Technikhil Space
Nikhil Krishna Nair
Senior Software Engineer · Berlin, Germany
I build and run the software systems behind businesses, and have done for 25 years: supply chain, logistics, financial services and public health. Off the clock I'm a dad, a podcaster and a tender coconut aficionado. I love learning about, talking about and working with distributed and decentralized systems, technologies that, I believe, increase individual freedom. I hail from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India and am currently based in Berlin.
Currently
Backend Engineer — SCM, HelloFresh. AWS infrastructure for the Infios (Körber) warehouse management system: Windows and SQL Server environments, deployments and database reliability for 24/7 warehouse operations across multiple geographies. The details are in my resume.
Earlier
- Staff Engineer, cargo.one (2020–2024). Air-freight marketplace running production services on GCP/GKE; developed and deployed services there, working directly with Kubernetes.
- Solutions Architect to Blockchain Consultant, UST Global (2014–2020). Designed and built a Python prototype delivering FX trading axes through Symphony; after approval, provided the architecture and onsite coordination for an offshore Java implementation.
- Before that: architect, consultant and developer roles from 1999, listed in the full resume.
Talks & teaching
- Software Engineering Radio (former host): All episodes
- Blockchain Dialogues (co-host): bcdialogues.com
- Workshops and talks: Kubernetes workshop · Blockchain workshop · TensorFlow talk
Open source
- Annot (Open source · 2026). Extended the open-source human-in-the-loop review tool for AI workflows to Windows through five merged contributions covering compatibility, CI, documentation, cleanup and a UI fix.
- url_pinger (Go · 2024). Periodic URL monitoring that records response status, errors, response time and regex-match results to a datastore.
- simple_celery_runner (Python). An experiment with Celery, Flower and Redis, using the mnemonic library to generate BIP 32 seed phrases.