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Shikhar Khandelwal

Founder

CTO at Brushless

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedBrushless

About

Shikhar Khandelwal was the founding engineer on Goldman Sachs' low-latency graph trade database team, which he helped grow to support more than $20 billion in daily notional volume. He is a first-class honours graduate of the University of Hong Kong, where he held a full four-year scholarship and earned Dean's List recognition.

CTO at Brushless

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Brushless's investors · 2

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksTranspose Platform ManagementHouston

Co-founders at Brushless

ATAbhi Tanwar
Abhi TanwarCEO

Experience

  1. BrushlessCo-Founder & Presidentcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Entrepreneurs FirstEntrepreneur in Residence2025
  3. Goldman SachsAssociate2023 — 2025Hong Kong SAR
  4. Goldman SachsAnalyst2020 — 2023Hong Kong SAR
  5. Cyberport Hong KongCyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP)2019 — 2020Hong Kong SAR
  6. HKSTP Incubation ProgrammesScience and Technology Entrepreneurship Programme2019 — 2020Hong Kong SAR
  7. Goldman SachsTechnology Summer Analyst2019Hong Kong
  8. Gravitons, IncApplication Developer2019Hong Kong
  9. Fundroots Software Creative LimitedAndroid Developer2018Hong Kong SAR
  10. Hewlett Packard EnterpriseAndroid Developer2017Delhi, India

Education

  1. The University of Hong Kong2016 — 2020
  2. University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive EducationVisiting Student, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies2019

Skills & more

Android Development7Core Java6Microsoft Office5Python4Django2C++1libGDX for Game Development1
  • Core Java — Cambridge Certification Authority
  • Core Java with Android — Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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