Nitesh Kant
Bits And Bytes Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNitesh Kant is a seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and IPC infrastructure for service-oriented architectures. He has driven critical open-source work at Netflix (RxNetty, Eureka, Karyon, RSocket) and contributed to projects at Facebook/HHVM, Apple, and Meta, focusing on reactive networking, service discovery, and schema/mime-type tooling. At Netflix he took RxNetty from infancy to a battle-tested async networking library and added cross-region replication to Eureka to enable multi-region resiliency. His contributions include performance-first work such as a custom CBOR codec to reduce allocations and schema generation improvements to Thrift/HHVM for better runtime introspection. Now a Bits and Bytes Engineer at Meta after leading traffic and open-source efforts at Apple Cloud Services, he blends systems-level optimization with pragmatic architecture design. Trained as a metallurgical engineer at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, he brings an unconventional background to solving hard systems problems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Metallurgical Engineering, B.Tech, Metallurgical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
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Github Skills (38)
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java10
netflix-eureka10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ReactiveX/RxNetty
Jan 2014 - Feb 2017
Reactive Extension (Rx) Adaptor for Netty
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 244 commits, 199 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Nitesh primarily contributed to the `rxnetty` project by implementing and refactoring server-side interceptors and client-side configurations. The commits involve changes to the core TCP client and server, including modifications for transformation and data handling. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's functionality and flexibility for data processing within a reactive programming paradigm. The user also added examples demonstrating the usage of TCP client interceptors.
adaptorreactivenetty
Netflix/karyon
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
The nucleus or the base container for Applications and Services built using the NetflixOSS ecosystem
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nitesh's initial commit introduces the foundational elements of the karyon project, including the bootstrap mechanism, the concepts of @Application and @Component, and integration with Eureka, Archaius, and governator. The commits also involve the implementation of a mock Eureka resource, showcasing experience with Java, Jetty, and XML processing. The changes also involve configuration loading. The user's work appears to be focused on setting up the basic structure and integrating with the Netflix OSS ecosystem.
containersnetflixossdockerdiscoverykubernetes
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