About
Alok Nikhil is a cloud infrastructure engineer with experience in serverless systems, networking, and performance optimization. He was a technical author of Aurora Serverless at AWS, worked on networking infrastructure at Cisco, and contributed to scaling Confluent Cloud's throughput and reducing Kafka latencies.
Founder at OmnistrateYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Alok went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Omnistrate's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Alok can intro founders to Omnistrate's investors below.
Omnistrate's investors · 4
Co-founders at Omnistrate
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Kamal GuptaFounder
Experience
- OmnistrateFounder / CTOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- ConfluentStaff Software Engineer2020 — 2023Mountain View, California, United States
- CiscoSenior Software Engineer2018 — 2020San Jose, CA
- Amazon Web ServicesLead Software Engineer2017 — 2018Greater Seattle Area
- Amazon Web ServicesAurora (RDS) Software Development Engineer2015 — 2017Greater Seattle Area
- AmpArmorEntrepreneur2013 — 2014Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Bharat Heavy Electricals LimitedIntern2013Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Skills & more
C++CJava19Algorithms8Software Development5Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)Process Automation3Agile MethodologiesDistributed Systems1Databases2GitLinux Kernel1
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Go (Programming Language)JSONC (Programming Language)Languages English · Kannada · Telugu
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Alok Nikhil?
- Alok Nikhil is a cloud infrastructure engineer with experience in serverless systems, networking, and performance optimization. He was a technical author of Aurora Serverless at AWS, worked on networking infrastructure at Cisco, and contributed to scaling Confluent Cloud's throughput and reducing Kafka latencies.
- Where does Alok Nikhil work?
- Alok Nikhil is Founder of Omnistrate.
- What companies did Alok Nikhil found?
- Alok Nikhil founded Omnistrate.
- Where did Alok Nikhil go to school?
- Alok Nikhil studied at University of Florida (Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering); M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Instrumentation Technology); St.Joseph's Boys' High School (Mathematics and Computer Science).
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Confluent mafia10
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Shared employers
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Also worked at Confluent32
Mike VolpiInvestor at Index VenturesSangeen ZebInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Javier RedondoPartner at Scale Venture PartnersSahir AzamInvestor at Index VenturesShravan NarayenInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Erica Ruliffson SchultzPresident, Field Operations (former), Confluent at Operator Collective
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