Ashish Nigam is a Senior Product Manager based in Bengaluru with 7 years of experience building security-focused and AI-enabled platform products across enterprise and cloud environments. He has led next-generation observability and endpoint management initiatives—translating customer needs into roadmaps that deliver ML-driven insights like log grouping and generative-AI optimization for performance and security. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, Ashish brings hands-on backend experience in Go and Python and has contributed to the IoTeX blockchain core by improving test robustness and code quality. His background spans large enterprises (Tata, SolarWinds, HCLSoftware) and deep technical roots from early TCS systems and database roles, enabling pragmatic, delivery-oriented leadership. He pairs an MBA in International Management with an ECE engineering degree, giving him both strategic and technical fluency. Notably, his open-source work on a high-throughput EVM blockchain project reflects an inclination to improve reliability and developer experience behind the scenes.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA International Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA International Management at ESCP Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA International Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA International Management at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
B Tech Electronics & Communication engineering, B Tech Electronics & Communication engineering at B.I.E.T, Jhansi
Official implementation of IoTeX blockchain protocol in Go. An ultra-efficient EVM blockchain offering 1000 TPS with instant 1-block finality. Perfect for DeFi, DePIN tokenomics, Identities, and any trusted logic requiring Web3 composability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:81 reviews, 10 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily focused on improving test coverage and code quality within the IoTeX blockchain core. Their main contribution involved removing hardcoded test files and replacing them with temporary files, enhancing the robustness of the testing framework. Furthermore, they made numerous changes across various test files to incorporate temporary files, resulting in a cleaner and more maintainable codebase. These modifications were applied to a range of test files covering aspects such as API, blocksync, and execution, showcasing a broad impact on the project's testing practices.
Contributions:55 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 8 months
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Ashish Nigam - Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware