Staff Software Engineer | Blockchain • DLT • Digital Currency • Scalability • Security • AI
📍 Mumbai, India
✉️ nishant.a.m@gmail.com
🔗 linkedin.com/in/nishantajaymehta | github.com/nishantam
Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building scalable, secure, and distributed systems. Expertise in blockchain, digital assets, AI-driven platforms, and large-scale cloud-native applications. Dual Master’s in Software Engineering and Information Technology (San Jose State University, University of Mumbai).
📍 Mumbai, India | 2025 – Present
- Building scalable, secure, and performant blockchain/DLT systems.
- Working on digital currency platforms integrating advanced security and compliance.
- Exploring AI-driven improvements for scalability and developer efficiency.
📍 New York, USA | 2017 – 2024
- Architected and led backend powering hotel booking searches, serving millions of requests per minute, generating $1B+ bookings annually.
- Built the first GraphQL federation services in Kotlin/Java; championed adoption across the company.
- Designed coroutine-based distributed request orchestration for lowest-latency travel search results.
- Scaled infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
📍 California, USA | 2015 – 2017
- Migrated core payment platform from TIBCO to Java, handling secure real-time transactions.
- Developed subscription model system with customer notifications, cross-sell, and upsell features.
- Built compliance systems to ensure US government trade regulation adherence.
📍 Mumbai, India | 2012 – 2013
- Early career experience developing software solutions and proving capabilities without a degree.
- M.S. in Software Engineering — San Jose State University
- M.S. in Information Technology — University of Mumbai
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Node.js, GraphQL, gRPC, REST
- Cloud & Infra: GCP, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems
- Domains: Blockchain, DLT, Digital Currency, AI, Payments, Security, Scalability
- Leadership: Architecture, Mentoring, Technical Guilds, Cross-team Collaboration
- 11 years in USA, relocated to Mumbai in 2024.
- Built high-scale distributed systems powering billions in revenue.
- Dual Master’s from San Jose State University & University of Mumbai.
- Advocate for scalable architectures, secure systems, and future tech (AI + Blockchain).