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Nishant Mittal

Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Nishant Mittal is a Principal Software Engineer, Backend at Tinder, specializing in real-time messaging infrastructure, large-scale service redesigns and platform reliability. He has contributed to foundational backend initiatives including the redesign of user federation and the migration of Feature Gating from API Meta, helping deliver a cleaner architecture, reduced backend load, and frictionless launches for new features. His work includes proposing a new architecture for Tinder chat and building migration workflows that improve the reliability of Tinder chat data.

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