Summary
Nikhil Ghate is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building big-data systems at Visa and earlier enterprise BI and data warehousing solutions at Tata Consultancy Services. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UIC (3.85 GPA) and has practical experience across Hadoop MapReduce, ETL tools, Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL, and BI tooling including SAP BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports. At UIC he supported advanced CS courses as a teaching assistant, grounding his engineering work in algorithmic and systems fundamentals. His background also spans IT operations—Active Directory, SCCM, and ASP.NET—giving him a rare mix of production data engineering and hands-on infrastructure troubleshooting. Known for bridging analytics, backend systems, and operational reliability, he brings both enterprise-grade discipline and a developer’s curiosity to complex data challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.85, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.85 at University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, First Class with Distinction at Mumbai University