Summary
Nikhil Komawar is a seasoned Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale cloud and distributed systems, specializing in Python, Flask, microservices and IaaS. He has been a core OpenStack contributor and project lead (Glance, Searchlight), shaping APIs and deployment practices used by major operators and influencing corporate cloud architectures at IBM and Rackspace. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and team lead, he has architected middleware, ORMs and serverless solutions while mentoring new contributors and running community governance. More recently he has focused on open-source projects and Python web apps as an independent consultant, including practical work integrating AWS Lambda and DynamoDB for serverless storage. Known for translating complex cloud requirements into maintainable code, he also has a track record of improving libraries (e.g., python-docx) to meet real-world formatting and interoperability needs.
12 years of coding experience