Nikhil Shikarkhane

Nikhil Shikarkhane has over 12 years of work experience. Nikhil began their career in 2008 as a DBA at Dotblu Inc, where they were responsible for DBA activities, system administrator tasks, handling C#. NET enhancements, bug fixes and SQL performance tuning. In 2010, they moved to NetEnt as a Database Architect. From 2012 to 2016, they worked at ComeOn! as a DBA and Business Intelligence Lead, where they were immersed in machine learning and created clusters and prediction models. In 2016, they became a Co-Founder at both Tinktime and Yayloh. Nikhil also took on a role as a Data Engineer at Spotify, where they worked with user acquisition forecasting and projection. In 2017, they took on a Parental Leave role and completed a Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng. In 2019, they became an Entrepreneur at Antler.

Nikhil Shikarkhane obtained a BE in Computer Science and Technology from Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology between 1999 and 2003. Prior to that, they attended Kendriya Vidyalaya and obtained a High School degree in Science. Nikhil has also obtained various certifications from Coursera, including Deep Learning Specialization, Sequence Models, Convolutional Neural Networks, Structuring Machine Learning Projects, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, and Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Additionally, they hold a Microsoft certified database administrator certification from Microsoft.