Nikhil Krishna Nair
Senior Software Engineer · Berlin, Germany
Hi, I'm Nikhil. I've spent 25 years building and running resilient software systems in supply chain, logistics, finance and public health. Distributed and decentralized systems are my favorite rabbit hole.
Originally from Thiruvananthapuram, now in Berlin. Dad, podcaster and tender coconut fan.
Currently
Backend Engineer — SCM, HelloFresh. Running AWS infra for the global warehouse management system (Infios/Körber): Windows and SQL Server, deployments and database reliability for 24/7 operations.
Earlier
- Staff Engineer, cargo.one (2020–2024). Built and deployed production services for an air-freight marketplace on GCP and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Solutions Architect to Blockchain Consultant, UST Global (2014–2020). Built a bare-metal Kubernetes platform that hosted three cohorts of interns, plus blockchain prototypes for financial-services clients.
- Before that: architect, consultant and developer roles from 1999, listed in the full resume.
Teaching & podcasting
- 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.