Nikhil Khanna
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Chief Architect and Co-founder
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Jobs
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Chief Architect and Co-founderArcheraAug 2026 - Current (3 months)Saving customers 30%+ on their AWS, Azure, and GCP bills in less than 10 minutes with zero-engineering changes or application risk.- CTO and Co-founderArcheraJun 2019 - Aug 2026 (7 years 3 months)Saving customers 30%+ on their AWS, Azure, and GCP bills in less than 10 minutes with zero-engineering changes or application risk.
- GCo-FounderGlia IntelligenceFeb 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 5 months)Co-Founded a physical-retail focused machine learning consulting practice, provided supply chain optimization services via deep learning to a large Fortune 500 retailer.
- Data Science InternUberJun 2017 - Sep 2017 (4 months)Utilized Uber trip data to analyze a cash debt problem in Latin America. Using Python and SQL, designed and trained a model in order to forecast the extent of the problem for each major city, creating novel techniques to ensure model accuracy despite the lack of history of the problem to generalize from, and preemptively uncovered a hit to P&L on the order of >$50 million / year. Worked directly with FinOps teams in Latin America to implement a solution based on those forecasts. Separately, used Spark to do large scale forecasting of individual Uber driver and rider behavior.
- Software Engineering InternThe D E Shaw GroupJun 2016 - Aug 2016 (3 months)Investigated the effects of an exchange’s order matching algorithms on fill behavior for a futures trading tactic, and discovered several properties of these algorithms that can be exploited to increase fill rate. Programmed an interactive simulator in Python of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s order books for futures markets, using actual stock market data. Ran experiments using this simulator to gather insights about consequences of different matching algorithms. Results and insights from this research are being incorporated in D. E. Shaw’s trading algorithms.
- Software Engineering InternFacebookJun 2015 - Sep 2015 (4 months)Built features into Facebook Mentions (an iOS app to allow public figures to connect with their fans) including implementing a way for celebrities to easily filter their mentions on Facebook and extensively redesigning the login flow of the application. Worked across the stack, both on Facebook’s iOS codebase using Objective-C and on Facebook’s backend using PHP.
- Software Engineering ContractorDato IncJan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)Trained a deep neural network on food images, hosted the image identifier solution on AWS, and developed an iOS application that enabled a user to capture images of food items and see their nutritional information. Built an interactive ROC curve visualization into GraphLab Create.
- Software Engineering InternDato IncJun 2014 - Sep 2014 (4 months)Built visualization features, including heat maps, bar graphs, and map views, into GraphLab Create™, a platform used by companies like Zillow and Exxon to analyze their data, using React and D3 libraries to enable rich visualizations of big data comprising billions of points.
- TFounder & CEOTangled FireAug 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 6 months)Founded Tangled Fire.
Created, released, and marketed the company's first IOS game - Bounding Blob.
Expanded Tangled Fire to Android by creating and publishing the company's first Android game - Bandit Bolt
Education
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- Bachelor of Arts (B.A, Computer ScienceUniversity of WashingtonJan 2014 - Jan 2017 (3 years 1 month)
- High School Diploma, Computer Science, Honors Math, Honors ScienceLakeside SchoolJan 2008 - Jan 2014 (6 years 1 month)
- Computer ScienceColumbia University
Projects (professional or personal)
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- PPaerJan 2015 - Current (11 years 10 months)Prototyped in 30 hours at Hack Generation Y, Paer allows users to instantly save contacts and connect with each other across their social networks - just by touching phones. Our goal was to provide an instantaneous and hassle-free way to turn face-to-face interactions into meaningful online connections. Project is still under development.
- BBorrow From FriendsMay 2014 - Current (12 years 6 months)Developed an iOS app that integrates with Facebook to facilitate the safe return of borrowed items.
Awards
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- IDubhacks Mojio AwardIssued by MojioDesigned an app over 24 hours that used Mojio (a car analytics device) to adjust a user's music playback to the car's speed, using the pace of the music to encourage him or her to either speed up or slow down based on the car's speed relative to the speed limit in the area.
- ITree Hacks: Top 8 Hack, Best App That Would Benefit From a Gigabit Network, Best Use of DirecTV's APIIssued by Tree HacksDesigned an app over 24 hours with in a group of three at Tree Hacks, Stanford's inaugural hackathon. that used PubNub and DirecTV's api to allow users to sync the shows their watching with what their friends are watching and chat via a robust and sleek interface using the user's television screen, recreating the living room television experience online. Not only named one of the top 8 hacks at Tree Hacks but also given Orange's award for Best App That Would Benefit From a Gigabit Network and DirecTV's award for Best Use of DirecTV's API.