Nitin Kumar Mangalam

About Nitin Kumar Mangalam

Staff Engineer at DoorDash focused on building large-scale, reliable systems that power Dasher earnings and pay experiences. Over the past five years, I’ve designed and delivered multiple high-impact platforms—from re-architecting core reliability frameworks to launching new earning models used by millions of Dashers worldwide.My work focuses on distributed systems, data reliability, and platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on designing scalable architectures that strike a balance between performance, transparency, and operational simplicity.Core expertise: Distributed Systems • Platform Architecture • Data Reliability • Scalability • Observability • Java • Kotlin • Spring • AWS • DynamoDB

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   DoorDash

   Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading the design of the next-generation Pay Platform, a unified and extensible system that powers consistent, transparent, and scalable earnings calculations across diverse markets and product lines.Setting long-term technical direction for reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in the earnings and reconciliation ecosystem, while mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence across teams.

Education

• RV College Of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science

  2010 — 2014

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  High School (CBSE), 95.4% in 10th Standard and 93% in 12th Standard

  1998 — 2010

• Stony Brook University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2018 — 2019

Skills

• Java
• Core Java
• Mysql
• Windows Server
• Computer Science
• C
• Programming
• Algorithms
• C#
• Spring Framework
• Sql
• Linux
• Software Development
• C++
• Flex
• Design
• Windows
• Html
• Eclipse
• Vmware
• Developers
• Databases
• Esxi
• Data Structures
• Css
• Actionscript
• Web Services