Nikhil Kumar
Co-Founder at Drift
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Kumar is a founder and product-minded engineer with 9 years of experience building AI-infused consumer and mobility products across India and the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s co-founded multiple startups—scaling an AI fashion discovery platform to 40,000+ users and launching fintech/commerce apps—while currently leading a new venture, Drift. Earlier work at Qualcomm and IIT Roorkee focused on centimeter-level navigation, signal-processing for GPS, and vision-enabled robotics, reflecting a strong hardware-to-ML systems background. Comfortable from research and simulation to deployment, he blends deep technical execution with product instincts and a curiosity about human behavior and decision-making under uncertainty. An IIT Roorkee alumnus, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on experience shipping AI, sensor fusion, and robotics solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanPCM, PCM at Delhi Public School Indirapuram
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
ios9
cross-platform9
desktop9
windows9
android9
flutter9
macos9
dart8
material-design8
mobile8
web-framework7
app-framework6
mobile-game6
mobile-development6
fuchsia5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil1198/Mino-The-Friendly-Pet-Reaction-Bot
May 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
marsiitr/MINO-The-Reaction-Bot
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 1 month
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