React and GraphQL product delivery
Employee-facing workflows, profile experiences, invite flows, and GraphQL facade migrations designed for clarity and long-term maintainability.
Full-stack tech lead - Fremont, CA
Building reliable SaaS platforms and high-scale employee experiences.
Nikita Aghi leads product engineering across React, GraphQL, Java services, search, messaging, observability, Kubernetes, and AWS, with recent work on QuickBooks Payroll and Workforce systems at Intuit.
14+
years building production software
190M
employee records migrated to OpenSearch
SaaS
payroll, workforce, identity, and platform systems
Core strengths
Technical leadership across product, platform, and reliability.
Nikita works close to the product surface while keeping the underlying systems observable, scalable, and maintainable.Java services and event-driven systems
Microservices, Kafka/JMS messaging, payroll domain workflows, API migrations, and decomposition of monolithic reporting systems.
OpenSearch at workforce scale
Search migration work spanning 190M employee records, production rollout planning, operational readiness, and measurable reliability improvements.
Kubernetes, AWS, and observability
Cloud-native delivery with strong production ownership, metrics, logging, alerting, and incident-aware engineering standards.
Cross-functional technical direction
Mentoring, design reviews, standards, stakeholder alignment, and pragmatic delivery across product, architecture, and operations.
Modern development practices
Uses AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully to accelerate implementation, improve review quality, and keep engineering decisions grounded in system context.
Selected work
Recent impact at Intuit QuickBooks Payroll and Workforce.
The profile highlights systems where product experience, data scale, and production reliability intersect.
Intuit
Employee Management System leadership
Led engineering work across employee lifecycle capabilities, partner integrations, invite flows, and employee profile surfaces for QuickBooks Payroll and Workforce.
Intuit
OpenSearch migration
Helped move employee search to OpenSearch for 190M records, with emphasis on migration safety, production performance, and operational observability.
Intuit
GraphQL facade modernization
Guided GraphQL facade migrations that simplified client integration patterns and improved consistency across employee-facing experiences.
Intuit
Payroll reports decomposition
Contributed to breaking down payroll reporting from monolithic surfaces into more maintainable services and delivery paths.
Experience
A full-stack path through consumer products, enterprise systems, and SaaS platforms.
Nikita combines deep implementation experience with technical direction, mentoring, and production ownership.Full-Stack Tech Lead
Intuit - QuickBooks Payroll and Workforce
Android and Web Engineer
Flixster / Rotten Tomatoes
Engineering Intern
Splunk
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Connect
Open to senior full-stack, tech lead, platform, HCM, payroll, and AI-assisted engineering roles.
For roles that need product-minded leadership across React, GraphQL, Java services, search, eventing, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability, start with LinkedIn or the resume.