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Nikhil Jha

Nikhil Jha

Software Engineer at Cisco · Entrepreneur · Ex-Razorpay

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Joined February 2026
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Summary

Practical software engineer with experience across large technology companies and startups — Nikhil has held multiple software-engineering roles at Cisco (progressing from Software Engineer - 2 to Software Engineer - 3), Razorpay, Alore - Growth OS, and an internship at Aspiring Minds, indicating hands-on product and engineering experience across different company stages. rocketreach+2
Entrepreneur and founder — listed as founder of a stealth startup (2021–2022) and as founder of HostelMunch, showing experience founding and leading early-stage ventures in addition to engineering roles. rocketreach+1
Research-minded open-source contributor — authored the Topics API simulator project to support academic work and is a named author on a PoPETS 2023 paper about Topics API re-identification risks, demonstrating engagement with measurement and privacy research and with reproducible tooling. github+1
Active coder and problem solver — maintains a public LeetCode profile, indicating ongoing practice of algorithmic problem solving and participation in programming community platforms. leetcode

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Writing

On the Robustness of Topics API to a Re-Identification Attack

January 1, 2023

Research paper analyzing the robustness of Google's Topics API to re-identification attacks; referenced as published in PoPETS 2023(4) and extended in a later submission.

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Hobbies

Practices algorithmic problem solving on LeetCode. leetcode