Mihir Nikam

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

Selected Work

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: a failover controller that prevents outages during storms, an API optimization that cut response times by 65%, and a knowledge system that maps how the product's moving parts actually fit together.

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

ReadingGreenlights by Matthew McConaughey

ListeningBill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby

PlayingGravity (John Mayer). Still not quite there on the bends.

Last updated: July 2025