# Naresh Sikha

> Technology Leader | Architect | Principal Engineer | Outdoor Enthusiast

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nareshsikha

## Work Experience
### Architect @ Credit Karma
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Driving value at the intersection of MGenAI and monetization.

### Founding CTO | Technology Consultant @ Various Startups
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Co-founder/CTO - Stealth
  - Architected and prototyped a multi-tenant FinTech SaaS platform for private markets research

Lead Developer, Initial Capacity - ex Pivotal Labs
  - Worked across the stack of a wealth and risk management platform to deliver integration milestones for an acquisition

Founder and Technology Consultant, Redpoint Labs
  - Tech Lead and Architect for a new FinTech site on Cloudflare Workers

### SVP of Engineering @ Forge
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
SVP, Architecture - 2023
- Established the Architecture team, lead the next generation app platform and web platform teams.

SVP, Engineering - Capital Markets - 2021-2022
- Scaled the organization and product delivery while meeting the maturity expectations of a recently IPO-ed company

VP, Engineering - Capital Markets and Forge Intelligence - 2018 - 2021
- Lead the organization through acquisition and IPO
- Initial committer of the Forge Intelligence product

### Director, Architecture @ StubHub
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Chief Architect for the company’s global cloud migration strategy. Led vendor selection and collaborated on the development and migration of initial workloads.
- Led the enterprise architecture group covering web, application and data platforms, payments, and APIs.
- Designed StubHub’s mobile app integration architecture by introducing a Node.js API layer to mediate between the mobile apps and the backend services.

### Principal, Product Design and Engineering @ Charles Schwab
Jan 2002 – Jan 2015
- Established Schwab’s hybrid mobile app architecture and coordinated several teams across the country to synchronize the delivery of iOS, Android, Web, API, Backend, and Marketing products to align on the release announcement of Schwab Intelligent Portfolios.
- Konstantinos P. Konstantinides, Naresh Sikha, Janardhan D. Kakarla, Eliel R. Johnson. 2023. System and method for mobile payments. [US11810095B1](https://patents.google.com/patent/US11810095B1/en), filed 2013-02-19, granted 2023-11-07.
- As lead Developer for Java and .NET frameworks was able to go deep into language internals, distributed systems deployments across data centers, and advocate for engineering excellence. Was able to bring relevant technologies to the large user base of software engineers at Schwab.

### Software Engineer @ Various Startups
Jan 1997 – Jan 2002 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Software Engineering Consultant, San Francisco, CA
- Software Engineer, Open Table, San Francisco, CA
- SAP Consultant, The Amber Group, San Mateo, CA
- Software Engineering Intern, Apple, Cupertino, CA


## Education
### MBA in Finance, Real Estate
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

### BA in Mathematics, Computer Science, French
Southern Utah University

### Economics in Asian Studies
Vassar College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nareshsikha

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Last updated: 2026-04-13