Hi, I am Nikhil Bisht.
A Staff Software Engineer.
Experienced software professional with 10+ years in software engineering, specializing in performance and test engineering across cloud-native distributed systems and microservices.
Experience
Salesforce
Senior Member of Technical Staff (Jan 2024 - Present)
Owns end-to-end performance and scale testing for Data Cloud. Built Kubernetes-based performance infrastructure, automated regression triage with AI agents, and improved alert response time by 80%.
VMware
Member of Technical Staff - 3 (Mar 2023 - Dec 2023)
Built Python-driven system test automation for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and hardened cross-cloud regression pipelines, reducing flakiness from 50% to near-zero.
Cloudera
Senior Software Engineer (Aug 2021 - Feb 2023)
Built integration test infrastructure for public cloud operations and led migration from JSON orchestration to Airflow-based workflows with stronger observability and triage.
BirdEye
Software Development Engineer - Test (Jul 2019 - Jul 2021)
Expanded API automation coverage from 30% to 75%, reduced manual testing effort by 65%, and implemented reporting plus alerting for faster production issue detection.
Publicis Sapient
Associate L2 (Jul 2016 - Jun 2019)
Worked across client programs as an automation engineer for UI and backend APIs using Java, Selenium, and REST Assured.
Skills
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- Spring Boot
- LLMs and LangChain
- MCP and Agentic AI
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS
- Azure
- Airflow
- Spark
- Kafka
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- K6
- Performance Profiling
- Selenium
- REST Assured
- PyTest
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Tableau
- CI/CD
- CSS
- HTML
- Git
Education and Awards
Graphic Era University
B.Tech in Computer Science (Aug 2012 - Jul 2016), Dehradun, India.
Key Achievements
Automation Lord Annual Award (BirdEye), Shining Star Award (BirdEye), YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE Award (Publicis Sapient).