Nithin Nampalli

Senior Software Engineer · AI Platform Engineering · Fintech

London, UK +44 7466 908790 nithin.nampalli@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/nithin-nampalli github.com/nithinnampalli

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Fintech platform engineering and cloud-native distributed systems. Currently at Checkout.com designing Policy Engines, automating merchant compliance workflows, and integrating LLMs (Claude AI, Gemini) across 8+ global regions. Deep hands-on expertise in AWS (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB), C#, React.js, event-driven architecture, and production AI integrations. Hands-on experience evaluating and integrating LLMs into production workflows — from prototype to platform. Delivered measurable impact: 1–2 hrs saved per merchant onboarded, Time-to-Live from days to hours, and automation runtime from 10 hrs to 1 hr.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Checkout.com
Jun 2022 – Present

London, UK · Onboarding Platform

  • Designed and built a Policy Engine governing merchant onboarding compliance across 8 regions (UK, US, CA, EU+), incorporating country-specific regulatory requirements in real time
  • Built a production LLM-powered URL screening system for MCC classification, trialling Gemini and Claude AI before settling on Claude — reducing manual merchant review by 1–2 hrs per onboarding
  • Implemented an automated merchant requirements flow cutting Time-to-Live from days to hours and significantly reducing agent manual reviews
  • Architected event-driven microservices on AWS Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB with full observability via DataDog
  • Integrated Claude AI and Gemini into onboarding summarisation and risk assessment workflows; evaluated model trade-offs across tasks and settled on Claude for production use
  • Used Claude AI and Cursor throughout day-to-day development, improving delivery pace on complex backend and infrastructure work
  • Developed frontend features using React.js; contributed across full stack from cloud infrastructure to UI

Technologies: C#, React.js, AWS Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, DataDog, Claude AI, Gemini, Docker, Event-Driven Architecture

Senior Analyst — Cognizant UK&I
Nov 2021 – Jun 2022

London, UK · Client: ASOS

  • Engineered payment systems integration infrastructure for ASOS covering end-to-end transactional and checkout flows using C#
  • Built and owned CI/CD pipeline configuration on Azure DevOps enabling continuous delivery across critical ASOS payment services

Technologies: C#, Azure DevOps, Postman, REST APIs

Senior Analyst — Infosys Limited
Apr 2018 – Aug 2021

Gothenburg, Sweden · Hyderabad, India · Clients: Volvo Cars, Arrow Electronics, Cigna

  • Built reusable internal tooling and API integration frameworks in Java for enterprise clients including Volvo Cars, Arrow Electronics, and Cigna
  • Engineered a distributed execution system using Selenium Grid and Docker, reducing suite runtime from 10 hours to 1 hour through parallelisation and containerised infrastructure
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps; deployed containerised cross-browser execution infrastructure on Docker and BrowserStack

Technologies: Java, Docker, Selenium Grid, Azure DevOps, BrowserStack

Application Development Senior Analyst — Accenture
Jan 2014 – Apr 2018

Bangalore & Hyderabad, India · Clients: O2 Telefonica, Microsoft, BMG

  • Led a team of 6 engineers developing enterprise automation platforms for O2 Telefonica, Microsoft, and BMG — integrating across Siebel CRM, Salesforce, and SAP at scale across multi-year engagements
  • Drove end-to-end workflow automation across Agile sprints using Jenkins CI; contributed to the NexGen platform framework adopted across Accenture's delivery practice

Technologies: Java, C#, Jenkins, JIRA, Azure DevOps

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Docker, GCP
Languages C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
Frontend React.js, Node.js, HTML, CSS, REST APIs
AI Platform Engineering Claude AI, Gemini, Cursor, LLM API Integration, Prompt Engineering, Model Evaluation, AI Tooling
Observability & DevOps DataDog, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, Event-Driven Architecture

Education

Executive MBA — Venkateshwara Open University
2019 – 2020

Business Leadership · Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology — Electronics & Communications Engineering
2009 – 2013

JNTU Hyderabad · Mahaveer Institute of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, India