Nikhil Aourpally

Co-Founder

Mountain View, California, United States10 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founder and CEO of multiple startups
Expert in building distributed systems
Strong leadership in tech and team building

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and technical leadership.

Contact

nikhil.thewizard@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipTechnical LeadershipPaymentsTech LeadershipJavaDistributedApache SparkSql

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS ECSAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)AWS LambdaAmazon DynamodbAmazon ECSAmazon RedshiftAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon S3Amazon SNSAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache CassandraApache ParquetApache Spark SQL

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Odf

Founder Fellow

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Flow

Founder & CEO

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Cloudrift

Fractional CTO

Feb 2024 – Sep 2024 · 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Bootstrapped a GPU orchestration engine, hired and built a team.

EntrepreneurshipTechnical LeadershipTeam BuildingRust (Programming Language)

Ascend

Technical Lead

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Payments platform for the insurance space.

PaymentsReact.jsNext.jsRubySoftware DesignTech leadership

Netflix

Technical Lead

Apr 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Led design of a fault-tolerant distributed system for payments, disclosures, and title indexing at Netflix; drove cross-team OKR planning for financial data systems in content production.

JavaPythonAWS ECSMySQLAmazon RedshiftDistributed+2

Amazon

2 roles

Tech Lead - Alexa

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

I built and scaled a distributed system achieving 1,000 TPS by assembling and leading a high-performing team of developers and QA professionals, while establishing strategic partnerships with a leading Mobile Network Operator and three major automotive firms to drive connectivity in Alexa-enabled vehicles; I also spearheaded the transformation of the Alexa-Cortana integration framework by guiding a team of five developers to transition from a monolithic service to a microservice architecture, boosting developer velocity by 50% and enhancing overall agility.

SDE1 & SDE2 - Alexa

Jun 2016 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

Designed and developed the platform layer component for Alexa, managing 5000 TPS for a multi-agent handoff experience. Launched the Celebrity Voices product on the platform and created the first-ever Alexa-Cortana interoperable experience with Microsoft. Developed extractor components for an ETL platform processing 1B+ financial transactions.

Levyx, inc.

Big Data Engineering Intern

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · United States

Apache SparkApache Spark SQLApache CassandraApache ParquetSpark-Cassandra connectorSQL+10

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Software Engineer

May 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

I built recommendation systems for Samsung Smart TV using Java, Hadoop, and Apache Mahout. I developed a production-grade engine using ALS-based collaborative filtering and also designed a personalized hotel and restaurant recommender based on user location.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

I worked on L2/L3 development of the LTE eNodeB protocol stack in C on UNIX, gaining hands-on experience with networking, OS concepts, and socket programming.