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Nitya Murali

Cary,United States

Summary

Engineering leader with 18+ years of experience driving delivery excellence, improving productivity, and reducing time-to-market. Proven track record in cross-functional team leadership, cloud migrations, and stakeholder engagement for user and revenue growth.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Software Engineering

Digital Turbine
Durham, NC
02.2025 - Current
  • Instrumental in shaping engineering teams during successive reorganizations, fostering high-performing groups that advanced critical product initiatives and delivered on business priorities.
  • Built and nurtured a high-performing engineering culture, creating an environment of trust, teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and success.
  • Collaborate closely with global, cross-functional teams, including product, design, engineering, data, and business, to bring innovative experiences to market.
  • Defined and executed an engineering strategy aligned with organizational goals, resulting in an accelerated time-to-market for key product lines.
  • Spearheaded platform modernization initiatives encompassing system decoupling, generating infrastructural savings
  • Advocated for developer experience improvements, driving the adoption of CI/CD best practices, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Facilitated comprehensive internal training sessions focused on core product knowledge and practical application of coding techniques.

Senior Engineering Manager

Digital Turbine
11.2022 - 02.2025
  • Leading multiple globally distributed teams of engineers.
  • Developed and implemented engineering strategies to ensure product quality, reliability, and cost targets were met.
  • Collaborated with clients in implementing and optimizing service integrations.
  • Led team in migrating infrastructural framework from AWS to GCP, resulting in substantial cost reduction for the company.
  • Assessed and selected technically apt solutions, considering team and product needs and factoring in budget limitations.
  • Implemented and facilitated Test Driven Development methodologies, leading teams towards automation and enhancing delivery efficiency.
  • Lobbied for and achieved expedited deployment of high-confidence features, affirming the value of swift implementation.
  • Motivated and empowered team members to reach their full potential, while amplifying visibility of their exceptional work.
  • Successfully onboarded and integrated new hires into teams.
  • Coordinated, comprehensive internal training sessions emphasizing both core product knowledge and practical implementation of coding techniques.
  • Defined technical roadmap for engineering projects from concept through completion.

Engineering Manager

Digital Turbine
05.2021 - 11.2022
  • Managed and led cross-functional teams consisting of Android, UI, Java, and Elixir developers.
  • Implemented effective strategies for roadmap planning and offered valuable technical expertise.
  • Produced detailed technical specifications for product integrations.
  • Collaborated with Product Management, Architecture, and Business colleagues to develop a unified team strategy.
  • Ensured operational excellence, eliminated obstacles, and supported the team.
  • Contributed to the success of System Design and Architecture ceremonies by empowering team leads to create optimal designs.
  • Facilitated and participated in various Scrum ceremonies, such as Daily Scrum, Grooming, Sprint planning, Retro, and Backlog Refinement.
  • Developed and implemented engineering processes that improved project efficiency by 20%.
  • Provided technical guidance to junior engineers, ensuring all designs met safety regulations.

Senior Software Engineer - Java

Digital Turbine
11.2019 - 05.2021
  • Developed high performing spring boot applications utilizing Kafka, Kafka Streams, and integrating with both relational databases such as Postgres and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB and Aerospike.
  • Involved in application design, code reviews and test driven development
  • Utilized Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration to streamline application deployment
  • Developed micro services using Java, Scala and Python
  • Utilized Vuejs to develop front end interfaces that enhanced user engagement and experience
  • Collaborated with team members to ensure successful project completion within timeline constraints.
  • Mentored junior staff members in coding best practices and problem solving techniques.

Lead Software Engineer

Railinc Corp.
07.2016 - 11.2019
  • Implemented solutions to enhance performance and scalability of web applications for high traffic loads
  • Application development using Angular, HTML, Spring Suite, Oracle and Jasper Reports
  • Utilized JMeter for comprehensive load testing and uncovering system vulnerabilities that remained undetected during manual test processes
  • Led the implementation of new features according to product roadmap.
  • Participated in design reviews, sprint planning meetings and daily standups.
  • Utilized Spring-Batch to efficiently process large quantities of data
  • Write complex rules using the Business Rules Management System
  • SQL optimizations in Oracle
  • Performance optimizations using EhCache and HazelCast.

Lead Software Engineer

Infosys
04.2011 - 07.2016
  • Led the design, architecture and implementation of multiple projects within Card Payment Services unit of Bank of America
  • Elicited and gathered requirements, participated in design discussions, performed reengineering tasks, engaged in hands-on coding, and mentored team members.
  • Implemented JSF with PrimeFaces and HTML to enhance the front-end functionality of web applications.
  • Extensive hands-on experience working with Web services especially in 'Big' Web Services that follows SOAP over Http protocol
  • Followed Agile software development practice, paired programming, test driven development and scrum status meetings
  • Developed use case diagrams, class diagrams, database tables, and mapping between relational database tables and object oriented java objects using Hibernate.

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys
06.2006 - 04.2011
  • Worked on multiple projects within the Card Payment Services group in Bank of America
  • Worked extensively on migration of Merril Lynch to Bank of America Systems as part of their acquisition.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science And Engineering -

Calicut University
India
06-2006

Skills

  • Languages : Java, Scala, Python
  • Framework : Spring Boot, Batch, MVC, Security
  • Cloud : AWS (MSK, Lambda, API Gateway, S3), GCP (Cloud Functions, Cloud Endpoints, Storage Buckets)
  • Databases : Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Oracle, Aerospike, DB2
  • UI : Angular, VueJS, Microfrontends, NuxtJS
  • DevOps & Tools : Kafka, Kafka Streams, Docker, Kubernetes, JMeter
  • Identity : Okta, Auth0, Keycloak
  • System Architecture
  • Continuous integration
  • Strategic Planning
  • Technical leadership
  • Cross-functional team management

Timeline

Director, Software Engineering

Digital Turbine
02.2025 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Digital Turbine
11.2022 - 02.2025

Engineering Manager

Digital Turbine
05.2021 - 11.2022

Senior Software Engineer - Java

Digital Turbine
11.2019 - 05.2021

Lead Software Engineer

Railinc Corp.
07.2016 - 11.2019

Lead Software Engineer

Infosys
04.2011 - 07.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys
06.2006 - 04.2011

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science And Engineering -

Calicut University

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