Mihir Nikam

“If you are not working on production issues, you are creating them.”

a wise man once said

Software Engineer at Nextpower LLC — state volleyball, an unfinished dream about flying, occasional guitarist/pianist.

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GoAzureOpenTelemetry
2024–Present

Infrastructure for the Energy Transition

Building systems that keep solar farms running when the weather doesn't cooperate.

Started as an intern building CI pipelines and hardening security. Stayed as a full-time engineer architecting the systems that keep utility-scale solar plants online — including a failover controller that prevents outages during storms, and an API optimization that cut response times by 65%.

Nextpower LLC (formerly NEXTracker) · Software Engineer
MERN StackStartupsLeadership
2020–2023

Building a Company from a Dorm Room

Co-founded a digital agency. Somehow it worked.

Co-founded and led the technical side of Growth Heads Digital — a web development and digital marketing agency that grew to six-figure revenue, 25+ clients, and a team of 30 interns. Covered in Business Standard, The Print, and ANI. Learned more from this than from most of my formal education.

Growth Heads Digital · Co-Founder & CTO

Right Now

Working onSoftware Engineer at Nextpower LLC — building infrastructure for utility-scale solar energy in Fremont, CA
BuildingAtlas of Me (dear-life)
LearningMusic production
ReadingYou Can Heal Your Life — Louise Hay
ListeningBill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby
PlayingGravity (John Mayer) — still not quite there on the bends

Last updated: April 2025