Nikil Viswanathan
Co-founder And CEO at Alchemy
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikil Viswanathan is a founder and technology CEO with 13 years of experience building high-growth consumer and developer platforms, currently leading Alchemy—an infrastructure provider that has powered over $100B in web3 transactions for tens of millions of users worldwide. He previously launched Down To Lunch, a viral social app that reached #1 in App Store social rankings and drew national press, and earlier built campus-scale products used across top universities. His background blends product leadership at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft with advanced AI and computer vision research from Stanford, giving him both operational scale expertise and technical depth. Nikil is skilled at turning rapid prototypes into breakout products and has a proven knack for developer-focused infrastructure that attracts top engineering talent and strategic backers. Based in Palo Alto, he often speaks on entrepreneurship and maintains strong ties to Stanford’s startup ecosystem. A less obvious strength: he repeatedly scales complex engineering processes (from build pipelines to global infra) in short timeframes, reducing operational friction while enabling fast product iteration.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (64)
timeago10
mobile-application10
ai10
ipad9
push-notifications9
wns9
django9
iphone9
viewcontroller9
wrapper8
python-client8
blockchain8
ethereum8
uinavigationcontroller8
popup8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nikilster/NSDate-Time-Ago
Apr 2013 - Sep 2017
Implements Facebook's format for Time Ago (on their mobile apps)
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 5 months
mobile-applicationtimeago
nikilster/clawflows
Feb 2026 - May 2026
⚡️ Superpowers for your Openclaw. Powerful prebuilt agent workflows.
Contributions:1 PR, 97 pushes, 3 comments in 2 months
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