Nikhil Bhargava, Distributed Systems Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
Nikhil Bhargava

Distributed Systems Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since August 20, 2018
Nikhil enjoys building things more than anything else. After trying his hand at the startup game, Nikhil moved to Dropbox where he was a product manager for a few years. Since then, he has moved to MIT and finished a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence but still enjoys consulting and working on side projects.
Nikhil is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

San Francisco, CA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, Git, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is SurgeProtector, an iOS app built on the Uber API that tells users how far they have to walk to avoid surge pricing.

Employment

  • Research Assistant

    2016 - PRESENT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Built a front-end system orchestrating several planners for a joint excursion with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
    • Actively publishing novel results on planning and scheduling under temporal uncertainty.
    • Helped pioneer infrastructure that allows for plug-and-play planning and execution in generalized contexts.
    Technologies: React, TypeScript, Go, Lisp
  • Product Manager

    2014 - 2016
    Dropbox
    • Served as the partnerships liaison for software integrations with Microsoft and Adobe, creating inter-app user flows on iOS and Android.
    • Tripled commenting weekly active users during my tenure through rapid A/B testing and experimentation.
    • Helped orchestrate massive re-architecturing of underlying sharing paradigm, involved data scheme migration that touched virtually every product.
    Technologies: React, JavaScript, Go, Python
  • Co-founder

    2013 - 2014
    Cadence Labs
    • Pioneered the initial WebAudio app that synchronized playback across browsers.
    • Developed iOS app that featured audio device management as well as synchronous playback.
    • Built prototype for embedded device synchronized remote playback unit.
    Technologies: Objective-C, JavaScript, Python, Node.js

Experience

  • SurgeProtector

    SurgeProtector helps users find the closest place to them that is free of Uber surge pricing. We soft-launched but were very quickly discovered and heavily featured in various press clippings.

  • EnergyLiteracy (1000 Cheeseburgers)

    Helped develop the visualization behind MacArthur award winner, Saul Griffith's 1000 Cheeseburgers project which visualized US energy consumption at a level never seen before.

Skills

  • Languages

    Go, TypeScript, Objective-C, SQL, Python, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Swift
  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Node.js
  • Other

    Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems
  • Platforms

    iOS, MacOS
  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Tools

    Git, Vim Text Editor

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    2016 - 2020
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
    2013 - 2014
    Stanford University - Palo Alto, California
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Symbolic Systems
    2010 - 2014
    Stanford University - Palo Alto, California

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