# Nitin Kumar

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nitinkumar

Detail-oriented and passionate software engineer experienced in building full-stack web applications with React, Node, Redux, Express, REST API, and PostgreSQL. Feel free to reach out on anything software related - I'd love to connect!

➟ Recent talks include "Kubernetes/Docker Swarm: An Introduction" | Single Sprout Speaker Series, July 2021
➟ Check out my Github: https://github.com/realNitinKumar

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Bring a Trailer Media LLC
Jan 2023 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Semcasting, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | North Andover, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ KafkaSentinel
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Developed a web application capable of connecting to a Kafka cluster through a user-provided broker URI, displaying real-time data throughput and cluster metadata regarding brokers, topics, partitions, producers and consumers.  
- Integrated React components and chart.js in order to deliver a clean, scalable, modularized frontend.
- Utilized third party API KafkaJS to retrieve key cluster data regarding brokers, topics, producers, and consumers through the instantiation of KafkaJS instances and methods.
- Configured robust Express backend utilizing models, routers, and controllers to efficiently manage communication among KafkaSentinel frontend/backend, KafkaJS API, and user’s Kafka cluster.  
- Implemented Websockets to establish a bidirectional connection to efficiently send real-time data from backend KafkaJS event emitter monitoring to frontend visualization of cluster information.
- Engineered accessible graphical user interface using React Hooks to modify and hold state to enforce one-way data flow from parent components to child components while maintaining minimal renders of all components.
- Leveraged Docker to containerized application in order to provide a lightweight, portable, deployment environment.
- Prioritized group PR code review to optimize code quality and transparency, providing version control and consistency while allowing all team members to gain experience across the application’s code base.
- Led daily standups and managed the agile development process via Miro to maintain consistency in team efforts and to gather regular updates in order to hit deadlines on a tight release schedule.

### PaerUp | Pair programming partner finder @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Integrated OAuth to allow users to login with Github and provide PaerUp with access to user authorization tokens.
- Engineered middleware to handle database interaction requests, and to send API fetch requests to Github and process incoming data to be returned to frontend.
- Implemented unit and component testing with Jest and Enzyme to follow test driven development methodology.

### GreenRank | Ecological footprint survey and rankings @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed backend utilizing Node and Express to efficiently handle requests to specified endpoints from the frontend, and to send back properly formatted data as a response using the model, controller, router paradigm.
- Leveraged bcrypt to store encrypted OAuth token in browser cookies, giving frontend and backend secure access to user authentication credentials.
- Implemented frontend utilizing React, React Router, and a javascript charting library to provide a responsive, user-friendly, informative interface.

### Bandmates | Musical collaboration platform @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Designed SQL database to utilize relational nature of user profile and musical instrument/genre data and wrote a variety of queries to efficiently read/write/update information to database.
- Configured Express server to handle API/HTTP requests to various endpoints, modularizing backend requests through the use of middleware design architecture.
- Utilized React Router to implement client-side routing, providing a seamless single page application user experience devoid of page refreshing.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Central Connecticut State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01