Goutam Nair is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Search Ads at Google after building first-party search infrastructure at Twitch. He holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science and has research experience in NLP and question-answering systems, having built a distractor-generation module for SmartReader. Goutam has applied his expertise across industry and research—from Siri at Apple to data science roles at IIIT—demonstrating a strong foundation in search, natural language understanding, and scalable systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on production engineering at large tech companies. Colleagues describe him as a keen, enthusiastic learner who deliberately seeks cross-platform impact rather than narrow specialization.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems, Computer Science, M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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