Nirvana Tikku
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorNirvana Tikku is a Principal Software Architect with 16 years of experience building and leading large-scale software and platform initiatives, currently shaping architecture at Microsoft in New York. She progressed through technical and product leadership roles at Nuance—rising from senior engineer to Nuance Fellow and director—demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product management, and strategic innovation in conversational AI and platform services. Known for a "Just Build It" ethos and a confidence-first mindset reflected in her GitHub tagline, she excels at turning ambiguous problems into production systems that scale. Her background in electrical engineering and early international internships inform a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach and comfort operating across global teams and complex technical domains.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
jquery10
cdn10
bots10
azure-functions10
text-to-speech10
natural-language-understanding10
dialog10
chrome-extension10
inheritance10
youtube-player10
ivr10
conversational-ai10
js10
javascript9
tradingview9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nirvanatikku/bittrex-enhanced
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
"Bittrex Enhanced" --- A chrome extension that enhances Bittrex by providing USD and BTC values alongside BTC, USDT & ETH, and swaps chart with TradingView widget
Contributions:10 releases, 13 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 6 months
chrome-extensiontradingviewbittrexjavascriptcryptocurrency
nuance-communications/mix-quickstart-projects
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Nuance Mix QuickStart Projects
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
dialognatural-language-understandingnluconversational-aibots
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