Nikhil Nathwani

Email: nnathwani36@gmail.com

Portfolio: nikhilnathwani.com

Location: Chelmsford, MA 01824

Skills
  • Frontend:  React, Next.js, Astro, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Framer Motion, Figma
  • Backend:  Firebase, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0
  • Tooling:  Git, Vercel, Python scripting, AI tooling (Copilot, Claude), web scraping (Selenium, BeautifulSoup)
Projects

Slidemoji (slidemoji.com)

  • (2025-26) Daily puzzle game built with React, TypeScript, and Firebase. 1,000+ puzzles pre-generated via custom scripts.
  • Routed real-time Firestore data through React Context: difficulty state, live trophy tracking, and per-user settings (dark mode, sound) propagate automatically to UI components.
  • Built progressive user tiers: guest users play instantly with Firebase Anonymous Auth, Google-authenticated users sync progress across devices through Firestore, and premium users unlock the full puzzle archive via Stripe.

Todoist NBA Schedule Importer (nba-todoist.vercel.app)

  • (2024-25) Full-stack web app integrating Todoist API to import NBA schedules as tasks in a user's account.
  • Implemented OAuth 2.0 with secure credential storage and encrypted session management. Server-rendered UI adapts to account state (e.g. free vs. premium tier, time zone) to prevent error states.

Titan Tracker (triple-threat.vercel.app)

  • (2024-25) Stat tracker for Food Network's Bobby's Triple Threat, built with Next.js, React, and PostgreSQL.
  • Improved page load performance by ~90% (2s → 200ms) by migrating from client-side rendering (CSR) to static site generation (SSG), eliminating cold-start latency, 6 sequential script loads, and 5 runtime API calls.
Work Experience

Microsoft

Senior Product Manager (2019-22)
Redmond, WA
  • Led Office.com home page (100M MAU). Shipped product enhancements across platforms, including ML-powered recommended documents, achieving 2% lift in document opens and 0.5% lift in week-over-week retention.
  • Proposed and delivered major Office.com redesign with sidebar navigation model, enabling extensibility and cross-app integrations. Expanded to Outlook and SharePoint, aligning teams to unified UX while maintaining stable metrics.
  • Evolved processes from multi-year release cycles to realtime iteration as Experimentation Champ for Microsoft Office. Grew A/B experimentation adoption from 3 experiments in 2018 to 96 in 2019, with clear success/guardrail metrics.
Product Manager (2014-19)
Cambridge, MA
  • Wrote product specifications for collaboration features in Microsoft Office. Led Agile execution with engineers & designers, standardizing Azure DevOps workflows and driving React Native migration to support rapid iteration.
  • Implemented Kusto queries (SQL-like) and Power BI dashboards to analyze product telemetry and inform org-wide decisions. Taught these skills to 250+ engineers and PMs via trainings I led at the Office Data Conference.
Education

Cornell University

B.A. Computer Science, Mathematics (GPA: 3.8) (2014)

Ithaca, NY
  • Select coursework: Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming in Java, Machine Learning, AI, Operating Systems
  • Teaching Assistant: Object-Oriented Programming in Java (2x), Discrete Mathematics (2x)