
Nitesh Malviya
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Toptal member since August 9, 2022
Nitesh is a technical architect and hands-on senior full-stack engineer with 18+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems. He specializes in microservices, event-driven, and serverless architectures, and delivered an enterprise platform for 7-Eleven supporting 18,000+ stores and a SaaS product for a fintech company. He is an AWS Solutions Architect and a MongoDB Certified Developer who leverages AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
Portfolio
Experience
- Node.js - 7 years
- MySQL - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Serverless Architecture - 5 years
- React - 5 years
- Microservices Architecture - 5 years
- MongoDB - 4 years
- Python - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Node.js, Microservices Architecture, Full-stack, Cursor AI, Serverless, FastAPI, React, Python 3, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
The most amazing...
...project was leading back-end architecture and hands-on development of a microservice-based logistics platform for 7-Eleven, supporting across 18,000+ stores.
Work Experience
Technical Architect | Lead
Extrapreneurs India
- Defined and executed the migration strategy from legacy job-based systems to event-driven architecture, improving system efficiency and latency.
- Made architectural decisions for security, scalability, and fault tolerance. Developed a module for GST processing via the bank's internal gateway to RBI.
- Led a team of 6 engineers, balancing architectural direction with hands-on delivery of critical components such as bulk filing, automated reconciliation, and automated alert mechanisms.
Senior Software Engineer | Technical Lead
Alpha School
- Led technical execution for platform stabilization, achieving 93% ticket resolution within 24 hours across production systems.
- Designed and delivered an AI-assisted feedback to students for their daily activity and goal achievements to provide personalized assessments.
- Owned back-end feature development, code quality, and production support while remaining deeply hands-on across critical services.
- Drove UI automation adoption by leading development of Playwright-based test suites, improving release confidence, and reducing regression issues.
- Mentored engineers on pragmatic debugging, performance tuning, and incident response in a fully remote environment, utilizing AI tools at their best.
Back-end Developer (via Toptal)
Paylane GmbH
- Built back-end API's for multiple modules like customized Risk Checker profiles, Profile Assessment, etc.
- Developed the Next.js front-end application along with a team of two engineers.
- Performed code review of other team members and oversaw the deployment pipeline process.
Sr. Software Engineer
Infosys
- Architected and delivered high-throughput back-end APIs, improving ETA accuracy by around 30% across nationwide logistics workflows.
- Designed and developed critical systems like automated AUDIT and CLAIM processing systems, eliminating manual intervention for 18,000+ stores and significantly reducing operational overhead.
- Owned back-end architecture decisions end-to-end, from system design and API contracts to production rollout and post-deployment stabilization.
- Led cross-functional engineers (9 engineers) through design reviews, requirement analysis, and delivery planning, ensuring predictable execution under tight timelines.
Technical Architect | Lead
Extrapreneurs India
- Defined and executed the migration strategy from monolithic systems to serverless architecture, improving system availability and reducing infrastructure cost by around 35%.
- Made architectural decisions for security, scalability, and fault tolerance, including coordination of third-party security audits for regulatory clearance.
- Led a team of nine engineers, balancing architectural direction with hands-on delivery of critical components such as digital wallets, onboarding flows, and IPO integrations.
- Delivered multiple proofs-of-concept that directly enabled new business capabilities and accelerated go-to-market timelines.
Head of Department – Mobile & Web
Anand Rathi IT Pvt. Ltd.
- Directed migration of mobile applications to React Native, reducing new feature delivery time by around 30%.
- Led and mentored cross-functional teams across multiple projects, improving delivery predictability and increasing completion rates.
- Defined cloud migration strategies for core systems, improving the reliability and availability of customer-facing platforms.
- Mentored project managers and team leaders in adopting AWS technologies, enhancing cloud proficiency.
Assistant CTO
C G Technosoft Pvt
- Set technical direction for cloud adoption and modern back-end architectures (MERN/MEAN), shaping the company’s long-term technology roadmap.
- Reviewed and optimized system architectures across multiple projects, leading to measurable improvements in performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentored project managers and technical leads on cloud-native thinking and delivery best practices.
Project Manager | Senior Developer
C G Technosoft Pvt
- Delivered end-to-end web platforms across multiple client engagements, owning architecture, development, and client communication.
- Built strong foundations in back-end engineering, system design, and delivery discipline that supported progression into senior architectural roles.
- Worked with the DevOps team on Jenkins to achieve automated deployment pipelines.
- Mentored team leaders in Laravel and modern PHP frameworks, leading to significant improvements in code quality and system performance.
Experience
Supply Chain Management for 7-Eleven
https://www.7-eleven.com/Led back-end development for a microservices-based logistics platform built with ExpressJS, focused on managing complex supply chain operations and high-volume daily deliveries across the nationwide store network.
Designed and implemented critical automation workflows for Audit and Claims processing, enabling store associates to automatically validate delivered items and process damaged-item claims with minimal manual intervention, significantly improving operational efficiency and accuracy.
Additionally, managed production PostgreSQL database backup operations, ensuring data integrity and business continuity through routine backups of 20–25 GB of production data on a weekly basis.
The Serverless Architecture Transformation of Ventura
Led the end-to-end architecture transformation from a legacy monolithic system to a scalable microservices and serverless architecture. Designed the complete migration strategy and system architecture for 12+ core business modules, including single sign-on (SSO), IPO booking, digital wallet, digital onboarding, reconciliation, reporting, mutual fund management, and other critical financial services.
Architected and implemented a phased data migration strategy to modernize legacy applications with minimal operational disruption while improving scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Designed and developed a centralized authentication and single sign-on (SSO) and digital onboarding platform focused on improving user experience and increasing client onboarding conversion rates through streamlined workflows and automation.
Additionally, developed back-end systems for mutual fund management and engineered a risk assessment and margin calculation system to enhance trade safety, compliance, and real-time financial risk evaluation.
Host to Host Application for KOTAK Bank
Re-architected the existing scheduler-based system into a more responsive, event-driven solution to improve processing efficiency, reliability, and real-time document handling capabilities.
Designed the overall system architecture using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and MongoDB as core infrastructure components, enabling scalable, containerized deployment and efficient data management for high-volume document workflows.
Led the back-end API development for the end-to-end document processing pipeline, implementing robust fault-tolerant mechanisms, including retry strategies, centralized logging, exception handling, and monitoring capabilities to ensure operational stability and resilience.
Built comprehensive observability and support-focused logging solutions that significantly improved production monitoring, issue diagnosis, and turnaround time for the support and operations teams post-deployment.
SKMD Sports API
Provided technical leadership across architecture design, code reviews, and engineering best practices, with a strong focus on scalability, code quality, application security, and maintainability.
Led architectural recommendations and back-end design improvements to support high-concurrency booking workflows, secure payment processing, and seamless user experiences across the platform.
Developed the back end using Express.js (Node.js) and Firestore, while the front end was built with React to deliver a responsive and modern user interface.
Integrated Stripe for secure online payment processing and Firebase Authentication for robust user authentication and authorization management.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications
University of Rajasthan - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Certifications
GitHub Copilot
GitHub
Magento Certified Developer
MongoDB University
TOGAF Certified
The Open Group
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Problem Solving Intermediate Skills Certification
HackerRank
Node.js Intermediate Skills Certification
HackerRank
M220JS: MongoDB for JavaScript Developers
MongoDB University
SQL Intermediate Skills Certification
HackerRank
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, REST APIs, API Development, React, AWS Amplify
Tools
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Git, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Cognito, AWS Step Functions, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Windsurf
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python, Python 3, HTML, HTML5, CSS, PHP 7
Frameworks
Express.js, Laravel, Serverless Framework, Jest, Next.js, Spring 6
Paradigms
Microservices Architecture, Back-end Architecture, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Management, REST
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Confluent Kafka, Oracle, New Relic, Docker
Storage
MySQL, JSON, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Other
Team Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Back-end Development, Architecture, Web Project Management, APIs, MERN Stack, Leadership, Solution Design, Amazon API Gateway, Lambda Functions, Software Architecture, Code Review, Fintech, Serverless, API Gateways, Amazon RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Scalability, Solution Architecture, System Design, WebSockets, Firebase Cloud Functions, Full-stack, Cursor AI, FastAPI, GitHub Copilot Chat, Distributed Team Management, Business Requirements
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