• Software Engineer — Abu Dhabi, UAE

Hi, I'm Nishantika Garg.
I build scalable backend systems & developer platforms.

Backend engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable systems across identity & access, billing, and API developer platforms.

About Me

A bit about myself

I’m a backend engineer currently based in Abu Dhabi, with 5+ years of experience building scalable systems and developer platforms.

Currently, I work on the ASK platform at AI71, where I build and maintain backend platform services, APIs, integrations, and workflows that power customer-facing products.

I’ve also worked extensively on API development frameworks and SDK automation at Nutanix, with a focus on improving developer experience and accelerating product development. I've been a core contributor to the API development framework behind Nutanix's v4 APIs.

I hold a B.E. in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, Goa (Class of 2020, Distinction — 9.17 CGPA).

Outside of engineering, I write on Medium and share artwork on Instagram.

Tech Stack

Java Python JavaScript Go OpenAPI PostgreSQL SDK Automation FastAPI Pydantic Alembic Redis REST APIs Helm / Kubernetes Docker

Experience

Where I've worked

Feb 2026 → Present
Software Engineer II
AI71 — Abu Dhabi
  • Build and maintain backend services including APIs, integrations, and workflows for the ASK platform.
  • Work across core platform domains including identity & access, organizations, and usage management.
  • Develop operational tooling and automation to streamline platform workflows and reduce manual overhead
Aug 2024 → Dec 2025
Member of Technical Staff 4
Nutanix Technologies — Bangalore
  • Led critical efforts that contributed to the General Availability of Nutanix's v4 APIs.
  • One of 2 developers invited for a strategic collaboration in Nutanix HQ (Bay Area) with architects and product stakeholders to define the future roadmap.
  • Co-designed an AI agent that via natural language can find APIs and generate & run code to call these APIs —won internal hackathon, slated for public launch in 2025.
Jul 2022 → Jul 2024
Member of Technical Staff 3
Nutanix Technologies — Bangalore
  • Subject matter expert in auto-generators for Nutanix's v4 client SDKs across all API families available in 4 languages (java, javascript, golang, python)
  • Built automated pipelines for generating API references and SDK documentation showcased on developers.nutanix.com
  • Delivered 71 platform releases ensuring continuous improvements.
  • Won internal hackathon for co-designing and prototyping an automated pipeline to streamline the entire v4 platform release process end-to-end.
  • Groomed several team members as team strength grew 5x over 3 years.
  • Helped meet requirements to onboard numerous API families to the framework, several of them soon to be available for general access.
  • Part of a geographically distributed global team, reporting directly to Nutanix headquarters in the SF Bay Area.
Jul 2020 → Jun 2022
Member of Technical Staff 2
Nutanix Technologies — Bangalore
  • Developed mechanism for consolidation and validation of language agnostic API design based on the OpenAPI specification.
  • Automated boilerplate code based on these specs, reducing development time for new API families drastically.
  • Added enhanced usability, filtering, sorting, and selection through automated integration with O-Data for all API families.
  • Upgraded platform further to enforce versioning and backward compatibility thereby streamlining API design.
  • Constructed framework to automatically generate ready-to-use client SDKs based on language agnostic spec, bringing down incremental development time from weeks to mere minutes.
  • Received Certificate of Achievement by Nutanix of exceptional performance
Jan 2020 → Jun 2020
Software Development Intern
OYO — Gurugram
  • Built and deployed RESTful microservices using Spring Boot and Python Flask.
  • Integrated Postgres and Redis caching for optimised data storage.
  • Set up Prometheus + Grafana dashboards for system performance monitoring.

Writing

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Contact

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Feel free to reach out — preferably via LinkedIn for a prompt response.

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