About

Nikhil Gupta is a highly skilled Ruby on Rails developer and growth hacker with over 13 years of relevant experience. He is a full-stack developer who has an innate desire to automate everything he can. Nikhil is proficient in Vim, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, JavaScript, API integrations, social applications, jQuery, Git, AngularJS, ReactJS, web scraping using Scrapy (Python) framework, HTML5, CSS3, and more. He writes readable, robust, and heavily-commented code with modularity in mind, and he prefers to do test-driven development. Nikhil is currently the founder and RoR developer at Wicked Developers, where he has been leading a team of 8 engineers on various client projects for 2.5 years. He has been responsible for site architecture, test plans, and software development of various components. Nikhil has also collaborated with clients regarding project specifications, testing, and timely updates of the progress. He has integrated complex APIs together with client products, including several Google APIs, social network APIs, and services like Basecamp, Asana, Airbrake, etc. Before founding Wicked Developers, Nikhil was the co-founder of 5minutes.to, where he was responsible for test-driven development of Ruby gems and Rails-based web applications while following agile techniques via PivotalTracker, code reviews, and collaboration using Github, Hipchat for communication, and other industry-standard techniques. The startup stack that he actively worked on consisted of RubyOnRails, jQuery, AngularJS/ReactJS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, and Redis. He also used RSpec, Capybara, Cucumber, Poltegeist (PhantomJS), and FactoryGirl for testing and Capistrano, AWS, EC2, and Heroku for server deployment and staging environments. Nikhil holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Information Technology from Global Open University, where he studied from 2006 to 2009. He is proficient in Ruby, test, AWS, web, Redis, Javascript, and software engineering. Nikhil is a highly motivated individual who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow his skillset.