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Founder86Past founder
85th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
Fennel founder (acquired by Databricks) now Engineering Director at Meta
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 94th percentile
- Top GitHub repo 'delegate' has 115 stars — an AI coding-agent tool built and shipped publicly.
- Currently shipping public code — most recent push to 'delegate' was 73 days ago.
- Active builder with 26 public non-fork repositories on GitHub.
- GitHub account @nikhilgarg28 confirmed, with bio listing 'Cofounder Fennel, ex-Facebook, ex-Quora'.
- GitHub account is over 15 years old, created in June 2010.
- Hugging Face account @nikhilgarg identified.
- Stack Overflow account identified for Nikhil Garg with 4,034 reputation.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder and CEO of Fennel, which was acquired by Databricks.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @nikhilgarg28 confirmed, with bio listing 'Cofounder Fennel, ex-Facebook, ex-Quora'.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Fennel was co-founded with Abhay Bothra and Aditya Nambiar.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder with 26 public non-fork repositories on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account is over 15 years old, created in June 2010.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Top GitHub repo 'delegate' has 115 stars — an AI coding-agent tool built and shipped publicly.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Currently shipping public code — most recent push to 'delegate' was 73 days ago.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Fennel was acquired by Databricks (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Stack Overflow account identified for Nikhil Garg with 4,034 reputation.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Hugging Face account @nikhilgarg identified.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 9 and 1,587 citations across 81 works.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point — proven exit, active open-source project, and a senior infra role at Meta giving you runway to be deliberate. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are ones that sharpen your 'found again vs. angel' decision, get Delegate in front of the right technical audience, and put you in rooms where your ML infra pattern recognition translates directly into deal flow or co-founder chemistry.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA small founder dinner with 6–8 technical founders who've had acqui-hire or strategic acquisition exits (Databricks, Snowflake, Google ecosystem) to workshop the Fennel-to-Databricks narrative into a talk or blog post that sharpens your public positioning before your next move
- introsA roundtable with 8–10 active angel investors writing $10–50K checks into early-stage AI infra (think Conviction, SV Angel, and solo angels out of Databricks and Meta) to calibrate your angel thesis and get warm looks at deals already in their pipeline
- tacticalA tactical half-day workshop with founders who've successfully launched dev-tools on Show HN and Product Hunt (Warp, Zed, Modal) to pressure-test the Delegate README, positioning, and launch sequencing before you pull the trigger
- hiringAn IIT Delhi alumni founder dinner with other IIT-pedigreed technical founders in the Bay Area building or recently exiting AI-adjacent companies, to surface potential co-founders and early hires for your next venture
- fundraisingA happy hour for current and former Meta and Databricks infra engineers who've gone on to found or are actively considering founding, to trade notes on the Meta-exit forcing function and validate whether Delegate has legs as a standalone company
- tacticalA dinner with 5–6 ML platform leads at Series B–D companies (the exact ICP for Delegate) to get unfiltered feedback on whether they'd pay for AI task-delegation tooling and what the wedge product should be
- introsA roundtable for ACM ICPC finalists and Olympiad-background founders now building or investing in AI infra, to swap deal flow, co-founder leads, and candid takes on when to leave a senior big-tech role to found again
- positioningAn intimate office-hours session with 3–4 prolific Stack Overflow and open-source contributors in the PyTorch and distributed-systems space to identify the highest-signal questions to answer and open-source contributions to make that push your technical visibility over the threshold