Nikhil Khandelwal
Engineering Manager at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Khandelwal is an engineering manager with over 15 years of hands-on technical leadership, currently scaling infrastructure teams at Google to manage fleets of millions of Cloud SaaS instances. He has a proven track record growing teams from single digits to 20+ engineers and partnering across organizations to deliver high-impact platforms—at Microsoft he led initiatives adopted by hundreds of service teams that reduced toil, improved uptime, and cut latency by orders of magnitude. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he has shipped runtime and diagnostics improvements in Chakra and contributed to Apache Cordova projects, improving build tooling and documentation for a widely used cross-platform mobile runtime. He builds empowered cultures where engineers own customer problems and learn from failures, while driving technical direction and operational excellence. Based in Seattle, Nikhil blends deep systems performance experience with large-scale SaaS lifecycle management, and brings a track record of practical, cross-team migrations and platform overhauls.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng., Computer Engineering, First Class Honours Degree, B. Eng., Computer Engineering, First Class Honours Degree at Nanyang Technological UniversityDon Bosco Park Circus
Github Skills (18)
debug10
javascript10
cordova10
android-sdk10
java10
javas10
android10
build-automation10
mobile10
nodejs10
gradlew10
documentation10
gradle10
git9
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cordova-android
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Apache Cordova Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 96 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the Apache Cordova Android project by addressing build-related issues and implementing enhancements. Their work included fixing build command arguments, adding signing flag support, and updating the project to use Gradle 2.8 and then 2.13 correctly. They also made adjustments to improve keystore handling and added logging for package names, enhancing the build process and providing more informative output.
cordova-platformcordovaapache-cordovajavascriptandroid
apache/cordova-lib
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Apache Cordova Tooling Library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 120 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the Apache Cordova tooling library. Their work included addressing build configuration issues, fixing spacing, correcting spelling errors, and resolving syntax errors, improving overall code quality. They also worked on improving the codebase by removing unnecessary cache-min and improving the loading time. These changes indicate a focus on both the core functionality and efficiency of the Cordova library.
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptapache
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