# Nikunj Badjatya

> Engineering at Harness

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikunjbadjatya

* Building products and features from ground up.
* NIT Trichy grad, I possess more than 10 years of varied and rich professional software development experience.
* Currently working on a Cloud cost efficiency product @Harness. 
* Scalability and performance engineering in Cloud SaaS solutions.
* Experience in building Microservices and APIs.
* Experience in building complex data pipelines.
* Experience working with AWS, GCP and Azure, lift and shift of the product from data center to AWS, and with blue-green deployments.
* Experience with active-active model
* Experience with Identity and Access Management.
* Love hackathons

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Harness
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer II @ Harness
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Staff Software Development Engineer @ FireEye, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru Area, India

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ FireEye, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore
Member of CloudBU team at Bangalore. Developing backend for Fireeye's Email Threat Prevention over cloud service.

I am also a member of Fireeye SportsClub.

Key Learnings:
Building a Secure, Fault tolerant, Highly available, Performant and Large volume web app. Daily drivers include - Python (and Django), Redis, Identity and Access Management (IAM), OpenID Connect, MySQL.

### Senior Software Engineer @ EMC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
I was a member of VPLEX/VE engineering team at EMC. VPLEX/VE is a storage virtualization product, which is delivered as a linux based virtual machine targeted to run on VMware ESXi hypervisors. It brings the benefit of both public and private cloud for enterprises.

* Worked on three end to end product releases including 1.0 concept-to-market release. 

* Worked on and/or owned development of critical  areas as high availability, non disruptive product upgrade, expansion, deployment, configuration and platform in Python and Java language. This also include owning corresponding repositories/modules and their code reviews.

* I was also a member of BestPlaceToWork team at EMC. As part of this, organized several recreational and team building activities at BU level. 


Key Learnings:
Agile methodologies, High availability, Debugging, Fault tolerance, Software design, Code review, Software quality, Cloud terminologies, User experience, End to end product life cycle etc.

### Software Engineer @ EMC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### Software Engineer @ Sony
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore, India
I was a member of Embedded Linux Team at SISC. Worked on development and maintenance of Sony System C Library (SSlibc ,part of SONY CE Linux ) which is used in various Sony products.

Tools development:
I developed numerous tools based in Python. Tool to analyze SSlibc test execution results (3 variants), Tool to analyze NetBSD code commit mails etc.

Vulnerability analysis of SSlibc:
Analyze SSlibc for any programming defect like Buffer Overflow, Memory Leak etc. which are the major causes of breach in system security.


Key Learnings:
Systems programming, Debugging, Software design, Code review, Software quality, Security vulnerability, User experience etc.


## Education
### BTech in Instrumentation and Control
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/celebrate-tech

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Last updated: 2026-04-12