Nikhil Patil
Product-minded engineer who runs cafés and builds the systems that run them.
Summary
Product-minded engineer in Bengaluru with about ten years of frontend and full-stack work, most recently at Publicis Sapient on insurance and payments front ends for a UK client. Outside work I run a chai café chain and a corporate café business, and I build the software they run on. Since late 2025 most of my own work has been AI products and autonomous systems that touch real money, so the engineering is about guardrails as much as models. I work with Claude Code as my primary development environment and write everything down: CLAUDE.md, status files, decision records.
Experience
Publicis Sapient
Bengaluru- Senior Angular developer on the team for The AA, a UK motoring and insurance company.
- Maintain the front ends for the home, car and breakdown insurance products.
- Helped launch a spread-payment platform under a tight deadline: email templates, CMS changes and component styling.
- Built part of the mobile mechanics journey, where a customer books a mobile garage nearby.
- Proposed product improvements from the user journeys. A cross-sell on the route planner shipped.
Angular · TypeScript · SCSS
- Moved from startups to a large consultancy. Client: IBM, on the Sterling Order Management call centre product.
Angular · Java
Openapp
BengaluruOpen Appliances designs and sells smart locks and, later, the Tusk smart home range.
- Ran Tusk Smart with a team of four engineers, a smart home app on Android and iOS that onboards devices from several brands.
- Ran the Tusk micro-franchise programme with development, sales, operations and marketing, growing a network of franchise owners across India within six months.
- Kept building alongside: customer dashboards, a GPS dashboard, operations consoles, an e-commerce site and the company websites.
Angular · SCSS · Tailwind · Notion · Miro
- Rebuilt the company website in Angular 9 and built the Tusk subscription site in Angular 8.
- Built the operations console for payment reminders, invoices and installation scheduling.
- Unlocked the company's Bluetooth padlocks from a browser with Web Bluetooth over their encrypted channel.
- Wrote a WhatsApp bot on the WhatsApp API through Twilio, in Node.
Angular · Bootstrap 4 · SCSS · Node · Web Bluetooth
Engagedly
BengaluruPerformance management software: reviews, 360 feedback, goals.
- Built framework-independent web components with Stencil, including an in-house charting library on D3.
- Introduced BEM across the codebase and wrote the style guide so the UI stayed consistent.
- Designed and built a goal hierarchy chart in D3, and implemented the new performance and home dashboards from Sketch files.
- Was the go-to for anything frontend and for web standards.
JavaScript · CoffeeScript · Backbone.js · Stencil · D3.js · HAML · SCSS
Persistent Systems
Goa- Risk-based continuous patch management: an automated system that deploys and manages patches on registered endpoints through IBM BigFix.
Ember.js · Ruby on Rails
- Built Ember components in a distributed cognitive automation system that installed middleware on any endpoint on demand, with a team spread across countries and a client in Singapore.
- Wrote the end-to-end Cucumber test automation for the Ember app, and Chef recipes that reset system state after every run.
Ember.js · Cucumber · Chef · Git
WorkIndia
Mumbai- Back-end features, UI fixes and bug fixes on a Django job-matching site.
Python · Django
Advanced Byte Technologies
Belagavi- A small web studio. Found the clients, scoped the work, designed and built their sites end to end.
Laravel · Bootstrap · JavaScript
Shreshta IT Technologies
Belagavi- Linux: Nagios monitoring with the NRPE plugin, a Squid proxy for content filtering and caching, firewall rules.
Ventures
Founder and operator. A chai café chain with four outlets across Bengaluru and Belgaum, built around jaggery chai. Every sip and bite made with the goodness of jaggery. thejaggerypoint.com
Founder. Corporate café partnerships. The café your workplace runs on. appetiteavenue.com
Selected projects
All live at real URLs. The full list, with stack and status, is at nikhilpatil.in/work.
- IgniteAI 2025 to present
One product photo in, one finished UGC video ad out. igniteai.in - Alphie 2026 to present
An AI-traded sleeve inside deterministic rails, on NSE stocks. trades.nikhilpatil.in - DhanChakra 2026 to present
An affiliate income loop that scouts, creates, publishes, measures and heals itself. shop.nikhilpatil.in - Baristalk 2026
Scan a table QR, speak your order in any language, it lands on the counter priced and paid. baristalk.com - PanelPrep 2026
A live mock interview with two AI panelists who have two real voices and interrupt each other. panel-prep.web.app - Hoist 2026
A JavaScript and TypeScript learning PWA built for recall under pressure, not just comprehension. hoist-learn.netlify.app - Oasis POS 2026 to present
The offline-first Android point of sale my café chain runs on every day. Menu board
Hackathons
- DhanChakra, Build with Gemini XPRIZE. 2026 Aug
- PanelPrep, NamasteDev hackathon. 2026 Jul
- IgniteAds, Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon. 2026 Jun
- IgniteAI, Gemini 3 Hackathon, AI For Good. 2026 Feb
- OverSight, a hackathon on fast-fashion decisions. 2026
- GenAI Avatar Interviewer, Speed hackathon. 2024 May