Nikhil Gajwani
Engineering Manager at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Gajwani is an Engineering Manager based in New York with 11 years of experience leading and building reliable, user-centered software across startups and product teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kotlin, JavaScript, Ruby and JVM ecosystems with a background in electrical engineering and embedded wireless systems, enabling him to reason from hardware signals to high-level architectures. Known for rapid learning through pattern analysis, he emphasizes clean architecture, TDD, pair programming and lean product practices to turn complex ideas into pragmatic solutions. His career includes technical leadership roles at Gusto, Transfix, Brigit and a long tenure at Pivotal Labs where he refined coaching and delivery at scale. Comfortable across backend, frontend and databases, he’s a *nix power user who prefers Vim and IntelliJ and brings an engineer’s rigor from communications theory into software design. Fluent in Hindi and adept at bridging hardware-software domains, he prefers NYC opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBS, EE, Electrical Engineering, BS, EE, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Hindi, English, German
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Github Skills (102)
srs10
spek10
anki10
android10
kotlin10
audio9
music9
low-level9
audio-player9
player9
retention9
roku8
cloud-foundry8
jdbc8
tax8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gajwani/kotlin-base
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
gajwani/pal-tracker
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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