An entrepreneurial visionary with a passion for technology, finance, and strategic innovation, shaping the future of business.

Kavun Nuggihalli

Software Engineer | Finance & Strategy

Professional Experience

SAP America, Inc.

Sr. Finance & Technology Consultant,
North America

Dell Technologies Inc.

Software Engineer, Boomi Integration Technology

University of Pennsylvania

Full Stack Software Engineer, SPMS Hospital EHR software

Foundera AI

Co-Founder, Artificial Intelligence Beauty Technology Start-up

Entrepreneurial Achievements


Raised $100,000 from Innovation Works VC in a pre-seed round for Foundera AI (2024)
Accepted into the Alpha Lab Software accelerator program for Foundera AI (2023)
Awarded $10,000 from The Lori Hermelin Bush Seed Fund for Foundera AI (2022)
Awarded $5,000 from Blackstone LaunchPad & TechStars' Fellowship.(2020)
Sponsored by Goldman Sachs in Philadelphia Startup Leader’s Entrepreneur Expo (2019)
“Most Promising University Company” by Morgan Lewis LLP & Angle Venture Fair (2019)
Featured in the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technology’s (PACT 2018 & 2019)
Placed 2nd in the 20th annual Be Your Own Boss Bowl (Shark Tank style competition).
Winning a total of $35,000 in seed funding through pitch competitions (2018 & 2019)
Graduated Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute’s (IEI) startup accelerator (2018)

Kavun Nuggihalli presenting ConsiderCode

Latest Blog Posts

Celebrating the annual “Coming of Age Day Ceremony” and my 21st birthday in Tokyo...

For my 21st birthday I had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo, Japan. I could not imagine a better way to spend such a special day than immersing myself in the culture of Japan.

The Linux civil war, daemons & process supervision on AWS with Python scripts

If you are new to process supervision on Linux, be prepared to get involved in a long running war and controversy over service management in the kernel.

Custom built PC workstation gets a boost with an Nvidia RTX 2070 super graphics...

In 2015 I begun building my own PC with scrap parts I had collected. Now I have a powerhouse of a PC and I feel like there is nothing I can’t accomplish with it.

How to set up virtual hosts on a Mac for Apache, MySQL, PHP development...

With frameworks like CakePHP it becomes almost impossible to develop proper web applications using a Mac. Below are the instructions to setting up the MAMP stack and creating virtual hosts for multiple projects.