Nikhil D'souza is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of experience building health-tech startups and scalable data-driven products from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and former CTO of Vitalize (YC W23) he led product and engineering through growth and now advises the company as Executive Technical Advisor while also serving as a venture partner at Orange Collective. His background blends hands-on founding engineering at Vincere Health (acquired) with advanced training in data science from Columbia and a CS/Data Science BS from Purdue, enabling him to bridge ML/data workflows and production systems. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs startup-scale pragmatism with academic rigor and an unusual early focus on competitive debate and hackathons that sharpen his product intuition and communication.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Varsity Speech & Debate, Varsity Tennis, GunnHacks, Varsity Speech & Debate, Varsity Tennis, GunnHacks at Henry M. Gunn High School
W23, W23 at Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Statistics at Purdue University
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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