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Hello, I'm <strong>Nikhil</strong>!<br />
You'll find me at the intersection of product, design, and engineering.
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Update: I will be joining <a href="https://sprig.com" target="_blank">Sprig</a> as their second PM. Stay tuned for more!
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<span class="para-begin-emoji">🎬</span><strong class="bolder">Most recently,</strong> I led i18n for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what+to+watch" class="callout-link" target="_blank">TV & movie recommendations</a> on Search, expanding the product to 70+ new countries.
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<span class="para-begin-emoji">📱</span><strong class="bolder">Before that,</strong> I worked on the Pixel/Android team, where I launched the Pixel 4a (the best-selling Pixel phone) and <a class="callout-link" href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/digital-wellbeing/improve-your-sleep/" target="_blank">Bedtime</a> in Google's Clock app.
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<span class="para-begin-emoji">🏹</span><strong class="bolder">Many moons ago,</strong> I did product/engineering/design at <a class="callout-link" href="https://archerimpact.com" target="_blank">Archer</a>, a social impact venture (product startup + nonprofit incubator) that built tech for investigative journalism, human rights, and illicit finance. I built and launched SanctionsExplorer, which was <a href="assets/img/Treasury_Challenge_Coin.JPG" class="callout-link" target="_blank">recognized</a> by the U.S. Treasury.
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<li><a href="assets/dl/Resume_Nikhil_Patel.pdf" class="button" target="_blank">View résumé</a></li>
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<h2>Experience</h2>
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<h4 class="experience-title">APM @ Google (Search)</h4>
<p class="experience-date">Aug 2020 - present</p>
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I led internationalization for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what+to+watch" target="_blank">What to Watch</a> (TV show/movie recommendations on Search). I launched the product to 70+ new locales (X mil DAU) and improved the featureset of an additional 100 locales. As part of the effort to improve the product in other countries, I led a program piloting a faster way to onboard i18n streaming services, reducing onboarding time from 6-12 months to weeks using web crawling.
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I also led metrics for the product, developing & driving a new metrics strategy. I introduced new methodologies like cohort analysis to guide our experimentation and make more data-driven launch decision.
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<h4 class="experience-title"><a href="https://careers.google.com/programs/apm/" target="_blank">APM</a> @ Google (Android / Pixel)</h4>
<p class="experience-date">Aug 2019 - 2020</p>
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<strong class="bolder">Pixel 4a:</strong>
As the software PM for the Pixel 4a, I was responsible for the holistic software experience and collaborated with... well, everyone. I was involved in everything from the product marketing narrative, to software deadlines, to keeping regional teams in the loop, to crafting PR comms and customer support responses.
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I represented the device <strong>internally and externally</strong> — briefing 40 journalists from top publications (WIRED, Forbes, The Guardian), presenting at Pixel-wide All-Hands, and presenting weekly updates to Pixel VPs and other senior leaders.
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<strong class="bolder">Pixel Essential Apps:</strong>
I defined a product vision for the Bedtime experience in the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.deskclock&hl=en_US" target="_blank">
Google Clock app</a>, driving the project from concept to a successful <a class="callout-link" href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/digital-wellbeing/improve-your-sleep/" target="_blank">launch</a> (Bedtime now sees X mil DAU). It was a complex effort that required forging relationships with multiple internal teams and external partners (e.g. Calm, Spotify), developing and displaying results from an ML model that can detect time spent in bed, and crafting a pixel-perfect UI for our millions of users.
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<h4 class="experience-title">Head of Product & Design @ <a target="_blank" href="https://archerimpact.com">Archer</a></h4>
<p class="experience-date">May - Sept 2018</p>
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Our mission at Archer was to make public data accessible. We created <a target="_blank" class="callout-link" href="https://archerimpact.com">Archer Public</a>, a platform to visualize how companies and people are connected across borders, datasets, and documents — and make these insights verifiable and actionable to everyday citizens.
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My role was spanned full-stack engineering, design, product strategy, and more. I built the data API and parts of the React frontend, as well as architected the underlying knowledge graph. Additionally, I worked on all of the design, including the platform's branding and UI/UX.
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I also created mocks as part of a contract with <a href="https://www.eyewitness.global/" target="_blank">eyeWitness</a>. The mocks were for a database for storing and verifying evidence of war crimes to submit to the UN, International Criminal Court, and domestic courts. I <a href="https://twitter.com/eyewitnessorg/status/1025357030670983168" target="_blank">sat down with</a> their analysts and lawyers to understand their workflow and design an interface that best suited their needs.
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<h4 class="experience-title">Project Lead @ <a target="_blank" href="https://archerimpact.com/labs">Archer Labs</a></h4>
<p class="experience-date">Aug 2017 - May 2018</p>
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I built <a target="_blank" href="https://sanctionsexplorer.org">SanctionsExplorer</a>, the most modern (and most loved by the community!) publicly-available platform for searching and understanding U.S. Treasury sanctions. (Note: C4ADS has since acquired the project; it used to look like <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vVhblI6rOTA3Eyab_XMNegAAt2ATYwn1/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">this</a>.)
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I conducted user interviews, designed the platform's interface, and built the frontend and backend (Python, NodeJS, ElasticSearch) [<a href="https://github.com/archerimpact/SanctionsExplorer" target="_blank">GitHub</a>]. I worked with two other Berkeley students on the cloud deployment and XML data parser.
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We <a class="callout-link" href="https://medium.com/archerimpact/sanctionsexplorer-democratizing-access-to-ofac-sanctions-data-d448bad5ce37" target="_blank">launched</a> in April 2018 to an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from the international community, including multiple government agencies (including a certain Bureau...), journalists & media organizations, academic researchers, NGOs, and private banks & companies around the world. The Treasury <a href="assets/img/Treasury_Challenge_Coin.JPG" class="callout-link" target="_blank">recognized our work</a>, and now I'm the proud owner of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coin" target="_blank" >Challenge coin</a>!
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As an intern, I developed a plug-and-play NodeJS module that could be integrated into many of Tanium's products. This module allowed developers to specify a set of metrics, which would them be collected and intelligently displayed for customers.
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<h2>Hacking</h2>
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Here's a few of my recent personal projects (2020 only).
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<a href="https://getpangram.com" target="_blank" class="image fit thumb"><img src="assets/img/pangram.png" alt="Pangram: The save-for-later app that actually helps you read-it-later" /></a>
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<a href="https://tiny.cc/orangechrome" target="_blank" class="image fit thumb"><img src="assets/img/orange.png" alt="Orange: A Chrome extension to see stats about fatal police shootings" /></a>
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<a href="https://2020recap.wtf" target="_blank" class="image fit thumb"><img src="assets/img/2020recap.png" alt="Reminisce about 2020" /></a>
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