Nitish Patkar

I am currently a research associate at FHNW (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland) within the Institute for Interactive Technologies.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Bern. Between 2018 and 2022, I was a member of the Software Composition Group led by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz. My work primarily focuses on requirements engineering, with a strong interest in UX, digital sustainability, and improving agile way of development.

Discover my doctoral research thesis, titled Supporting Multiple Stakeholders in Agile Development.

Education

Ph.D.
University of Bern, Switzerland
March 2018-March 2022
Research topics: requirements engineering, domain modelling, collaborative development

M.Sc.
University of Paderborn, Germany
March 2014-February 2018
Focus point: Information and database systems

B.E.
University of Mumbai, India
2009-2012

Professional experience

University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-western Switzerland (FHNW), as a Research associate
March 2022-Present

• Co-Teaching Requirements Engineering course at bachelor’s level.
• Co-teaching for the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
• Teaching as an Agile Coach for semester 3 and 4 students for a yearlong industry project.
• Teaching as an Team Coach for semester 1 and 1 students for a yearlong internal project focused on RUP.
• Proposing and supervising bachelor thesis and guiding students through the whole process of problem identification and proposing and validating a solution.
• Managing several innovation projects with our industry partners.
• Preparing project proposals to acquire funding.

University of Bern, as a Research assistant
February 2018-February 2022

• Supervising several bachelor and master thesis and guiding students through the whole process of problem identification and proposing and validating a solution.
• Worked as a tutor and successfully conducted a semester long software engineering project for four consecutive years. Each year, about 50-60 students were guided into the process of identifying and specifying requirements, making prototypes, implementation and testing.
• Worked as an independent instructor for the Seminar in Software Engineering (BSc/MSc). This course explored the research landscape of the software engineering field, and state-of-the- art tools and techniques in it to develop the prototypical tools and techniques for various topics.

ActiDo GmbH, Paderborn, as a Web developer
2017-2018

• Built a proof-of-concept for a web application using React.
• Main tasks involved implementing provided designs into HTML, CSS and writing frontend logic with React.

University of Paderborn, as a Research assistant
2016-2018

• Worked with clients at Volksbank and university sports department to understand their requirements for a sports application.
• Developed a single page application using Angular and Django Rest framework as a proof of concept for the employees at Volkbank.

Infosys Ltd., India, as a Systems Engineer
2012-2014

• Was a part of a team that worked on product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms, e.g., Windchill.
• Worked on building a web application for a US-based client “Cox communications.”
  

Other

Check out Excerpts Page where I occasionally collect interesting and important lessons that I cherish.