Nikhil Ikhar
Senior Software Security Engineer II at DigitalOcean
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Ikhar is a Senior Software Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building and hardening scalable, reliable systems across cloud-native and networking domains. Now at DigitalOcean after leading systems engineering at Freshworks, he specializes in embedding architectural best practices, design reviews, and incident management to elevate operational excellence. His background spans product development, SDN, and platform engineering from roles at Cisco, Incedo, and startups, giving him a rare blend of security, networking, and platform design expertise. He mentors engineers in advanced architectural patterns and cloud cost optimization, consistently translating long-term standards into measurable reliability gains. Based in Oregon with advanced technical degrees from IIIT-Bangalore, he pairs deep hands-on implementation experience with a track record of driving team-wide technical culture change.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech Information Technology, M.Tech Information Technology at IIIT-Bangalore12th HSC, 12th HSC at Amravati UniversityMaster of Technology (MTech) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Technology (MTech) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreB.E Electronics Engineering, B.E Electronics Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (64)
web-application10
python10
anki10
design-patterns10
system10
webapp10
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
system-design9
machine-learning9
gpu9
parsing9
deep-learning9
fastai9
driver8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nik-hil/ai-notebook
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nik-hil/nik-hil.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jun 2023
https://nik-hil.github.io/
Contributions:14 PRs, 93 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years 6 months
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