Jun 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

Jan 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad

• Cofounder and CTO of Bucker.
• I supervised the complete technology stack of the application from the android application to the backend server. Also, directly responsible for the total implementation and maintenance of the backend services.
• Developed a scalable and high performance REST APIs for the application to interact with and fetch data from the server.
• Developed a system to collect data from various ecommerce websites and compare prices of similar products.
• Developed a system to collect availability, prices and surge of cabs nearby and compare prices.
• Developed a system to collect availability and prices of flights and provide user with cheapest flight tickets based on results from multiple other aggregators.
• Develop and maintain internal tools to facilitate smoother functioning and automating otherwise tedious timeconsuming tasks.
• All system administration tasks related to our production server.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 · 6 mos

• Worked for the Ads team in Flipkart. Our team was responsible for providing the APIs for the seller application to interact with the backend data.

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos

• Qualified for Google Summer of Code third time in a row and got to work with Boost C++ Libraries for the second time.
• During the summer, I worked on an implementation of a fixed-point library based on the proposal:
• http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3352.html.
• The core work involved developing a series of templates and template specializations that embodied the fixed-point numbers in various precision ranges. The library is currently in the community review stage.
• https://github.com/Nikhar/fixed_point

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

• This was the second time I had qualified for the prestigious Google Summer of Code Project sponsored by Google for the open source organization GNOME Foundation.
• I spent my summer working on the following two paths:
• Built a new AI that scaled appropriately with different difficulty levels for Connect Four. The new AI is now shipped with the official GNOME distribution.
• Complete Repo: https://github.com/GNOME/four-in-a-row/
• Relevant work: https://github.com/Nikhar/four-in-a-row/tree/wip/ai
• Designed a scores library – libgames-scores which could be used by all GNOME games and integrated the library with some existing games. This library is now an official GNOME project under the name libgnome-games-support
• Complete Repo: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome-games-support/
• Relevant work: https://github.com/Nikhar/libgames-scores

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked for Bing Search Engine, Local Content team.
• Extracted semantic markup chain entities for the en-GB market.
• Worked on a classifier that could classify web pages based on their structural properties and suggest appropriate annotators and entifiers to be used.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013 · 3 mos

• This was the first time I had qualified for the prestigious Google Summer of Code Project sponsored by Google for the open source organization Boost C++ Libraries. I successfully completed the program.
• During this program, I succesfully implemented high performing mathematical functions for multiprecision types under Boost.Math library. The work done is now shipped in the latest BOOST releases. I am listed as a codeveloper of Boost.Math
• Relevant work: https://github.com/Nikhar/boost.math