Nitish Rane

About Nitish Rane

I am a Senior Software Engineer with ~7 years of experience designing and maintaining scalable features in fast-paced, customer-centric environments.Currently, I work at Ingram Micro, where I contribute to building and scaling backend systems that support business-critical workflows. Previously at Tesla, I owned and delivered high-impact backend API services powering large-scale financial and incentive platforms, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.Across my career, I have led end-to-end development of event-driven systems, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines, working on products used by millions of users.I have strong hands-on experience with Python, API development (REST/GraphQL), Pub/Sub–based architectures, databases and ORMs, caching, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems (GCP). My work emphasizes robust system design, including fault tolerance, observability, security, and long-term maintainability.I enjoy solving complex problems at scale, improving system reliability, and building platforms that empower other engineering teams. I’m naturally curious, enjoy technical discussions, and continuously keep myself up to date with evolving technologies and best practices in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.Feel free to reach out for collaboration, technical discussions, mentorship, or new opportunities.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Ingram Micro

   Apr 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Led end-to-end architectural redesign of a critical data synchronization pipeline, migrating from cron-based VM scripts to a Pub/Sub-driven real-time system, improving scalability, resilience, and observability.• Established centralized observability using Datadog logs and metrics, enabling faster root-cause analysis and proactive monitoring.• Designed and implemented comprehensive failure handling, rate limiting, message versioning, automated failed-sync logging and retries, ensuring near real-time data synchronization and improving post-deployment system reliability.• Drove delivery by partnering cross-functionally with engineering, database, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and external teams, executing complex initiatives with minimal guidance.• Raised engineering standards by large-scale code refactoring using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot), and by introducing unit testing, structured PR workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated code quality and security scans, and comprehensive documentation.• Resolved critical production issues for high-priority features through deep technical root-cause analysis and cross-team collaboration.• Built and maintained scalable Python-based ETL pipelines and Pub/Sub data sync systems, processing millions of records.• Contributed to designing optimized database schemas and building queries to process and retrieve millions of records.• Mentored and supervised two junior software engineers, conducting code reviews, fostering skill development, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology

  2011 — 2014

• George Mason University

  Master’s Degree (1 year), Computer Science

  2016 — 2017

• Santa Clara University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2018 — 2020

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Html
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Web Development
• C++
• Problem Solving
• Angularjs
• Sql
• Linux
• Mysql
• Android Development
• Typescript
• Software Development
• Css
• Javascript
• Java
• C
• Programming
• Mean Stack
• Objective-C
• Perl