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Nikhil reddy Chillakuru

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru

9+ years of work experience

Stronghold Investment Management
Jan 20268 mosPresent

Stronghold Investment Management
Feb 202511 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

VEGROW
Jul 20248 mosFeb 2025

VEGROW
Apr 20222 yrs 3 mosJun 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developing cutting-edge, intelligent technologies that deliver actionable insights, empowering India's fastest-growing Agritech sector to thrive. Managed a team 7 members. Leading the development of Velens, India's first product to leverage machine learning technology for accurately assessing the quality and size-mix of yield from farm harvests, revolutionizing agritech insights. Headed Quality Report feature which provides quality and size-mix for perishable inventory of fruits. Major responsibilities included Delivery, Quality and architecture of the above products.
VEGROW
Sep 20201 yr 7 mosMar 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building tech to manage all the operations.
Intello Labs
Jul 20173 yrs 2 mosAug 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed a backend system to track user activity on a web portal for personalized recommendations. Implemented web spiders to crawl e-commerce sites for product data, enabling brand monitoring and actionable insights. Developed an AI-based vegetable grading system using Mask RCNN and image processing to grade produce (e.g., tomatoes, onions, potato) per industry standards. Achieved 85-90% accuracy, reducing manual effort and increasing adoption. Used by Amazon, Rajasthan Govt, etc.. Optimized deep learning models through hyperparameter tuning using Grid and Bayesian Search. Leveraged Amazon SageMaker for the same.
Intello Labs
Jan 20176 mosJun 2017

Bengaluru

-Data monitoring across various ecommerce portals: Using web spiders crawled websites to capture data of products for brand monitoring and giving insights on the same. Worked independently creating web crawlers and REST.

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Education

Dhirubhai Ambani University

Bachelor’s Degree, Information and Communication Technology

Dhirubhai Ambani University

20134 yrs2017
narayana junior college

Intermediate, MPC

narayana junior college

20112 yrs2013

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Headline

Engineering Manager

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Lead Backend Engineer at Stronghold Investment Management, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos

Senior Backend Engineer at Stronghold Investment Management, Feb 2025 - Dec 2025 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at VEGROW, Jul 2024 - Feb 2025 · 8 mos

Team Lead at VEGROW, Apr 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developing cutting-edge, intelligent technologies that deliver actionable insights, empowering India's fastest-growing Agritech sector to thrive. Managed a team 7 members. Leading the development of Velens, India's first product to leverage machine learning technology for accurately assessing the quality and size-mix of yield from farm harvests, revolutionizing agritech insights. Headed Quality Report feature which provides quality and size-mix for perishable inventory of fruits. Major responsibilities included Delivery, Quality and architecture of the above products.

Senior Software Developer at VEGROW, Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building tech to manage all the operations.

Software Engineer at Intello Labs, Jul 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed a backend system to track user activity on a web portal for personalized recommendations. Implemented web spiders to crawl e-commerce sites for product data, enabling brand monitoring and actionable insights. Developed an AI-based vegetable grading system using Mask RCNN and image processing to grade produce (e.g., tomatoes, onions, potato) per industry standards. Achieved 85-90% accuracy, reducing manual effort and increasing adoption. Used by Amazon, Rajasthan Govt, etc.. Optimized deep learning models through hyperparameter tuning using Grid and Bayesian Search. Leveraged Amazon SageMaker for the same.

Software Developer Intern at Intello Labs, Jan 2017 - Jun 2017 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, -Data monitoring across various ecommerce portals: Using web spiders crawled websites to capture data of products for brand monitoring and giving insights on the same. Worked independently creating web crawlers and REST.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Information and Communication Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani University

Intermediate, MPC, narayana junior college

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