Nithin Kumar KV

Hi, I'm Nithin

Software Engineer at Meta in London, on the Agentic Compliance team building AI agents for Meta's compliance workflows. Previously focused on privacy platform tools across Meta's family of apps; earlier at Rippling, AWS (EMR), and Practo. I work on distributed systems and AI agents, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scale.

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experience

Meta mar 2024 — present

Software Engineer · Agentic Compliance · London, UK

  • On the Agentic Compliance team, building AI agents that automate Meta's compliance workflows — applying agentic systems to reasoning, review, and execution at platform scale.
  • Previously contributed to platform tools enabling automated risk identification and mitigation across Meta's family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Reality Labs.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to strengthen privacy compliance, data governance, and Meta's compliance infrastructure at scale.
Rippling aug 2023 — may 2024

Senior Software Engineer · Bangalore, IN

  • Designed and implemented Rippling's multi-region data residency system — a framework for sharding company data by region, with optimized API routing for global performance.
  • Reduced SLA misses for critical asynchronous tasks by 80% via chunking and staggered execution.
  • Spearheaded service decoupling initiatives for scalability and maintainability.
AWS may 2022 — may 2023

Software Engineer, EMR · Bangalore, IN

  • Saved ~500 MB per EMR job-engine container by replacing FluentD with Fluent Bit and reworking the underlying logging infrastructure.
  • Identified and fixed a memory leak in the Fluent Bit CloudWatch plugin triggered when log rotation was enabled.
  • Contributed to the interactive serverless component of AWS EMR — cost-effective, low-maintenance infrastructure for large-scale big data and AI workloads.
  • Managed multiple on-call rotations, responding to system failures with minimal stakeholder downtime.
Practo mar 2014 — dec 2021

Senior Software Engineer · Bangalore, IN

  • Optimized the doctor calendar synchronization service, achieving a 92% reduction in CDC events.
  • Replaced an entire microservice with AWS Lambda functions, cutting infrastructure cost for it by 75%.
  • Built PollerService for real-time schedule sync between hospital HMS systems and Practo.com — scaled to ~4000 doctors.
  • Re-architected the cloud platform of Qikwell for performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Feature lead for several initiatives, leading teams of 1–3 developers.
  • Automated Kubernetes cluster creation and add-on installation, reducing cluster switching time from months to hours.
  • Drove annual RDS and ElastiCache reservation planning, saving 30% on infrastructure cost.

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skills

languages
Python · Java · Ruby on Rails · SQL (MySQL) · Shell
infrastructure
AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · Serverless / Lambda · SQS · Redis · MongoDB · DynamoDB
focus
Distributed systems · Privacy infrastructure · Performance & reliability

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