Nikhil S. Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

I've been running proprietary trading algorithms with an annual ROI of 60%+ using my own capital- DEXs + Centralized Exchanges- Automated Systems- Automated TaxesAdditionally, I'm an angel investor in 150+ startups via direct investments, syndicates, and equity crowdfundingI’m investing in these areas:AI/ML/GPT-4/LLM, ClimateTech, FinTech, SpaceTech.

Served as CTO of the VC firm: whitepapers, digging into codebases (50+), running nodes for portfolio companies, finding security flaws, pitch calls, LP conversations, serve on the IC, set technical areas of interesting investment opportunities, public thought leadership through content, and laid the groundwork and process for deep technical diligence of.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Tech lead for R&D grant committee- Research Crypto Landscape for Crypto Bridges- Building Crypto Bridge solutions for Stellar- Continue running instances of Kelp trading bot internally for our production needs

San Francisco, CA, US

SDF is making financial inclusion a reality. We offer the lowest-cost and fastest public blockchain network for payments. The Stellar Network is used globally, particularly in places like Nigeria, Philippines, and Brazil.- Manage the Data Analytics and Liquidity team- Oversee two direct reports- Tech lead for R&D grant committee- Our team is responsible.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Develop Kelp open-source trading bot with 5,000+ downloads/month (https://kelpbot.io)- Operationalize Kelp for use within SDF- Convert Kelp into a service with a GUI for on-demand liquidity: Kelp-as-a-Service- Marketing activities to promote Kelp: content, partner education, ecosystem competitionsPrimary Technologies: Golang, Stellar, Blockchain.

San Francisco, CA, US

(sister company of the Stellar Development Foundation, see next position)- Developed and continue to maintain the most popular open-source cryptocurrency trading bot platform for the Stellar blockchain ecosystem, called Kelp: https://kelpbot.ioKelp is written in Golang and I've architected it to be extremely modular by design. By following SOLID design.

San Francisco, California, US

Duetto is a SaaS offering for the hotel industry. They provide a multi-tenant cloud-based Revenue Strategy solution to their customers (hotels). Duetto’s goal is to help their customers maximize revenue and profit using Duetto’s advanced Big Data Analytics and Dynamic Pricing solutions.I joined as Engineer #9 when the company had only 25 employees. I saw.

San Francisco, California, US

Some of the work I've done includes helping to build out our data infrastructure, integrations, internal networking frameworks, pricing algorithms development, demand forecasting, frontend architecture with React.js, data bucketing engine, ETL, reporting and charting, metadata handling, SOA architecture for scaling our dynamic pricing engine, JVM.

San Francisco, California, US

My work in the Message Queue Infrastructure Team at salesforce.com has allowed me to build systems that are fast, reliable, and most importantly scalable. Our internal service supports all the asynchronous traffic at salesforce.com. That includes traffic from web requests, developer APIs, database indexing jobs, batch jobs, search indexing, etc.My latest.

San Francisco, California, US

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AgreeOn is an app to help users split the bill with friends.- Developed the native iOS & Android apps- Architected and developed the backend, database schema, async jobs, and API web services- Hosted on Google App Engine (Java, Big Table)- Used multiple metric APIs to track user growth and retention- handled marketing for the app, Ads, SEO, social.

I was a participant of the Spring 2012 3DayStartup event and the lead iPhone developer for the company/project FixThis. Along with the team, I completed a fully-functional iPhone app and demoed it on the last (3rd) day. FixThis allows users to report maintenance requests in hotels, nursing homes, and corporate managed buildings by sending it electronically.

Running Debate Tournaments are hard. DebateTab provides a web-app to manage registration and tabulation during debate tournaments. It supported pdf file generation for competition brackets, sms notifications, and offline functionality (some schools don't have strong internet connections).

Seattle, WA, US

I worked in the Payment Instruments team, where I created a web-app to visualize and debug the data returned by internal APIs. Primary technologies used: Java, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Javascript.I also took part in two internal hackathons, and we ended up winning a prize in one of them where we also presented our idea to the payments mobile team.

Austin, TX, US

Oversaw the lab equipment for the Electrical Engineering Department at the university. Responsible for providing students with necessary equipment for lab projects and shutting down the lab at the end of the day.

Cupertino, California, US

Selected to attend an iOS development training camp held by Apple. We received lectures and demos from Apple engineers shortly after they presented at WWDC and had the opportunity to ask questions about their latest work on the iOS platform and received advice and tips on our app projects.****This was a week-long training camp only****

Superknit Industries is a manufacturer of high-quality cotton socks that was started by my father back in the 1970s and still operates today, selling to the local Indian market and also exporting to Europe.I automated the inventory management process to increase efficiency in the business with a Java desktop application serving as the central hub in this.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Created a web app to view and manage a patient's financial records. We incorporated fancy UI features like dynamic charts and drag-n-drop, which was well received and considered novel and innovative features for the product's UI. Towards the end, with time to spare, I modified the client to work as a mobile web app

Austin, TX, US

Tutored engineering students and simplified the concepts being taught in the classroom.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bba, Marketing

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