Summary
Sahil Tikale is a Web3 Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs with 11 years of systems and cloud infrastructure experience and a PhD in Computer Engineering from Boston University. He specializes in designing cloud-scale, elastic bare-metal systems and applies market-based resource allocation, blockchain, smart contracts, and distributed consensus to real-world cloud problems. His academic work produced multiple publications and industry-adopted prototypes from the Mass Open Cloud project, bridging rigorous research with deployable solutions. Deep hands-on background in Unix/Linux, OpenStack, SLURM, Spark, SAN/NAS and networking complements his proficiency across several programming languages and frameworks. He has a history of solving operationally critical problems—from petascale storage at NUS to mission-critical banking systems—bringing both low-level systems craft and high-level economic models to infrastructure design. Based in Boston, he combines academic rigor with a practical bias to deliver innovative, production-ready distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information Systems, M.S., Information Systems at Nanyang Technological University
B.E, RUBBER TECHNOLOGY, B.E, RUBBER TECHNOLOGY at L.D.College of Engineering, Gujarat University
Hebron Higher Secondary School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Boston University
Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, English