Nikhil Kansal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorNikhil Kansal is a founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building developer-facing platforms and cloud-native infrastructure, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Cara to modernize insurance. He previously scaled core systems at Stripe across multiple engineering levels and co-founded Aurora, an AI voice API platform, and Oyster, reflecting a strong product-first entrepreneurship streak. His background spans systems work—from containerization and fleet automation to high-throughput storage and analytics—rooted in hands-on execution at Quora, Cisco, and Stripe internships. A UCLA MS/BS CS graduate, he also led large student engineering organizations and shipped projects that improved CI performance, reduced latency, and delivered practical ML and image-processing tools. Colleagues describe him as detail-obsessed: he blends deep technical craft with product intuition to turn complex, platform-level problems into developer-friendly experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (48)
campus10
nodejs-stream10
speech-to-text9
oauth9
react9
backend9
frontend8
speech-recognition8
embedded8
deep-learning8
nextjs8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
tailscale8
wireguard8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
auroraapi/aurora-go
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
golangaurorasdk
nkansal96/alohamora
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Automatic push policy generation via reinforcement learning
Contributions:167 commits, 123 PRs, 291 pushes in 8 months
reinforcement-learning
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