Nikhil Sikka
Senior Software Engineer at DeepL
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikhil Sikka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building scalable, design-driven front-end systems and design systems for web products. He has led technical decisions and cross-functional collaboration at Nord Security and now contributes to DeepL, combining hands-on React and CSS work with mentoring and process improvements. Nikhil has a track record of creating reusable component libraries and multi-brand design systems used to speed up CMS-driven workflows and marketing sites. He’s contributed UX-focused features to open-source tooling like Excalibur, implementing draggable columns and improvements that boost PDF table extraction usability. Comfortable navigating product, design, SEO and infra constraints, he excels at translating content and business needs into polished, maintainable interfaces. Outside work he brings a lighthearted touch—listed on GitHub as an “Eater of French Fries”—hinting at a practical, approachable personality.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Application Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityHigh School Business/Commerce General, High School Business/Commerce General at St. Francis De Sales School, JanakpuriMasters of Computer Application Computer Science, Masters of Computer Application Computer Science at Bharati Vidyapeeth
English, Hindi, German, Punjabi
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Github Skills (16)
css10
javascript10
ui-design10
datatable9
html-table9
datatables9
pdf9
authorization6
json6
django-rest-framework6
angular-routing6
python6
angular6
post6
django6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
camelot-dev/excalibur
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikhil's contributions primarily focused on front-end development, specifically related to the "excalibur" web interface. They added and modified JavaScript and CSS files to implement a column redesign, including the addition of draggable columns and the associated styling. These changes involved modifying existing functions and adding new features to the user interface, indicating a focus on improving the user experience within the application.
extractionpythonpdfweb-interfacetabular-data
sebastianspiller/sesps-storybord
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Learning to use storyboard for a better understanding of React
Contributions:13 reviews, 12 comments in 8 days
reactunderstandingstoryboardstorybookreactjs
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