Nikhil Jha

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