Summary
Nikesh Ashar is a pragmatic Quality Assurance Lead with 11 years' experience building resilient processes and tooling to keep products reliable and compliant. Currently leading QA at Cledara, he designs and implements automated and manual testing policies that drive measurable quality improvements. His background spans product and operations leadership at Makers, where he launched apprenticeships, managed 300+ device fleets, achieved Cyber Essentials certification, and cut operational spend by 60% through systems and vendor negotiations. Comfortable bridging engineering, product and business stakeholders, he has a track record of shipping high-uptime internal tools and creating scalable workflows that reduce manual work by half. Based in London, he combines hands-on technical skills from a Full Stack Web Development background with practical people leadership and regulatory know-how. Outside work he’s a developer, traveller and foodie, which feeds a curious, experiment-driven approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Full Stack Web Development, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster at Makers
City University, Air Transport Studies BSc HONS, City University, Air Transport Studies BSc HONS at City University
1st, A Levels, 1st, A Levels at Watford Grammar School
Gujarati, Hindi