An engineer who ships across the full stack — from soap-sized IoT sensors and custom firmware to agentic AI systems for India's power grid.
Nitish Kapoor is a Senior Software Engineer at Flock Energy, a climate-tech company building AI, IoT and data systems for India's power distribution sector. Based in New Delhi, Nitish works across the entire stack — from custom IoT hardware and firmware, through data infrastructure and machine learning, up to full-stack control platforms and agentic AI systems.
Over six years of shipping, Nitish has built nine products and won three major awards. He was the platform engineer behind Flock Energy's ENTICE 2.0-winning work, which secured ₹5 crore in technical assistance for an AI-powered energy disaggregation and analytics platform supporting DISCOM-level decision-making.
Nitish Kapoor describes himself as a generalist engineer. The work ranges across full-stack development (TypeScript, Node, React, SvelteKit, Postgres, Drizzle), backend and APIs (REST, IAM, Elasticsearch, Redis, SQS), data and ML (disaggregation models, LLMs, Ollama, Whisper), IoT and hardware (ESP32, custom PCBs, edge firmware), and the energy and grid domain (DISCOM analytics, disaggregation, policy context).
I'm an engineer. I can do anything.
At Flock Energy specifically, Nitish has built Flock Connect — a digital twin for the grid that powered the ENTICE 2.0 win — Flock Prime, a soap-sized power sensor with custom PCB and firmware, Flock Cockpit, a mission-control platform with live telemetry, OTA firmware and an embedded AI interface, and a typed agentic AI system that auto-generates schema-aware SQL, validated and retried, built on Gemini.
Flock Energy is a climate-tech company working at the intersection of AI, IoT hardware and the power distribution sector in India. Nitish Kapoor has been Sr. Software Engineer there since September 2024, leading platform engineering across the data, ML and hardware stack. The mission is decarbonisation at DISCOM scale — taking the messy reality of power distribution and turning it into decisions utilities can act on.
Nitish Kapoor began shipping production software in 2020, while still an engineering student at Bennett University, where he completed his B.Tech between 2021 and 2025. The Bennett years were also when he served as Core Team Lead at the ACM Bennett chapter and as a campus ambassador for The Times of India — early signals of someone who took the engineering and the storytelling sides of the work equally seriously.
Before Flock Energy, Nitish worked across two formative roles. At Happiest Minds, he contributed to U.S. Medicare eligibility infrastructure, learning enterprise-grade backend engineering inside one of the more demanding regulated domains in software — healthcare benefits in the United States. At IITI Drishti CPS, the IIT Indore Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, he served as a backend developer working on government-funded research-to-production pipelines. The combination — strict enterprise compliance on one side, public-sector R&D on the other — taught him the two flavours of seriousness an engineer needs to operate at DISCOM scale.
In September 2024, Nitish Kapoor joined Flock Energy as Senior Software Engineer. He is now the platform engineer behind Flock Energy's flagship products and the technical author of its data-and-AI architecture.
The flagship platform is Flock Connect — a digital twin for the Indian distribution grid. Flock Connect ingests fragmented smart-meter data, normalises it across protocols, and turns it into a unified data ecosystem that utilities, service providers and consumers can all act on. The platform supports grid-level analytics down to individual households, solar adoption potential, EV forecasting, demand-response orchestration, an identity layer for behind-the-meter assets, and the foundational layer for peer-to-peer energy exchange. It is the system that won Flock Energy the ENTICE 2.0 grant — ₹5 crore in technical assistance — in August 2025.
Underneath Flock Connect sits Flock Prime, the company's soap-sized energy monitor. Nitish designed and shipped Flock Prime end to end: a custom PCB, firmware running on ESP32-S3 microcontrollers, a hardened enclosure, encrypted Wi-Fi telemetry, remote configuration, OTA updates, and a 2+ year battery life. Prime is the upstream sensor that feeds every other product in the stack with real-time, household-level current data — without requiring a smart meter, a hub, or a rewiring job.
On top of the data layer sits Flock Cockpit — a mission-control platform Nitish built from scratch in TypeScript, React, Node and Postgres. Cockpit runs live telemetry of R/Y/B phase currents, pushes firmware with rollback safety, surfaces appliance-level insights with rupee-level cost attribution, and exposes an embedded AI interface so utility operators can query their grid in natural language.
The AI itself is Tesseract, an agentic system Nitish architected on Gemini. Tesseract does not hallucinate. It plans, validates, and runs parallel SQL against the energy data through a typed agent pipeline — intent, validate, dispatch, parallel execute, synthesise — so the utility analyst gets a chart-plus-markdown answer that is grounded in real database queries, not invented numbers. It supports multi-turn memory and was built without templated agent frameworks.
Beyond the Flock stack, Nitish has shipped Radiance (an AI solar lead platform with WhatsApp qualification bots and a verified-lead marketplace), Crux (a multi-agent debate chamber for decision support), Xsells (an enterprise CRM that cut lead leakage 15% via Meta API real-time capture), and Captify (a real-time AI subtitle pipeline using Whisper and translation APIs). Nine products in six years, across full-stack, hardware, ML, agentic AI, CRM and applied NLP.
In April 2026, Nitish Kapoor spoke at the India Energy Stack Data Exchange workshop, presenting on the platform layer adapter work behind Flock Connect — making the case that the energy sector's bottleneck is not algorithms but integration. The themes from that talk later became his most-shared LinkedIn essay, "It lacks connectivity."
In February 2026, Flock Energy won the Climate Redesign Award at Delhi Climate Innovation Week 2026 — recognising the company's AI-powered work on India's power distribution sector. In September 2025, the 1st National Conference on AI & ML in the Power Distribution Sector — convened by the Ministry of Power (Government of India), REC Ltd and Power Finance Corporation — recognised Nitish and Flock Energy as a Technology Solution Provider for AI-driven consumer analytics and grid intelligence. In August 2025, the ENTICE 2.0 Energy Transitions Innovation Challenge awarded Flock Energy ₹5 crore in technical assistance — the largest single recognition the company has received and the work Nitish led on the platform side.
Nitish Kapoor publishes regularly on LinkedIn under @nitishkapoor. The essays cover the seams of the energy sector, the engineering culture of early-stage climate-tech, and the broader question of what it means to ship work that touches a real industry. Recent pieces include:
The through-line across every product Nitish Kapoor has shipped is simple: solve the actual problem. Most engineering problems in the climate-tech and energy sectors are not algorithm problems. They are integration problems, field-knowledge problems, distribution problems, regulatory problems and trust problems. The technical work is necessary but not sufficient. Nitish optimises for shipping things that move on the ground, not artefacts that look good in a deck.
That posture explains why a single engineer ends up writing typed agentic AI on Monday, hand-soldering a sensor enclosure on Tuesday, sitting in a Ministry of Power conference room on Wednesday, and writing a LinkedIn essay on Thursday. The job is the full job. The deliverable is a working system at DISCOM scale, not a deliverable.
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