Summary
Nikhil Khanna is a CTO and co-founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building production software across mobile, data science, and cloud infrastructure. He co-founded Archera, driving automated AWS cost savings of 30%+ with zero-engineering changes, and has led ML-driven supply chain work for a Fortune 500 retailer. Early career internships at Facebook, Uber, and D. E. Shaw show a track record of shipping product features, large-scale forecasting, and market-simulation research that influenced trading algorithms. A multi-platform developer (Objective-C, Java, Python, JavaScript) and indie game founder, he has published popular iOS and Android games and built big-data visualizations used by companies like Zillow and Exxon. He combines product-focused engineering with applied ML experience—training neural nets, deploying image classifiers on AWS, and creating interactive analytics for billions of points. Based in Bellevue, WA, he maintains an active GitHub of projects and ships end-to-end solutions from prototype to production.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of Washington
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
High School Diploma Computer Science Honors Math Honors Science, High School Diploma Computer Science Honors Math Honors Science at Lakeside School
English, Spanish