# Nikhil Kapse > Engineering @ Yuzu Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilkapse ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Yuzu Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Founder in Residence @ Entrepreneur First Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Building a better consumer healthcare experience. ### Founder @ Speakeasy Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Conversational language learning tool built for WhatsApp, garnered 300 active users in 24 hours at launch. https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/news/Nikhil-Kapse-Speakeasy ### Founder @ Poetic Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Champaign, Illinois, United States An AI lyric-writing copilot that kills your writer's block ### Software Developer @ EarthSense, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Augmented 3D model construction of agricultural plots using image‑stitching, improving image processing speed by 7x. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Linguistics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Computer Science EPFL Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### buildspace ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-kapse - Website: https://www.nikhilkapse.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikhilkapse JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikhilkapse/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01