Daniel Nishi is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience in building and shipping consumer and systems-level products at Google and DeepMind, currently based in Mountain View. He led Nearby Share for Windows and App Streaming on Chrome OS and has deep expertise in large-scale product launches and cross-platform engineering. Outside work he’s an LLM tinkerer who fine-tuned a 7B model to a world-class MT-Bench score and experiments with novel sparse upscaling using Mixtral MoE architectures. Comfortable moving between product leadership and hands-on model engineering, he combines production-grade software rigor with cutting-edge ML research instincts.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Daniel Nishi - Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind