Vikrant Pogula
Co-Founder at Nikola Tech
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolVikrant Pogula is a seasoned software founder and architect with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable, full-stack SaaS products for the restaurant industry. As co-founder and technical architect of Nikola Tech, he led product design, raised financing, grew the team to 10, and onboarded 200+ businesses while reaching the YC S2016 final interview. He designs end-to-end systems spanning Angular/React frontends, Django/Node backends, PostgreSQL multi-tenant architectures, and cloud infrastructure on AWS with Ansible and NGINX. Vikrant has deep hardware and offline-first expertise—implementing peer-to-peer LAN sync, cross-platform Electron apps, and native integrations for printers and payment devices. Early work at Fueled honed his MVP and DevOps instincts, and his open-source contributions include improving AWS S3 automation in Codeship scripts to streamline CI/uploads. Based in Jersey City, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic engineering across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java and C.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Spanish, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (6)
aws-s310
bash10
shell10
cil9
logging6
varnish6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codeship/scripts
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Scripts for use on Codeship Basic
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vikrant primarily focused on enhancing the `aws_s3.sh` script within the `codeship/scripts` repository. Their contributions included adding support for AWS S3 CLI arguments, improving folder upload functionality, and adjusting the command used for synchronization. The user also made minor adjustments like typo fixes and comment changes to refine the script's functionality. This work aimed to provide improved S3 interaction capabilities within the Codeship Basic environment.
codeshipshellbashcdci
vikrantpogula/scripts
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
codeshippythonuseful-scriptssimilar
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