Nikhil Thadani

I build iGaming platforms, ship and help startups, and teach developers. 10 years of full-stack engineering across MERN, Web3, cloud infrastructure, and real-time systems. Based in India.

Technical Lead at Entrans (2025-12 – Present)

• Developed and maintained real money gaming engines including Blackjack, Plinko, Roulette, and Crash with scalable backend architecture with 10M daily plays.
• Integrated Remote Gaming Server (RGS) with multiple operators, payment flows, and multi-currency transaction flows.
• Led backend and full stack engineering efforts for gaming platforms, including RGS architecture, APIs, operations, and production deployments.

Founding Engineer, Contract at My Startup Connect (2025-09 – 2025-12)

• Developed portal from scratch, with Microservices Architecture and Event driven architecture.
• Developed Full Stack Chat, Posting, Connections, Profile, Authentication components.
• Usage of AWS S3, SES, EC2, Port management for managing production apps.
• Usage of Apache Kafka for event driven architecture with Email, Schedulers, Notifications.
• Designed and scaled real time chat systems handling 50K+ daily messages with WebSockets.

Senior Software Engineer at Pure Software (2024-09 – 2025-09)

• Developed scalable gaming lobby applications for real time game access and player engagement.
• Enhanced and maintained in house game development frameworks by implementing gameplay features, backend integrations, and performance optimizations.
• Built RGS Aggregator services for managing operator integrations

Senior Game Developer at Ingenuity Gaming (2021-11 – 2024-08)

• Developed 3 skill-based games in JavaScript / TypeScript with Cocos Creator, achieving over 1M daily plays.
• Built a scalable Full Stack Backoffice Application from the ground up using Next.js, Node.js.
• Developed a scaled RGS, Aggregator for server-to-server communication.
• Led a team of 4, conducting daily scrum meetings, code reviews and presentations.

Programmer at Tata Consultancy Services (2020-10 – 2021-10)

• Development of Web Application of CR Tool with HTML DOM and JavaScript Validations.
• Developed User Permissions and Access Control model in Server for CR Tool using Node.js.

Master of Computer Applications in MCA – Amity University (2020-07 – 2022-07)

Bachelor of Computer Applications in BCA – Bharati Vidyapeeth University (2017-07 – 2020-07)