At Archera, Plushcap can learn that Nikhil Khanna, Co-Founder and CTO, brings his unique quantitative background and experience in options trading to build an automated solution for managing and optimizing cloud resources, leveraging machine learning and complex financial modeling. Before creating Archera, Nikhil worked on the future's trading team at D.E. Shaw and in the financial data science field at Uber, where he diagnosed a financial problem with Uber's marketplace in Latin America. He realized that his background in machine learning and financial forecasting was valuable for solving the inefficiencies and dysfunctions within large companies. His experience with cloud providers led to him noticing a significant discrepancy between expected and actual cloud bills, which inspired him to create Archera to enable frictionless innovation on the cloud by automating cloud resource management. Nikhil's solution combines automation with financial forecasting to streamline the cloud optimization process for customers. He aims to integrate his solution into typical workflows to provide more accurate estimates of cloud-based usage needs.