Nishikant Parmar

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Promoted to Tech Lead at D.E. Shaw Group.
  • Developed high-engagement web and mobile applications.
  • Organized multiple coding contests and hackathons.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with a strong focus on educational technology.

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Web DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentWeb DesignGraphic DesignSketchingUser Interface DesignPython (Programming Language)PHPNode.jsMongoDBFlutterJavaJavaScriptNoSQLjQuery

About

Tech Lead at D.E. Shaw India at their Core Tech department and have graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. Feel free to connect and drop a message! Github: github.com/nishikantparmariam github.com/nishikantparmariam1

Experience

6 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

The d. e. shaw group

5 roles

Lead, Tech

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos

  • Got super-star performer promotion (again).

Senior Member, Tech (Software Engineer II)

Promoted

Jan 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Got super-star performer promotion.

Member, Tech (Software Engineer I)

May 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Received highest package from my campus.

Software Developer Intern

Jan 2022Apr 2022 · 3 mos

  • Opted for a return internship by graduating early from IIT Gandhinagar in 3.5 years instead of 4 years.

Software Developer Intern

May 2021Jul 2021 · 2 mos · India

  • Received pre-placement full-time offer (PPO) based on performance during internship

Codechef campus chapter - grasp - iit gandhinagar

Core Member

Aug 2020May 2021 · 9 mos

  • GRASP - Group for Algorithms & Sports Programming
  • o Organized and Set Problems in Convex Hull 2.0 and 2.3 (ACM-Style Coding Contest) hosted on CodeChef.
  • o Solutions are available here - https://cutt.ly/GjIhAt0, https://cutt.ly/fjIhSsS
  • o Set Problems, Wrote Test Cases, Hosted Coding Contests, and Upsolving Sessions
  • o Organized Workshops related to Competitive Programming
  • o Motivated Coding Culture at the Institute

Technical council iitgn

Backend Developer • Institute App "InsIIT"

May 2020May 2020 · 0 mo

  • Contributed to Backend Development of the Institute App [1000+ Downloads on Play Store and 4.9 Rating], built under Students' Summer Online Projects (SSOP) 2020, Technical Council IIT Gandhinagar
  • Designed REST APIs for a Feed System using MongoDB, NodeJs+ExpressJs, Heroku, Postman that allows a user to :
  • o Post a feed with multiple images, text data, hashtags
  • o Fetch customized feed with hashtags and pagination for a particular user
  • o Follow/unfollow hashtags & post comments on any feed
  • o React (Like/Upvote/Joy etc.) on posts and their comments

Indian institute of technology gandhinagar

Problem Setter & Organizer - HackRush • Annual Intra College Hackathon

Dec 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gandhinagar

  • Year 2021 -
  • o Hosted a workshop in online mode on web development, taught HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to 50+ participants (The average rating received from participants was 9/10).
  • o Made a problem statement on a real-life problem and assisted in organizing a week-long edition of the Hackathon.
  • Year 2020 -
  • o Organized a 36-hours long hackathon with a team of 10 people
  • o Crafted a real-life problem into a hackathon problem statement and guided teams to reach a working prototype
  • o Designed T-shirts, Stickers, Logo for the hackathon

Amalthea, iit gandhinagar

2 roles

Full Stack Web & Mobile App Developer, Graphic Designer

Promoted

May 2019Oct 2019 · 5 mos · India

  • o Led the website design team.
  • o Developed the official website (Year 2019) [having 4700+ Users] from scratch with unique UI and functionalities. Visit here : https://amalthea.iitgn.ac.in/2019/index.php (Other pages have been taken down).
  • o Built a file submission/monitoring, and points management web interface for Campus Ambassadors
  • o Developed the official mobile app [1400+ Downloads on Play Store and 4.8 Rating, first-ever app from IIT Gandhinagar to reach this many downloads] with push notifications, live updates, and dynamic data rendering features
  • o Website and App reached all-time high engagement from previous years.
  • o Designed posters and banners for this summit
  • o Technologies Used - JavaScript/jQuery, HTML+CSS, Bootstrap, Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, Push Notifications, Cloud Storage), Flutter Framework, Google Sheets, Adobe Photoshop
  • o Took workshop on web development by teaching how to design a chat web app using Firebase and JS. The workshop witnessed ~100 participants and most of them were able to design their own web app at the end of workshop.

Graphic Designer

Aug 2018Apr 2019 · 8 mos · India

Indian institute of technology gandhinagar

Backend Developer - Hallabol • Annual Sports Fest

Mar 2019Apr 2019 · 1 mo

  • Developed a Reset Password functionality for PHP+MySQL Website of the Event.

Technical council iitgn

Participant • Technical Council Winter Projects

Dec 2018Dec 2018 · 0 mo · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

  • o Built a real-time chat app in Andriod in a span of one month from scratch.
  • o Tech Stack : Java+XML, Android, Firebase
  • o The app can be found at https://github.com/nishikantparmariam/Live-Chat-App

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2022

Subhash English School, Mandsaur

Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education — Physics Chemistry Mathematics

Jul 2015Jul 2017

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