Nikunj Thakkar (@nikunjness)

Nikunj Thakkar

Founder @dataoneio | City Lead, Ahmedabad Chapter, Headstart Network Foundation @headstarters @ssahmedabad | #DevOps #FOSS #GSoCer #Startups #Bigdata

Mr. Nikunj Thakkar is the Co-founder & CEO of DataOne Innovation Labs, a business solutions company started in 2016, with a strong focus in analytical solutions, product development, and IoT implementations. He holds a degree for Master of Science in Information and Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and communication technology (DA-IICT). Nikunj is also the Lead at the Gujarat Chapter of Headstart Network Foundation where he leads initiatives like Startup Saturday and the Headstart Mentor, while managing the Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara team and arranging city wide entrepreneurship events.

Nikunj is currently building Shoppr.ai - A customer science platform for E-Commerce entrepreneurs. Shoppr enables e-commerce entrepreneurs design data driven marketing to generate more ROI for their marketing budget.

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