Hi, I’m Niharika! 👋 I am a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling high-performance systems. Currently, I work in Advertising Technology at Booking.com, engineering cloud-native, serverless architectures that process massive scale. Before this, I built scaled enforcement infrastructure at Meta (Facebook) in Singapore. My technical journey spans Big Data, real-time analytics pipelines, and deeply exploring the frontier of Agentic AI and LLMs—both in production systems and local "vibe-coding" environments. I also hold an NLP patent cited by R&D teams at Microsoft, IBM, and Tencent. 🎓 My Foundations I believe strong engineering roots matter. I hold a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Computer Science from IIIT Delhi and a Bachelor of Engineering in CS from BIT Mesra. I blend deep theoretical fundamentals with real-world, highly-scaled big tech execution. I love giving back to the tech community, whether I'm presenting real-time ad architectures on stage at the AWS Summit or mentoring the next generation of engineers. 💡 How We Can Work Together AI-Era Interview Prep: Shift your strategy from memorization to codebase stewardship and engineering judgment. Resume & Career Strategy (Async): Drop your resume in my Priority DM for a line-by-line Big Tech critique. The Tech-to-Leadership Leap: Learn how to break the "fixer instinct" and drop the communication data-dumps to seamlessly step into leading teams.