3x founder

Alok Nikhil

Founder / CTO at Omnistrate (YC W23)

Co-founder

Omnistrate· Winter 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @aloknnikhil

2026Co-founder· Nistro AI by Omnistrate (omnistrate.com)

Founder · since 2017

Company

Nistro AI by Omnistrate (omnistrate.com)

Role

Co-Founder

current

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Omnistrate

Transform any software to multi-cloud SaaS in minutes not years

Winter 2023

Experience

Career

Omnistrate
Founder
Founder / CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – Present
2023
Nistro AI by Omnistrate (omnistrate.com)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2026 – Present
2026
Confluent
Staff Software Engineer · Mountain View, California, United States · 2020 – 2023
2020
Cisco
Senior Software Engineer · San Jose, CA · 2018 – 2020
2018
Amazon Web Services
Founder
Lead Software Engineer · Greater Seattle Area · 2017 – 2018
2017
Amazon Web Services
Aurora (RDS) Software Development Engineer · Greater Seattle Area · 2015 – 2017
2015
AmpArmor
Entrepreneur · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2013 – 2014
2013
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Intern · Bengaluru Area, India · 2013
2013

Bio

Alok comes with deep technical expertise in Serverless, Networking, Performance on the Cloud. He was the original technical author of Aurora Serverless, which revolutionized the data systems space. Within the first year of its introduction, ~50% of hundreds of thousands of Aurora DBs created were on Aurora Serverless. He also scaled networking (packets-per-second) on AWS by 10-15x during his tenure at Cisco, scaled Confluent Cloud by 5x from 4GBps to 20GBps, and Kafka Cloud latencies by 10x.