What Drives Us

Mission: We believe the way businesses form partnerships today is broken — slow, manual, and built for a world that no longer exists. We're building the exchange layer for the global economy, where any business can instantly discover, connect, and integrate with any other — without friction, without intermediaries, and without limits.

Our vision is to build the collaboration infrastructure for businesses for the AI era, for a world where businesses form partnerships instantly, autonomously, and without limits.

Our Values

Simplicity

Solutions should be simple: simple to implement, simple to manage, and simple to understand. Even when addressing a complex problem, we seek the straightforward answers

Flexibility

We don't subscribe to a one-size-fits all model. We build to adapt and evolve, and we believe that improvement is achieved through willingness and openness to change

Community

We believe in the power of community. Our clients and our partners play an integral role in our ecosystem, and we grow stronger when we grow together

Team

At Konduit, our leadership combines experience scaling businesses at category leaders like Capital One and E*Trade with the engineering rigor of building scalable products at tech innovators like Amazon and Swiggy.

Nish Krishna

Founder & CEO

Nishith Krishna is a Computer Science major from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and a Henry McCracken Fellow from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (NYU) ranked among the top three in the world for Applied Mathematics. He has authored multiple research papers on managing consistency in large-scale distributed computing during his work at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Nish earned his MBA from the Darden School of Business and thereafter managed growth for credit card, lending, and direct brokerage businesses at Capital One, M&T Bank, and E*Trade. At PenFed credit union, Nish was business head for unsecured lending that he grew to $12M ARR in a year after inception. He later founded Konduit, a Techstars and VC-backed fintech partner network that processes over 10 million API calls per month.

Prajwal Nayak

Chief Technology Officer

Prajwal Nayak is a Computer Science graduate from Manipal University and a former Senior Software Engineer at Swiggy, a $11 billion Indian tech startup where he built a multi-stage canary deployment system for AWS Lambda and Step Functions, adopted by 200+ services across 40 teams.

In 2024, he won 2nd place at MetaAI's Llama Impact Hackathon in San Francisco and was the sole recipient of a full scholarship among 2,000 startup founders for the elite Hero Program at Draper University, founded by veteran venture capitalist Tim Draper. His work includes published research on ICU patient length-of-stay prediction and a widely-read five-part AWS Serverless Computing blog series.