Nikhil Dass

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ABOUT NIKHIL DASS

I am a Director-level engineering leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling technology platforms across the financial services, fintech, and telecom sectors. My career has been defined by a passion for driving product innovation, leading high-performing teams, and executing on complex digital and cloud transformation initiatives.I have a proven track record of growing a consulting portfolio from £0 to £5M, architecting cloud-native solutions that reduce client onboarding time from weeks to days, and pioneering the use of Generative AI to boost engineering productivity by up to 30%. I thrive on solving big challenges, whether it\'s managing multi-million-pound budgets for enterprise transformations or leading rapid product development cycles for agile organisations.Core Specialisms:Engineering Leadership & Strategy: Building and scaling engineering teams, strategic talent development, and technical governance.Product & Platform Engineering: Driving product-led growth, building customer-centric solutions, and modernising legacy systems.Cloud-Native & Scalable Architecture: Designing and deploying highly available, event-driven platforms on Google Cloud and Azure.AI & Innovation: Integrating Generative AI to enhance developer experience, automate processes, and unlock new business capabilities.Consulting & Delivery: Leading pre-sales, solution design, and large-scale program delivery with a focus on business outcomes.I am a technical leader who combines deep architectural expertise with a collaborative and disruptive mindset. I enjoy fostering a culture of experimentation and building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver exceptional results.Key Technology Experiences: GenAI & Agentic AI, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Istio, Java, Spring-Boot, Kafka, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, SQL, Oracle, Salesforce, Apache Airflow, Thought Machine Vault.