Nikhil Nair
Engineering at HelloFresh
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Nair is a senior backend and platform engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of hands-on experience building reliable, scalable systems across logistics, finance, and enterprise platforms. He has driven platform architecture and operational excellence at cargo.one and now contributes engineering leadership at HelloFresh, focusing on backend services, integrations, and production reliability. His background spans blockchain R&D and prototyping—exploring DLT use cases in asset management and building rapid prototyping infrastructure with Kubernetes and CI/CD—bringing a pragmatic view of trust, privacy, and automation. Nikhil pairs deep operational experience (incident response, post-mortems, internal tooling) with strong documentation and engineering principles advocacy that have been widely adopted by teams he’s worked with. He’s motivated by technologies that strengthen individual freedom and resilient societies, favoring solutions that are robust yet minimally intrusive. Outside core engineering duties he frequently translates production insights into process improvements and data integrations (PgSQL ↔ BigQuery/dbt) to drive measurable business impact.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B-Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering at College of Engineering TrivandrumUndergraduate Science, Undergraduate Science at Model High School (Port Blair)B-Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B-Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Kerala
Hindi, Malayalam, English, german (b1)
Github Skills (19)
ubuntu7
cli5
shell5
jupyter-notebook5
linux5
kubernetes-cluster5
jupyterhub5
jupyter4
blockchain4
kubernetes3
java2
bitcoin2
crypto2
data-structures2
helm2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilkrishna/big-org.github.io
May 2016 - Sep 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
blockchaininterestinterest-group
nikhilkrishna/toychainjs
Jan 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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