{"id":2919,"date":"2025-10-01T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/?page_id=2919"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:55:57","slug":"nikhil-karkare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/nikhil-karkare\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikhil Karkare"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2919\" class=\"elementor elementor-2919\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a1b394 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9a1b394\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c685d4f e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c685d4f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99c5238 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"99c5238\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slideInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d2c7a6 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6d2c7a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc0b0e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cc0b0e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2604\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cfb277 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1cfb277\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae9dd6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ae9dd6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43a721e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"43a721e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Nikhil Karkare<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e889fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e889fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Director, Technology<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc74314 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc74314\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Nikhil is the backbone behind the Walnut Concept. He holds a B.E in Computer Science. He also has an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He handles technology and finance at Walnut. He is also active in the technology community in Pune.<\/p><p>He is a core team member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cspathshala.org\/\">CSPathshala<\/a>, a nation-wide community driven open source computational thinking curriculum for schools, which is being implemented at Walnut Schools too. CSPathshala is used by lacs of students across India, and has been translated to 5 major languages. CSPathshala is an <a href=\"https:\/\/india.acm.org\/\">ACM India<\/a> initiative, initially supported by Google.<\/p><p>Earlier, he was looking after technology and administration in Millennium National School for over a decade.<\/p><p>Nikhil was also involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csi-india.org\/\">Computer Society of India<\/a>, where he was also the Chairman of the Pune Chapter for 2014-15. He has guided various students for projects in Computer Science. He is also involved closely with the budding startup community in Pune, and was one of the core team members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punestartups.org\/\">POCC<\/a> . Prior to returning to India, Nikhil was employed with EMC Corporation, USA in their Advanced Research team, and StorageTek in various capacities.<\/p><p>Nikhil is a <a href=\"https:\/\/pune.tie.org\/charter-member\/\">Charter Member<\/a> of TiE Pune, where he is actively working with mentoring startups via the TiE Nurture program.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikhil Karkare Director, Technology Nikhil is the backbone behind the Walnut Concept. He holds a B.E in Computer Science. He also has an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He handles technology and finance at Walnut. He is also active in the technology community in Pune. He is a core team member of CSPathshala, a nation-wide community driven open source computational thinking curriculum for schools, which is being implemented at Walnut Schools too. CSPathshala is used by lacs of students across India, and has been translated to 5 major languages. CSPathshala is an ACM India initiative, initially supported by Google. Earlier, he was looking after technology and administration in Millennium National School for over a decade. Nikhil was also involved with the Computer Society of India, where he was also the Chairman of the Pune Chapter for 2014-15. He has guided various students for projects in Computer Science. He is also involved closely with the budding startup community in Pune, and was one of the core team members of POCC . Prior to returning to India, Nikhil was employed with EMC Corporation, USA in their Advanced Research team, and StorageTek in various capacities. Nikhil is a Charter Member of TiE Pune, where he is actively working with mentoring startups via the TiE Nurture program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwikipadia.com\/nefconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}