Nikhil Tiwari

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of a medical AI startup.
  • Led development of an AI chatbot at IIT Bombay.
  • Developed an NFT Marketplace with extensive blockchain integration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Blockchain and AI-focused Software Engineer with strong full-stack capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabase Management System (dbms)Live Video StreamingRecommender SystemsTeam LeadershipLarge Language Models (llm)Amazon Web Services (aws)Web DevelopmentLeadershipBlockchain Architecture

Other Skills

3jsAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsAngularJSArtificial Intelligence (AI)AutoCADAvalancheBig DataBlockchainBootstrapC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationComputer NetworkingComputer Science

About

A passionate software engineer.

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Frekil (yc x25)

Co-founder & CEO

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Building data engine for medical AI

Stripe

2 roles

Software Engineer

Oct 2024Jan 2025 · 3 mos

  • Transactional databases team (Infra for Postgresql - Proxy, Control-Plane, HADR, custom DSL)
  • Working on tier 0 systems to increase reliability and performance

Software Engineer

Jul 2024Oct 2024 · 3 mos

  • Working in core Infrastructure and Networks, part of document database (Mongo) Control Plane team
  • Worked on project to enable self healing of mongo clusters
GolangDistributed SystemsNetwork InfrastructureMongoDBDatabase Management System (DBMS)

Truscroll

SWE Intern

May 2024Jul 2024 · 2 mos · Washington, United States · Remote

  • Worked on tokenising luxurious watches - enabling new purchases, third party selling, markeplace (P2P) and certified pre-owned watch listings and sales on polygon chain.

The arena

SDE & AI/ML Intern

Dec 2023Apr 2024 · 4 mos · New York, United States · Remote

  • 1. Worked on Arena stages (similar to spaces in X/twitter) - a voice broadcast platform with features like Zoom/Gmeet. Added features to record, ticket-gate and access control to the system.
  • 2. Worked on enabling features like nested replies, quotes, post checks, etc on Arena similar to X
Recommender SystemsNestJSLive Video StreamingAngularJSAvalanche

Ai community, iit-bombay

Founding Partner

Aug 2023Apr 2024 · 8 mos · India

  • Took an initiative to establish AI Community at IIT Bombay to promote and collaborate on AI/ML projects, hackathons and develop teams with expertise in various AI disciplines.
  • Led a team of 5 to develop InstiGPT, an AI chatbot to answer all institute related queries in depth and redirect to relevant contacts leveraging RAG on open source models (Llama) and Gemini
Team LeadershipLarge Language Models (LLM)

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

May 2023Jul 2023 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Received Pre-placement offer
  • Built a full-stack application to handle inter company transactions using GraphQL, Rest APIs, Coral Lambda, EBS, EMR, DDB, S3, onboarded Cognito-Federate for authentication (OIDC) and deployed on AWS.
  • Utilised AWS infrastructures like DDB, S3, EventBridge & developed REST APIs using Coral Lambda in Java
  • Created a frontend along with Authorization Stack using Cognito-Federate to manage inter-company transfers
  • Deployed app on CloudFormation & perfomed a PoC around AWS AppSync, developing GraphQL APIs
  • Learnt Software Development Lifecycle, CI/CD pipeline deployment & wrote Low Level Design of APIs
  • Skills: Software Development Lifecycle, Java, Python
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Marsh mclennan

Blockchain Technology Intern (Decentralised Finance)

May 2022Oct 2022 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Researched on Blockchains, DeFi Protocols (uniswap, Etherisk, etc), Tokens, Security aspects and audit tools of Blockchain smart contracts, various staking platforms and used ReactJS, NodeJS and web3.js to integrate contracts to web applications
  • Developed an MMCT/DAI exchange on Ethereum blockchain and deployed it as a lambda on AWS
  • Utilised Uniswap to script a liquidity pool of DAI/MMCT with Gaussian distribution of positions
  • Implemented DeFi investment strategy using self written Financial Controller Contract in Solidity
  • Automated staking of the collateral to Compound Protocol and stored the cTokens back in contract
  • Created an API for smart contract security audit using Mythril, Securify, Manticore and Slither
web3.jsSmart ContractsNode.jsweb3EthereumBlockchain Architecture+7

Institute technical council, iit bombay

Blockchain Mentor

May 2022Jun 2022 · 1 mo · IIT Bombay

  • Mentored 7 students to make them acquainted with Blockchain and DeFi technologies and the use cases
  • Collaborated to make a decentralised Zombie game on Solidity and linked to frontend using web3.0

Student alumni relations cell, iit bombay

2 roles

Core Team Member | Web Portfolio Head

Apr 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Spearheaded a team of 5 coordinators facilitating relations among 60K+ alumni, 10K+ students with 4M+ budget
  • Technical Responsibilities -
  • Reduced overall server cost by 60% by VPS migration and optimisation of codebase
  • Maintained 10+ domains using Nginx reverse proxy over Gunicorn and PM2 servers
  • Administered digital ocean droplet with 4 vCPUs and 8GB/160GB disk space
  • Developed a centralised website to streamline all portals for 10K+ students in institute
  • Professional --
  • Managed the CSR conclave participated by 200+ corporate tycoons with a budget of 10M+
  • Organised 8 reunions for 2k+ alumni, including 1st ever gathering of 30+ civil servants
  • Conducted largest student-alumni fest, Alumination with 30+ events & footfall of 20K+
LeadershipJavaScriptDjangoMachine LearningNode.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)+18

Web Coordinator

Jun 2021Apr 2022 · 10 mos

  • 1. Interacted with 100+ Alumni of IITB during the 34th Phonathon, the telephonic marathon of IIT Bombay
  • 2. Responsibe for developing various full stack web applications- PMP, ASMP, ILP, Alumination, Sarc-Tank, Sarcasm, Yearbook leading to 5000+ registrations and 150 % y-o-y increase using the Django framework
  • 4. Used Node.JS, ReactJS, Django, Three.JS, AnimeJS, ParticleJS, MySQL for development of websites
JavaWeb DevelopmentPythonProgrammingSQL

Xrp ledger community

Campus Ambassador

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Mumbai · Remote

Spacetime.one

Blockchain Web Developer

Dec 2021Jan 2022 · 1 mo

  • 1. Developed an NFT Marketplace using ReactJS, ExpressJS, web3.js after extensive research on Blockchains
  • 2. Provided features to mint NFTs on Solana and Polygon blockchains, allowed sale and purchase of NFTs using
  • created internal wallet and user got added to group of the collection whose NFTs he owned where he could post
  • images, like, comment on the posts and upload merchandises for sale within the community
  • 3. Stored NFTs and metadata on IPFS and Filecoin blockchain using Web3.storage for permanence on web
  • 4. Consumed APIs for KYC, Contact Number and Email Verifications and researched on onramp/offramp services
Web DevelopmentPython

Student satellite program, iit bombay

Web Developer

May 2021Apr 2022 · 11 mos · Mumbai

  • 1. Part of a 70+ member team aiming to make IITB a Centre of Excellence in Satellite and Space Technology
  • 2. Revamped the official website of IITB Student Satellite Program using PHP, HTML, CSS, JS and Bootstrap
  • 3. Collaborated with 8+ members of Non-Tech Subsystem to increase the outreach and publicity of IITBSSP
  • through social media platforms like Facebook(5.7K+ followers) and Instagram(500+ followers)

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Teaching Assistant

Feb 2021Jul 2021 · 5 mos · Mumbai

  • 1. Conducted 8 classes to teach and clarify doubts of 16 students across all departments of IIT Bombay
  • 2. Managed a lot of Online Activities like story narration to make learning a fun experience

E-cell, iit bombay

Event Organizer

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • 1. Part of the Entrepreneurship Cell, IITB which is the Asia’s Largest Entrepreneurship Promoting college body
  • 2. Organized competitions (Triathlon, Boardroom) in E-Summit’21 resulting in 60% y-o-y growth
  • 3. Reached out to 50+ entrepreneurship bodies on social media for increasing outreach of the event
Smart ContractsEthereumBlockchain ArchitecturePolygonSolanaWeb Development+2

National cadet corps

Cadet

Nov 2020Jul 2021 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Completed an year long training as a Cadet at NCC(National Cadet Corps), IIT Bombay

Education

Y Combinator

Make something people want

Apr 2025Jun 2025

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Mechanical Engineering with Dual Minor in Computer Science Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Oct 2020Jul 2024

University of Geneva

Bachelor's degree [Semester Exchange] — Finance and Financial Management Services

Feb 2024Jun 2024

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