Nikhil Aitharaju

Nikhil Aitharaju has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Nikhil is currently working as the Vice President of Product Engineering at CafeMedia since September 2021. Prior to that, Nikhil was a Co-Founder at Topic from February 2019 to October 2021. Nikhil co-founded TINT (tintup.com) in 2012 and served as the Chief Technology Officer until August 2018 when it was acquired by Filestack. During their tenure at TINT, Nikhil was responsible for building an enterprise-level User Generated Content platform and successfully led the complete rewrite of the API platform from PHP to Rails. Nikhil also played a crucial role in scaling the services and database to handle high volumes of page views and data. Additionally, they gained experience as a Software Developer Intern at NetApp in 2011 and as a Web Developer at the Keck School of Medicine, USC from December 2010 to May 2011.

Nikhil Aitharaju holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Osmania University, which they obtained from 2006 to 2010. Nikhil further pursued their education at the University of Southern California, where they completed their Master's degree in Computer Science from 2010 to 2012.