Naga Durga
Strategic Tech Leadership | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Startup Tech Advisor | Problem Solver | Trainer
― My background
A visionary Technology & Product Leader with over 9+ years of experience building and scaling ecommerce, logistics, and SaaS platforms across global markets. Expert in leading cross-functional teams across engineering, product management, and design, with a strong record of delivering digital commerce innovations.
My work blends strong engineering fundamentals, scalable architecture, and practical leadership, enabling teams and startups to turn ideas into production-ready systems. I also work as a Startup Technical Advisor, helping early-stage founders from MVP to end-to-end development, technology strategy, DevOps practices, and scalability planning.
As part of internal graduate training program, I served as a Trainer for new engineering graduates, helping them transition from college to real-world software development. During this program, I helped new engineers build strong foundations in modern software craftsmanship and guided them through hands-on exercises that prepared them for working on production-grade projects.
― Skills
Tech Leadership
Product Strategy & Vision
Operational Excellence
Customer Experience
Agile team management.
Technical Mentorship / Training
― Work experience 👩💻
Senior Application Developer | Thoughtworks | 2016 - 2021
E-commerce giant in South America | Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Designing and Building of a generic Ecommerce microservices platform, which is serving the requests of more than 32 business units(tenants). This product will also be provided as a service for other companies in future.
Technologies: NodeJs(Fastify), ReactJs, Postgres, Neo4j, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Pubsub, Auth0, Gitlab CI/CD.
A leading German car manufacturer | June 2018 - Jan 2019
Built a portal for end users to manage their car controls like locking unlocking. Migrated entire content and integrated with Contentful CMS to provide content as a service across different applications.
Technologies: Java, ReactJs, Postgres, Contentful, Gitlab.
North American chain of luxury department stores | Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Developed UI and backend for the web application based on microservices architecture.
Open source contribution for Journo | Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
A web application for journalists to subscribe, read and collect news from different sources and write articles using templates provided by the application.
Trainer at Graduate training program
Designed and delivered technical training modules on Development &Testing, and modern software engineering practices.
Successfully onboarded and prepared a batch of graduates to contribute to production-level client projects with the culture of clean coding, collaboration, and continuous learning that aligned with engineering excellence standards.
― Education 🎓
A.P.IIIT, R.K.Valley (Hyderabad)
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / 2012 - 2016
A.P.IIIT, R.K.Valley (Hyderabad)
Pre University Course / 2010 - 2012
― Achievements
Senior Technical Lead
The world's fastest-growing diamond marketplace | Nivoda | July 2021 - Present
Defined and executed the digital commerce technology roadmap, scaling a global B2B marketplace across 20+ countries. Partnered with leadership to align product and business strategy, focusing on customer experience, scalability, and efficiency.
Led end-to-end product development across onboarding, pricing intelligence, order fulfillment, and personalization.
Technologies: NodeJs(Express), ReactJs, Postgres, GraphQL, AWS, Data Pipelines, Kafka.
Startup Technology Advisor of High-Impact - 2023
Leadership in Full-Stack Engineering & Technical Delivery -2021
Excellence in Agile & Extreme Programming Coaching - 2019
Recognition for High-Quality Engineering Practices - 2018
“Great engineering starts with great mindset.
A good leader helps people to scale.”
― Andre (Co-founder & CIO @ Nivoda)
I've had the pleasure of working with Durga for almost 5 years. She's been pivotal in Nivoda's growth, joining when we were a small team. She always has been very positive with a can-do attitude, and has delivered great results throughout the years on top of that. I would highly recommend her if you're looking for someone who takes great pride and really cares about her team and what she's building!
Naga is a standout engineering leader who consistently elevates both technology and people. He combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural intuition, enabling teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products at speed. His ability to drive clarity in ambiguity, mentor engineers, and align teams around a common vision makes him a true force multiplier. Naga leads with ownership, empathy, and a strategic mindset—any team would benefit immensely from his leadership.
― ManAger @ ThoughtworkS
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