experienced in designing platforms that handle billions of daily events while leading engineering teams and shipping production systems end-to-end.

CORE STACK

SKILLS

Languages

Java • Node.js • Python

Databases

BigQuery • Cassandra • MySQL • PostgreSQL • Redis • MongoDB • Elasticsearch

Messaging

Kafka

Infra

Kubernetes • Docker • AWS • GCP • CI/CD (GitLab Actions & ArgoCD)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 — PRESENT

WebEngage — SSE & Principal Engineer 2013 – 2024

Built Kafka -> BigQuery pipeline processing 5 billion+ events per day in BigQuery and Cassandra.
Worked on user profile pipeline processing 800M+ updates daily in BigQuery.
Developed and maintained Cassandra based personaliation token store serving 100's of millions of campaign deliveries daily.
Developed Redis-based real-time campaign performance reporting pipeline processing billions of event daily.
Led detailed study, PoC and initial migration pipelines for moving our 100+ TB BigQuery warehouse to StarRocks.
Worked on a lot more of distributed systems from ideation to production in close collaboration with Product, QA, CTO, and DevOps.
Mentored and managed teams of 3-12 engineers across seniority levels (freshers to 7+ years).
Involvement in architecture related discussions and design.
Finally, general day-to-day development across backend systems and infrastructure.

Apster Technologies — Co-Founder 2011 – 2012

Built remote-managed outdoor advertising platform.
Developed tablet-based restaurant ordering system.

Longcheer Technology — Software Engineer 2010 – 2011

Developed mobile features on MTK platform.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

OPEN SOURCE

DB Stress Bench — database load-testing framework
Blueprint — Java templating engine
Verdict / Verdict-Java — query-syntax condition engines
Guardian — retries, circuit breakers & fallbacks
Mock OpenAI Server — local OpenAI API emulator
ZenQuery.app — natural language data query desktop app

EDUCATION

ACADEMICS

CDAC Pune

Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded Systems

2008 – 2009

MJPRU Bareilly

B.Tech Electrical, Electronics & Communications

2004 – 2008

Distributed systems • Data pipelines • High-scale infrastructure

AVAILABLE FOR ARCHITECTURE / PLATFORM / LEAD / BACKEND ROLES