# Nitish G. > Backend & Cloud Platform Engineer | Distributed Systems | Kubernetes | IoT & Live Streaming Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nitishg With over 10 years of experience in software engineering, I bring expertise in developing scalable cloud systems, IoT solutions, and distributed architectures. As a Staff Software Engineer at Lucid Motors, I am committed to empowering the future of electric mobility through innovative technology solutions. My focus is on creating secure, resilient, and scalable platforms that align with the organization’s mission to revolutionize the automotive industry. By fostering collaboration and mentorship, I aim to drive impactful solutions that enhance user experience and system performance. At Lucid Motors, I have been instrumental in designing secure cloud services for real-time mobile-to-car communication, IoT data exchange, and video streaming. My work includes architecting multi-cloud Kubernetes cluster management, automating infrastructure with tools like Terraform, and developing model-driven observability systems for anomaly detection. Collaborating across teams, I support the delivery of robust backend platforms that drive scalability, reliability, and innovation. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Lucid Motors Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States - Built secure, scalable cloud services enabling real-time mobile-to-car communication, IoT data exchange, and low-latency video streaming. - Architected multi-cloud Kubernetes cluster management with Cluster-API, ArgoCD (app-of-apps), and Helm; automated infra with Terraform & Atlantis. - Developed model-driven observability systems for anomaly detection, insights, and faster incident resolution. - Designed resilient distributed systems with robust APIs, data models, and third-party integrations, improving scalability and system health. - Mentored engineers and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver backend platform solutions aligned with long-term product goals. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Gigamon Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | California, United States - Design, implement, build, test and deploy scalable systems to store, process and retrieve high-rate event streams - Design and hands-on for ETL, enrichment, alerting, and indexing high-rate event streams solution ### Senior Software Engineer @ GE Current, a Daintree company Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada Web Services (Backend + FrontEnd) Developer in IOT domain who create and supports the cloud platform, services, hardware and systems ### Software Developer @ Morgan Stanley Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Software Developer @ Dealflo Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada ### Technical Business Analyst Intern @ BOMBARDIER Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • To conceptualize, develop and implement access databases with the schemas that incorporate business requirements. • Make front-end tools and interfaces for automation with reporting capabilities. • Attach front-end and report with the access databases based on the requirements. • Link SAP Datasets to Excel sheets to provide team members with campaign visibility in an organized fashion. • Maintain a strong understanding of the data flow from internal Bombardier departments and vendors, through to customer communications. • Understand Business Analysis with supervisor and peers. • Plan, document and lead business analysis activity, including report production. • To engage different teams or team members for understanding project requirements. • To monitor program changes that might reporting tools. • To create and present executive overviews and dashboards, with recommendations for future projects. • To create reports with capability to Forecasts, targeting models and planning dashboards. • To provide estimates for scope, scheduling and resources required. • Manage client-supplied inputs and campaign work flow to ensure timely and error-free data. • Develop partnerships with business owners and account coordinators to ensure overall project success (business drivers, technical capability/functionality, and deployment and adoption timelines). ### Cloud Support Engineer @ Zscaler Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 • Monitoring Zscaler Cloud Data Centres via Nagios, Linu/UNIX production environments, preferably as part of an online service provider environment. • Cloud post upgrade Sanity Tests to ensure that everything is healthy. • Helped Clients with PAC(Proxy Auto-Config) file deployments. • Troubleshooting and resolving escalated issues related to Traffic Forwarding issues, Internet Outage, Slowness, and Authentication like AD, SAML, OKTA, Pingone Kerberos and GUI. • Performed SPAM investigation and email recovery on email security. • Strong working knowledge of linux/UNIX/FreeBSD and core network system services such as DNS, SMTP, syslog, packet filters. • Monitoring GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) Tunnels and Debugging compatibility issues with public website using Web developer tools ( like HTTP headers capture, HTML Validator, HTTPFox ) • Built customer like lab environment by configuring VMWare ESXi, installing Microsoft AD, ADFS and configuring CISCO GRE routers. • Daily monitoring & debugging of servers for successful nightly backups, performance utilization and error logging and correcting. • Assisting Network and System Administrators of the customers with issues related to their network and further troubleshoot and analyse packets using packet trace(tcpdump), DNS, SPF & MX, LDAP and SAML(ADFS related issues that might manifest issues in the Zscaler Cloud. • Categorisation of the URL’s after inspecting malicious content and further reclassifies them. • Resetting Websites reputation based on the security tools lookup. • Worked through Salesforce and ZenDesk ticketing system to handle an average of 20 tickets per day. • Built internal mobile application and website using HTML5, Java Script and CSS that can work on Android, IOS and Blackberry devices and also employs native-app-like experience inside a browser. ### Active Member @ IETA Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Applied Computer Science Concordia University ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering Maharishi Markandeshwar University ## Contact & Social - 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