Nikhil Prakash
Founding Engineer Principal Engineer at Helius
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Prakash is a founding and principal engineer with 11 years of experience building and integrating cloud-native and serverless platforms from Bengaluru. He has led teams through acquisitions and product integrations—most recently driving Nimbella’s serverless control plane into DigitalOcean—and now shapes platform strategy at Helius. His background spans low-level networking and high-performance protocol work at Aryaka to unikernel research at IBM, giving him a rare combination of systems-level depth and product-focused engineering leadership. Known for shipping practical integrations (Netlify, Postman, OpenWhisk) and developer-facing tooling, he excels at turning complex distributed systems into reliable, user-facing services. Colleagues rely on him for architecting scalable control planes and for mentoring teams through technically risky transitions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBE Information Science, BE Information Science at B. M. S. College of EngineeringKarnataka State board, Karnataka State board at Sri Kumarans Children's HomePre university Physics Chemistry Maths Electronics, Pre university Physics Chemistry Maths Electronics at SKCH Pre University College
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Github Skills (195)
kvm10
hyper-v10
pcapng10
openbsd10
gcp10
security10
vms10
unikernel10
operating-system10
sniffer10
hypervisor10
cloud-services10
libvirt10
vdi10
libpcap10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
niks3089/solo5
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
The Solo5 unikernel
Contributions:2 PRs, 232 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 3 months
solo5unikernel
niks3089/IncludeOS
Jan 2018 - May 2019
A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
Contributions:293 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 3 months
gcpcloud-servicesvmsresource-efficientunikernel
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