Nikhil Nathwani
Projects
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Moving Calculations from Frontend to Backend
📖 6 min read • How I replaced ~30 lines of JavaScript ranking logic with a single SQL RANK() window function.
From Personal Tool to Public App: Session Management
📖 7 min read • How I used secure session storage to scale my Todoist integration from prototype to production.
About Me
Boston, MA Microsoft: 8 yrs Cornell: CS & Math
Hi, I'm Nikhil. I'm a software engineer with a Cornell CS degree and 8 years of product leadership at Microsoft.
At Microsoft, I worked on the Office.com home page (100M MAU), collaborating closely with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver iterative improvements. This gave me a strong understanding of how large-scale software systems are built and shipped in cross-functional teams.
Over time, I gravitated back toward hands-on engineering and began building the games, data visualizations, and automations you see above. Evolving these personal projects into live, user-facing web apps taught me what it takes to write maintainable, production-ready code. I'm excited to bring this experience into my next role.
Hire Me
I'm actively looking for software engineering roles focused on full-stack web development.
The projects above demonstrate my ability to build and ship production web applications across a broad tech stack ().
If you think I'd be a good fit, I'd love to connect.
Also open to freelance and contract work.