Summary
Nikhil Kothari is a Senior Data Scientist based in Bengaluru with seven to eight years of experience building data-driven products and analytics at high-growth Indian tech companies. He progressed through multiple data science roles at PharmEasy—from Data Scientist to Lead Data Scientist—before joining Flipkart as a Senior Data Scientist, demonstrating strong domain experience in healthcare and e-commerce. Trained at IIT Kharagpur, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical production experience, shipping models and insights that influence product and business decisions. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on practitioner who can move from feature engineering to deployment and stakeholder-facing storytelling. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into greater leadership and ownership at crucial growth stages, making him effective at scaling teams and pipelines under rapid timelines.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur