Nikhil  Jha - Senior Software Engineer at Cisco

Nikhil Jha

Senior Software Engineer at Cisco

Nikhil graduated from Manipal in 2020, studying computer science and he has mixed experience in both Tech and Operations.

He started his first venture during his second year of college - a campus-centric food delivery platform that connects campus students and local restaurants, delivering food to student hostel rooms. He bootstrapped that business to $50K ARR in one year.

He is currently working with Cisco as a senior software engineer, Previously, he worked with the unicorn startup Razorpay, and prior to that, he worked with an early-stage startup where he worked across multiple roles in software and product lifecycle and scale the product from 0 to 1 while also being involved in hiring, onboarding, and planning.

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