Nahush Kulkarni

About Nahush Kulkarni

Senior Software Engineer with proven success in designing, building, and scaling Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) for enhanced Developer Experience (DX) and system reliability. I\'ve delivered solutions that significantly reduced hosting costs, accelerated key processes (e.g, client application processing by 1600%, Docker builds by 20x, ML runtimes by 4x), and spearheaded initiatives in CI/CD, cloud architecture (AWS), automation, and security. My technical leadership and hands-on expertise make me a strong contributor to complex platform engineering challenges.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Rappi

   Jun 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Orchestrated platforms engineering operations to deliver robust, efficient, and scalable infrastructure• Asynchronized long-running APIs to support large transactions efficiently• Implemented mutual exclusion zones, monitoring, rate limits, and signal handling in Celery• Reengineered the Docker Swarm setup process to significantly accelerate stack deployment• Established an on-instance Docker health monitoring system to capture events more efficiently• Improved index creation process, reducing the runtime of crucial machine learning processes by 4x• Performed comprehensive load testing to identify performance characteristics and enhance uptime• Integrated RDS support for higher user transaction concurrency• Enabled SES support into the product and pipelines, allowing for higher email volumes• Incorporated OOM and low storage handling into crucial ML processes.• Enhanced the notification system to promptly notify developers of critical system issues• Refined databases, improving query performance and reducing size by 30% each• Optimized Docker image build times by 20x with multi-stage builds, caching, and better layering

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree

  2018 — 2022