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Nimit Maru

Working on something new. Former CEO and Co-Founder of Fullstack Academy.

New York, New York

Work Experience

  • 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.

  • 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.