About

Nitin Sutrave is a highly skilled and experienced Software Development Engineer with a passion for building scalable backend applications. With over 6 years of professional experience, Nitin has developed expertise in technologies like Node.js, VoltDB, Apache Spark, and Apache Cassandra. He is a Distributed Systems Enthusiast who loves exploring newer technologies while staying educated about the ins and outs of the ones he knows. Currently working as an SDE 3 at Dream11, Nitin has led a cross-functional team to develop a service that incentivizes users to credit money to their Dream11 accounts, improving the new user conversion funnel by 10%. He has also analyzed shortcomings in the existing system to re-architecture the rank calculation service to handle a 250% increase in participating teams while reducing the calculation speed by 90%. Nitin has developed an ETL pipeline to distribute discount coupons to 10 million users in under a minute, improving revenue metrics and enabling the product team to revive inactive users. He has also written a batch job to generate PDF files for every fantasy contest, improving the users’ trust in the system and reducing customer queries. Prior to Dream11, Nitin has worked as a Software Engineer at Crowdfire and as a Software Developer at TinyOwl. At Crowdfire, he developed a service by integrating Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest APIs, enabling users to publish on multiple social platforms with a single click. At TinyOwl, he implemented a service to maintain the availability of logistics partners and assign deliveries accordingly, thereby reducing the number of canceled orders. Nitin has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Software Engineer with over 8.78 years of relevant experience and has expertise in Software Engineering, Javascript, Spark, NodeJS, Backend, Cassandra, Kafka, ETL, MySQL, SQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Research Scientist, Microservices, and more. Nitin is dedicated, focused, believes in teamwork, and has the attitude of getting things done.