Nimit Maru
Working on something new. Former CEO and Co-Founder of Fullstack Academy.
New York, New York
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Work Experience
2025
Co-Founder, CEO
2025
2012 - 2022
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Co-Founder, CEO
2012 - 2021
Co-founded Fullstack at Y Combinator, and grew it from a single NYC campus to a national software engineer talent engine. Graduated thousands of software engineers with industry-leading placement rates, signed partnerships with major universities (Caltech, LSU, Emory, Virgina Tech, etc), and grew revenue to eight figures before a successful acquisition by Zovio, a Nasdaq-listed Ed-Tech company.
2021 - 2022
Strategic Advisor
2021 - 2022
Worked directly with the CEO on talent strategy to attract and retain world-class engineers and operators at Abnormal. Led the launch of 'Abnormal Business School', an internal and external program to give top-performing employees a founder-level experience of building a hyper-growth company.
2015 - 2021
Co-Founder, CEO
2015 - 2021
The first coding bootcamp for women where students pay tuition only after graduating and starting a job. One of the earliest bootcamps in the world to offer Income Share Agreements.
2008 - 2010
Co-Founder
2008 - 2010
Co-founded Bloomspot, a premium local-offers platform that helped thousands of restaurants, spas, and small businesses grow revenue. Our over 3 million subscribers created significant revenue growth for SMB in a dozen+ cities, and we raised capital from Menlo, True, QED, and Harrison Metal. Acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) to power its card-linked offers program.
2007 - 2008
Co-Founder
2007 - 2008
Co-founded Wowzio and built the contextual widget engine that bloggers could add with a single line of code. The smart modules pushed readers deeper into the blog's content, increased ad views, and touched 35M unique users a month. Engadget, The Daily Mail, and dozens of other publishers used the platform for their widgets, eventually propelling us into Alexa’s global Top 250 sites. Wowzio.com went from new domain to Google PageRank 7 in just six months.
2005 - 2008
Sr. Software Engineer
2005 - 2008
Built software for Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Trip Planner Roles Included: - Sr. Software Engineer at Yahoo! Travel - Engineering Manager of Yahoo! Trip Planner - Co-founder of Yahoo! MapMixer
2004 - 2005
Software Engineer
2004 - 2005
Engineer on Clinical Graphics R&D Team. Built early versions of Cerner's Real-Time Bedside Patient Monitoring software in Java.
1994 - 1996
Newspaper Delivery Boy
1994 - 1996
Delivered daily local newspaper to 72 homes along Walter St and nearby streets in Norwalk, CT.