Summary
Nikhil Kulkarni is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building end-to-end, production-grade systems across both large enterprises and early-stage startups. He has delivered scalable features at Microsoft and Salesforce—optimizing data pipelines, standardizing security event formats, and cutting cloud costs—while also launching core backend infrastructure as a founding engineer at ITILITE. Comfortable across distributed systems, APIs, and authentication patterns, he’s shipped work that’s been documented officially and reduced operational latencies and incident resolution times. Nikhil combines product-first thinking with hands-on implementation, enjoys designing robust, scalable solutions, and has a knack for squeezing performance and cost-efficiency out of complex systems. Based in Bengaluru and an IIT Delhi alumnus, he also mentors and builds quick, impact-driven prototypes such as RAG-based tools for extracting sales insights.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
English, Hindi, Marathi