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# Nikhil reddy Chillakuru on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

claudecode

ChatGPT

## 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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