Backend Engineer · India

Nishita
Kadian

SDE-1 @ Swiggy · High-Scale Systems · Microservices

I build backend systems that handle millions of requests per minute. At Swiggy, I've reduced downstream traffic by 65%+, shipped product launches to millions of users, and owned peak-traffic reliability at scale.

LinkedIn → LeetCode → GitHub → HackerRank →
3×
SwiggStar Award
338K
RPM reduced by 65%
800+
LeetCode problems
9.2
CGPA, TIET
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Experience

Aug 2024 — Present
Swiggy
Remote, India
★ SwiggStar Award (3×)
Partner Rewards, IPL 2025, Deal Rush
Software Development Engineer 1
  • Redesigned architecture using DAG to optimise data aggregation and resolve circular dependencies.
  • Architected an encoded data-aggregation contract eliminating redundant cross-service fanout, reducing downstream calls by 65% (338K → 120K RPM).
  • Designed backend validation logic enabling app-side caching, reducing downstream traffic by 66% (~200K RPM) with 70% client adoption.
  • Shipped product launches end-to-end, owning backend from design to go-live:
    • Swiggy Sixes — 40% order spike in the first hour
    • Swiggy Black — premium tier launch
    • Partner, Student & Corporate Rewards — 10× signup growth
    • Deal Rush — drove a 2% overall platform order lift and 20% uplift in orders
  • Cut noisy error log rate by ~99% (80K+ → 500 errors), eliminating cascading exceptions.
  • Owned New Year's Eve peak-traffic readiness and incident mitigation, ensuring zero downtime during a major user onboarding surge.
  • Built and optimised Grafana observability dashboards, improving load time by 84% (32s → 5s).
  • Enhanced on-call tooling with automation and AI summarization; authored HLDs, LLDs, and API documentation.
  • Mentored 2 aSDEs on backend engineering practices.
  • Conducted 15+ technical interviews including campus hiring and SDE-2 problem solving rounds.
Dec 2023 — Aug 2024
Stealth Startup
Remote, India
Software Engineer
  • Designed and implemented a complete JWT-based authentication system with RESTful APIs.
  • Architected a webhook-driven real-time WhatsApp messaging backend platform.
  • Established secure deployment pipeline: Docker, AWS infrastructure, and AWS Secrets Manager.
Jan 2023 — Jul 2023
Addverb Technologies
Noida, India
Embedded Systems Engineer
  • Ported Intel Up2 → TI TDA4VM for AGVs with Linux kernel and driver-level changes.
  • Contributed to ROS motion stack development and hardware bring-up.
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Skills

Languages
C++ Python Golang Java SQL C TypeScript
Frameworks
Flask FastAPI Django Spring Boot
Cloud & Tools
AWS Docker PostgreSQL Grafana Git Linux
Concepts
Microservices System Design DSA Distributed Systems OS Computer Networks
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Projects

Open Source · 2024
Obsidian Google Drive Sync

Built a community plugin for Obsidian that syncs notes to Google Drive, preserving note hierarchy across devices. Implemented CRUD operations using Google Drive API v3.

TypeScript Google Drive v3 API Obsidian Plugin
View on GitHub →
Full Stack · LeetCode-style · 2023
Code Judge

Coding challenge platform modelled on LeetCode with user auth, session management, a fancy live code editor with syntax highlighting, and submission tracking. Dockerized and hosted on AWS.

Django Python Docker AWS
View on GitHub →
Capstone · Deep Learning · 2023
High-Resolution FPM via Deep Learning

UNet-based network for Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy, recombines multi-image stacks into high-resolution, wide-field samples. Can be used to get high-resolution samples of Malaria slides.

Python MATLAB UNet Deep Learning
View Report →
Backend · 2023
MovieExplorer

RESTful movie recommendation service backed by cleaned Grouplens data in PostgreSQL. Tackles decision fatigue from endless scrolling, recommends movies by genre and highest IMDb rating, with user login and a watched-list so you never get recommended something you've already seen.

Flask PostgreSQL Python HTML/CSS/JS
View on GitHub →
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Achievements

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SwiggStar Award (3×) Recognised at Swiggy for "Move Fast, Break Barriers & Deliver Results" — for Partner, Student & Corporate Rewards, IPL 2025, and Deal Rush.
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Runners-Up — Digital Health Hackathon 2.0 Issued by Digital Health Hackathon 2.0 organized by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. · Jan 2023. Leveraged and integrated Google Vision API to rate medicinal posters on different parameters to help Dr. Reddy's make better targeted advertisements for their customers.
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TIET Merit Scholarship (2×) Awarded for academic excellence — CGPA 9.39 (2020–21) & 9.22 (2021–22).
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800+ LeetCode Problems Consistent competitive programming practice, solutions hosted on GitHub. LeetCode profile → · Solutions →
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HackerRank Gold Badges & Certifications Earned maximum star gold badges in Problem Solving, C++ and SQL. Certified in Problem Solving (Basic) → and Intermediate →.
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Hackathon Participation Innovaccer HackerCamp, Uber HackTag 2.0, Flipkart Grid 4.0, Tata Imagination Challenge, and more.
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Certifications Harvard CS50, Java Fundamentals (Scaler), Spring Boot (Amigoscode), HackerRank Problem Solving.
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State-level Taekwondo Gold Medalist Chandigarh State Open + Education Dept. State Schools Tournament.
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Contact

Let's build something
worth talking about.

Open to backend-heavy SDE-2 roles at product companies. If your team works on high-scale systems, I'd love to chat.

LinkedIn → GitHub → LeetCode → HackerRank →