Nikhil Rao

Nikhil Rao is the cofounder and CEO of Reflex (formerly Pynecone), an open-source framework that lets developers build full-stack web apps in pure Python without touching JavaScript or React. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate who worked at VMware, Drive.ai, and Apple, he founded Reflex in 2022 with college roommate Alek Petuskey after watching brilliant ML engineers struggle to ship simple user interfaces. Reflex went through Y Combinator's W23 batch, raised a $5M seed led by Lux Capital, and has grown into an enterprise platform used for internal tools across roughly 30% of the Fortune 500.