About
Nikshep Kulli — an engineering leader who ships.
Most recently Head of Engineering at a 21-store omnichannel organic-retail brand, where I ran the full tech org — storefront, mobile, data, and cloud — and the delivery discipline behind it. Before that, co-founder and CTO work building products from zero.
How I work
Hands-on, not slideware
I ship the fix, not just the recommendation.
Secure by default
Least-privilege access, no long-lived secrets, staging before prod.
Traceable
Every change linked to an issue; nothing becomes unexplainable history.
Built to hand back
Clean, documented, version-controlled work your team owns after I leave.
The spine
Built to hand back.
Most fractional leadership creates dependency. We sell the opposite: a clean exit. Everything we build is documented, version-controlled, and readable by the team that inherits it — because the engagement is finished when your people can run it without us.
- No proprietary tooling you can't maintain — your stack, your repos, your cloud account.
- Every change linked to an issue, so the history explains itself a year later.
- Handover documentation written during the work, not scrambled together at the end.
What working with us looks like
One process, every client — we don't improvise a new one for you.
- 1
Discovery call
You tell us what's stuck. We tell you straight whether we're the right team for it.
- 2
Scoped proposal
A written scope and price within 24–48 hours of the call.
- 3
Sign & onboard
E-sign, then one short onboarding form for access. Least-privilege from day one.
- 4
Embedded delivery
The pod works inside your stack, shipping to production through review gates.
- 5
Handback
Documented, version-controlled systems your team owns. References on request.
The team
A senior pod, not a rotating bench of contractors.
Kulli & Co. is led by a former Head of Engineering and delivered by senior engineers who work inside your stack as one embedded pod — not a spec-and-disappear vendor. The team sits India-side; the day overlaps your morning for live calls and covers your off-hours, so you wake up to progress already made.
Nikshep Kulli
Founder & Principal Engineer
Ships production systems end to end — cloud, platform, and payments — and hands back clean, owned code.
Cloud & platformPaymentsDevOpsDesign & Frontend, Mobile, and Data & Analytics are staffed onto a pod as an engagement's scope needs them — we don't list empty seats. A new member gets a card here, credited by name, once they're placed on client work.
Roster is edited at /admin — add, edit, or remove a partner in a form, and the save is a commit. No code, no database.