Nikhil Kumar is a founder and hands-on CIO with nine years of experience building full-stack and embedded systems, currently leading product and engineering at Farmako (YC S20) from Gurugram. An IIT Roorkee alumnus, he blends startup leadership with deep technical execution—having architected infrastructure and shipped web and backend systems across roles from Head of Technology to embedded software engineer. He regularly bridges hardware-software boundaries, a thread visible in projects like high-altitude balloon work and sensor-driven roles at Smart Fruit Nose. Pragmatic and product-focused, Nikhil pairs rapid prototyping fluency with long-term operational thinking, and maintains a public presence at itsniks.com that highlights his founder-engineer mindset.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
SSC PCM, SSC PCM at Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Bangalore
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