Nitish Mishra

About Nitish Mishra

Backend-Focused Full Stack Engineer with 3+ years of experience building and scaling…

Experience

1. Mern Stack Developer

   Nuclay

   Oct 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Migrated GiveCentral platform (serving millions of users across the US) from legacy stack to Next.js and Node.js, significantly improving performance, scalability, and user experience.Led the development of a fully dynamic Donation System (Themes 4, 5, and 6), delivering within aggressive timelines and setting up complete development & testing environments on AWS.Automated deployments with Docker & AWS EC2, and optimized storage using AWS S3 & Lambda, achieving 99.9% uptime.Introduced a CI/CD pipeline into the product development workflow, enabling frictionless handoff between development and QA, boosting team productivity by 20%.Built and optimized REST APIs with Express.js, integrated secure payment systems, and implemented Redis caching, reducing database load by 40%.Implemented Winston logging with AWS CloudWatch, enabling real-time error tracking and system performance monitoring.Configured SNS alerts and Slack notifications for critical events, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 30%.Refactored legacy codebase, introduced coding standards, and mentored junior developers, resulting in a 30% reduction in tech debt.Actively contributed to code reviews, ensuring clean, maintainable, and scalable code quality across the team.