Ankita Khurana

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Platform Engineer, Nectar Works - Go · Backstage · Kubernetes

Nectar Works
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
2+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi
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Overview

2 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Nectar Works, where I work on the developer platform team. Wrote the Go service that now handles 53 million requests a day. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Skills
CI/CDGoKubernetesBackstageservice mesh
LearningLearning something
closes in 3 months

Learning Backstage - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal
Get good enough at Backstage to own it at work.
Where I am now
Some experience
Ideal mentor
Someone who has worked in platform engineering for a few years
Cadence
Monthly
What I can offer back
Introductions in my college network

2 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Noida, Indiagokubernetesci/cd
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Experience

  1. Platform Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Nectar Works · 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 16 a week to 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 804ms to 130ms.
    • Shipped 21 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Nov 2025
    American Express · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 7 million requests a day.

Projects

Platform engineering benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing service mesh and CI/CD on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Information Technology
    2019 - 2023

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