Summary
Nikhil Malhotra is a seasoned innovation leader with 11 years of experience driving emerging-technology strategy and delivery at Tech Mahindra, where he serves as Chief Innovation Officer. He blends deep technical expertise in AI, NLP, and quantum computing with hands-on development experience across Python, Objective-C, Qt, AngularJS and mobile frameworks to turn research into customer-centric products. His career spans technical architecture and senior engineering roles at IBM, AT&T and Batelco, giving him strong delivery and pre-sales chops for large enterprise accounts. Nikhil’s background in distributed computing (MTech, RMIT) and early work on Microsoft and cloud technologies underpin a pragmatic approach to integrating novel tech into production. Colleagues describe him as a builder who bridges R&D and business value, often prototyping cross-disciplinary solutions that inform strategic roadmaps. Based in Pune, he combines global perspective with a track record of operationalizing complex, client-facing innovation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BTech Electronics, BTech Electronics at S.E.S.C.O.E
MTech Computers distributed computing , MTech Computers distributed computing at RMIT University
English, Hindi, Punjabi