About
Nishant Hooda previously worked as an engineer at Stripe and Brex. He is now building software testing tools.
Founder at DocketYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Nishant went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Docket's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Nishant can intro founders to Docket's investors below.
Docket's investors · 1
Co-founders at Docket
BS
Boris SkurikhinFounder
AR
Arjun Rajasekharan PillaiExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
AT
Anoop Thomas MathewExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Experience
- Docket (YC X25)Founder, CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- StripeSoftware Engineer2024 — 2025New York, New York, United States
- BrexSenior Software Engineer2021 — 2024New York, New York, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Engineering Intern2021Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- ShopifySoftware Engineering Intern2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- GitHubSoftware Engineering Intern2020San Francisco Bay Area
- ShopifySoftware Engineering Intern2019Waterloo, Ontario
- TribalScaleSoftware Engineering Intern2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Bump Inc.Software Developer2019Toronto, Canada Area
- XE.comiOS Developer Intern2018Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Skills & more
Swift9C++11C6Microsoft Excel5Microsoft PowerPoint5JavaScript1Node.js1Research5Leadership10Public Speaking6
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nishant Hooda?
- Nishant Hooda previously worked as an engineer at Stripe and Brex. He is now building software testing tools.
- Where does Nishant Hooda work?
- Nishant Hooda is Founder of Docket.
- What companies did Nishant Hooda found?
- Nishant Hooda founded Docket.
- Where did Nishant Hooda go to school?
- Nishant Hooda studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Computer Science); International Baccalaureate (Turner Fenton Seconday School, IB Diploma); Lund University (Engineering).
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Same school
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Shared employers
Also worked at Docket (YC X25)1
Also worked at Stripe186
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