Nihar Bagkar

Portfolio · Vol. 01 · New York · 2026

Resume

I make software for money, music, and the things people collect.

About me Resume (PDF)

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  • Viridian

    01/20
    Viridian's market screen with a price tape and live listings Viridian's card detail screen for a verified Silvally GX card Viridian's order screen for buying or selling shares of a booster box

    Fintech · iOS

    A fractional marketplace for collectible trading cards.

    Live on App Store✦ Foil

    Viridian

    01/20

    Track card prices, buy fractional ownership, and manage a portfolio through one exchange. Built in SwiftUI on Supabase.

    • Live on the App Store
    • Auth, portfolio, pricing, and order management
    App Store Case file

  • UPHouse

    02/20
    UPHouse's Games hub with daily puzzles UPHouse's home dashboard with the next event, forum and polls UPHouse's shared calendar with an upcoming event

    Social · iOS

    A clubhouse for your friends: birthdays, polls, and games in one private space.

    Live on App Store✦ Foil

    UPHouse

    02/20

    An invite-only home for a friend group, with a shared calendar, polls, forums, trackers, and daily games. No public feed, no strangers.

    • Live on the App Store since September 2026
    • RSVPs, streak and leaderboard trackers, and a group switcher
    App Store Case file

  • SignalPath

    03/20
    SignalPath inside the IcM incident page, showing a six-step guided analysis for a Sev 1 outage

    AI · DevOps

    One click from a Sev 1 incident to the engineer who can fix it.

    Hackathon build · live demo✦ Foil

    SignalPath

    03/20

    A zero-input IcM extension that traces the service-dependency graph to the root-cause service and routes it to the right on-call engineer with a fix package.

    • Top five of 47 teams at a Microsoft intern hackathon
    • Joins IcM on-call data with Azure DevOps activity
    Demo Case file

  • Cue

    04/20
    Cue's search screen with a purple music-note mascot and the prompt Search for your perfect sound

    AI · Music

    Describe a sound in words, get production-ready audio.

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    Cue

    04/20

    Semantic sound search for producers: language in, usable samples out. Less digging, more making.

    • 25+ producer interviews
    • MVP shipped in one sprint cycle
    Visit Cue Case file

  • IB Prep Hub

    05/20
    IB Prep Hub logo

    Fintech · Workflow

    Applications, outreach, and prep in one recruiting dashboard.

    Live✦ Foil

    IB Prep Hub

    05/20

    One daily command center for investment banking recruiting, replacing four separate workflows.

    • 4 workflows in one dashboard
    • Built for high-volume recruiting
    Visit ibprep.vercel.app

  • BCPS Parser

    06/20
    Baltimore City Public Schools logo

    AI · Finance

    Messy budget PDFs in, clean tables out.

    Open source✦ Foil

    BCPS Parser

    06/20

    Extracts budgeting tables from PDFs into clean, audit-ready output for finance teams and analysts.

    • Automated extraction of 170+ budget files
    • Cleaner, audit-ready structure
    View the repository

  • BinderChain

    07/20
    BinderChain logo: linking collections through blockchain with efficiency and security

    Infrastructure · Trust

    Verifiable ownership records for collectibles.

    Live✦ Foil

    BinderChain

    07/20

    A trust platform that reduces fraud and ownership ambiguity in the collectibles market.

    • Ownership traceability modeled end to end
    • Fraud-risk scenarios mapped in the product flow
    Visit binderchain.vercel.app

  • Soccer Analytics

    08/20
    Match forecast for Arsenal v Chelsea showing win, draw and loss probabilities, expected goals for each team, and a most-likely score of 2–0

    Sports Analytics · Python

    Football forecasts on free data, graded honestly against the market.

    Side project · 610 tests, CI✦ Foil

    Soccer Analytics

    08/20

    Local Streamlit app: free data from 34 divisions, match and season forecasts, xG scouting, and a scorecard against the closing odds.

    • 274k matches across 34 divisions since 1993, on $0 of data
    • Market-informed ratings cut the gap to closing odds by a third
    GitHub Case file

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Portrait of Nihar Bagkar in a grey suit, smiling

Product · Venture · Fintech

NYU Stern, New York. Last season: Microsoft, product intern.

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Season stats

2026
GPA at NYU Stern
3.88
Startups screened
75+
Investment memos
20+
Budget files automated
170+
Producer interviews
25+
of 47 hackathon teams
Top 5
Hours saved by automation
100+
Club attendance growth
114%
Resume (PDF)

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About

A product builder in New York

I’m Nihar. I study Business, Technology & Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern, and I spent summer 2026 as a product management intern at Microsoft. Most of what I build starts as a messy workflow that someone is tired of doing by hand.

Studying
NYU Stern, BS in Business, Technology & Entrepreneurship. 3.88 GPA.
Screening
75+ startups and 20+ investment memos at the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship.
Automating
170+ budget files at Baltimore City Public Schools, saving 100+ hours.
Shipping
Viridian, a collectibles exchange, and UPHouse, a social app for friend groups, are live on the App Store.

Resume (PDF)

Notes

How I work

My best work happens when a problem is vague and someone needs it to feel obvious. That usually means building the thing that makes other people faster: a workflow, a dashboard, a small decision layer on top of messy information.

I like to start with the person doing the work. For Cue, that meant 25+ interviews with music producers. For the budget parser, it meant replacing tables that used to be pulled out of PDFs by hand.

Build the boring tool well and the people using it get their afternoons back.
  1. Product framing. Turning a vague idea into a scope, a roadmap, and something people can try.
  2. Venture context. Screening markets and turning research into a clear yes or no.
  3. Systems work. Automating the repeatable parts so teams can spend time on the hard ones.

Reading

What I’m reading

  • Now reading

    Abby Offsides Anna McCallie, 2026

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    Foster Claire Keegan, 2010

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    Autumn Ali Smith, 2016

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    The Go-Giver Bob Burg and John David Mann, 2007

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    The Go-Giver Leader Bob Burg and John David Mann, 2016

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    The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly, 2005

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    Hidden Potential Adam Grant, 2023

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    What It Takes Stephen A. Schwarzman, 2019

Path

Where I’ve been working

  1. Summer 2026

    Microsoft, Product Management Intern

    Product work at enterprise scale, plus SignalPath, a hackathon build for incident routing that placed in the top five of 47 teams.

  2. 2025 – now

    Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, Operations Intern

    Screened 75+ startups and wrote 20+ investment memos. Redesigned the opportunity pipeline’s data architecture, improving retrieval and monitoring by 30%.

  3. Summer 2025

    Baltimore City Public Schools, Financial Systems Intern

    Built dashboards and models over a rolling five-year budget, automated extraction of 170+ budget files, and presented KPIs to finance leadership.

  4. On campus

    Product Management Club & Entrepreneurial Exchange Group

    Led student communities, with 114% attendance growth, ownership of the budget, and events with founders and investors.

Index

Writing & recognition

Publications

Awards

  • Uber Finance Case Competition Winner
  • CodePi Ideathon Winner
  • NYUVC Finalist
  • Stern Scholarship Recipient
  • CV Hall of Fame Business Student
  • Dean’s List NYU Stern
  • Future Goals Scholarship Recipient
  • H.A.R.I Temple Scholarship Recipient
  • Summa Cum Laude CVHS

Contact

Say hello

If you’re working on product strategy, venture workflows, or something that should be automated and isn’t yet, I’d like to hear about it.

nihar.bagkar@stern.nyu.edu GitHub LinkedIn

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