Nikhil Mungel, Head of AI R&D

Head of AI R&D, Cribl

Nikhil Mungel currently serves as the head of AI R&D at Cribl, where he works on setting technical direction and leading teams researching and building LLM-powered systems for IT and security data transformation and analysis. Earlier in his career, Mungel helped grow Splunk’s platform adoption as head of the developer ecosystem, spanning developer experience, APIs, integrations, and partner-facing tooling. He later led engineering at Substack across distributed systems, mobile apps, and mission-critical email deliverability.