Nikhil Rajesh Shirke

Technical Project Manager & AI Innovator.

12+ years bridging IT infrastructure and intelligent software delivery.

From telecom scale to computer vision applications.

Selected Work

Kinetix (AI Digital Personal Trainer)

Developed an autonomous computer vision application for real-time tracking of barbell squats and precise gym form analysis.

FlutterOpenCVMediaPipeYOLOv8PythonFastAPIWebSocketsSupabase

SHEye (AI Women's Safety System)

Built a real-time CCTV analysis platform using YOLOv8 and FastAPI to detect harassment and public safety incidents. Designed a modular PoC for metro stations with instant WhatsApp/SMS alerting backends using N8n.

YOLOv8FastAPIN8nPythonWebSockets

OrbiVault (AI-Driven SSL/TLS Certificate Manager)

Developed an intelligent security platform to automate the lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates, preventing service outages due to expired credentials.

PythonAutomationSecurityDevOps

Automated AI Email Agent

Engineered a comprehensive email management agent utilizing n8n workflows integrated with OpenAI, IMAP, and Gmail.

n8nOpenAIIMAPGmail APIWorkflow Automation

Tools & Technologies

AI & Machine Learning

LLMsLangChainNLPText ProcessingYOLOComputer VisionPredictive Modeling

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)CI/CDGitTerraformDockerKubernetes

Languages & Frameworks

PythonSQLJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSS

Project Management

Agile/ScrumJiraRisk ManagementStakeholder CommunicationResource PlanningTelecom Infrastructure

Career Journey

Sabbatical & Freelance

2024

Independent Engineer

Dedicated time to family support while engineering independent AI applications and full-stack software projects.

Rocket Software

May 2022 – Apr 2024

Software Developer In Test - III

Spearheaded the transition from manual to Python-based automation, successfully reducing testing cycle time from 72 hours to 24 hours (66% efficiency gain).

Vodafone Idea Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2020 – May 2022

Assistant General Manager

Directed nationwide server rollouts across 23 circles in India, achieving 100% compliance and zero service downtime of 1,700+ core Linux nodes. Led a team of 22 engineers.

Sterlite Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2020

Sr. System Engineer

Reduced incident response time by 40% through strategic Linux performance tuning and automated alerting.

IBM India

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017

Software Administrator

Orchestrated the centralization of mediation systems across 23 telecom circles.

Nokia Solution Networks

Jun 2014 – Oct 2015

Network Engineer

Managed IT/Application Service Desk operations and handled customer inquiries using CRM tools.

Achievements & Awards

Excellence in AI Innovation

2023

Tech Leadership Summit

Awarded for pioneering the implementation of computer vision models in legacy infrastructure.

Top Project Delivery Award

2021

Global Telecom Solutions

Recognized for delivering a multi-million dollar digital transformation project 3 months ahead of schedule.

Outstanding Contribution to Open Source

2020

AI Developer Community

Acknowledged for significant contributions to NLP and text processing libraries.