Nik Bhattacharya
Senior Staff Software Engineering Lead at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNik Bhattacharya is a Senior Staff Software Engineering Lead at Google and a serial founder with 11+ years of experience building Android platforms, voice AI, and NLP-driven user experiences. He co-founded Mastermind Assistant (Convessa), which became Amazon Alexa’s top consumer communication app and raised $1.3M to commercialize voice-driven automation for productivity teams. Earlier work includes founding Hit Wicket and Hit Wicket Apps, shipping a fast-growing Android game franchise and Android innovations for Samsung, and serving as frog design’s first principal software architect where he prototyped early Android OEM experiences and dual-screen devices. Nik blends deep systems-level expertise in mobile OS internals, design-minded UX craftsmanship, and pragmatism from running startups to deliver polished, production-grade products. Based in Austin, he pairs formal training in computer science and finance from the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton with a talent for turning experimental prototypes into widely used consumer and developer tools. An underappreciated strength is his long history of decompiling and re-architecting platform software, enabling him to invent novel integrations before ecosystems standardize.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Finance, Bachelor of Science Finance at The Wharton SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Portuguese, Hindi, French
Github Skills (4)
ad-hoc5
android3
identity3
kotlin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nibhatta/tennisserve
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
MultiScreenSDK/casteroids
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:15 commits in 1 day
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