Nikhil Fernandes
Chief Technology Officer at smalldata.ai
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Fernandes is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13+ years building distributed cloud systems and mobile platforms and eight years of people-management experience. He has cofounded multiple profitable startups and repeatedly scaled engineering teams to deliver production-grade microservices, real-time data pipelines, and mobile apps using Elixir, Go, Ruby, Kotlin and Swift. Comfortable from systems design (Kafka, NATS, Spark/Flink) to databases and monitoring, he blends hands-on engineering with product-led execution to move features from prototype to production. Based in Mumbai, he has led technical strategy at early-stage AI and health-tech firms and continues to found and advise startups, demonstrating an unusual mix of operational rigor and founder-level risk tolerance.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Technology, BE, Computer Technology at TSEC Mumbai
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Github Skills (1)
ruby-on-rails6
Github contributions (5)
smalldata-ai/ferry
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 3 branches in 13 days
nikhilfernandes/pingpong-referee
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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