Nakul Dahiwade
Engineering Manager II at Uber
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNakul Dahiwade is an engineering leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native and AI-driven products, currently managing engineering at Uber after leading generative AI efforts and Alexa conversational initiatives at Amazon. He combines hands-on systems work—contributing upstream to OpenStack Heat and other cloud projects—with product-facing ML work like LLM-based suggestion engines and low-latency inference services. Known for cultivating diverse, high-performing teams, Nakul navigates complex stakeholder environments to deliver practical, production-ready solutions. His background spans embedded and cloud systems, evidenced by early contributions to edge and SDN stacks and a penchant for small open-source ML projects that bridge research and real-world deployment.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Telecommunication at Symbiosis Institute of TechnologyHSC SSC, HSC SSC at Centre Point School, Nagpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (8)
debugging10
debug10
error-handling10
service-provider10
openstack10
service-design10
python10
database-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/heat
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nakul primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the OpenStack Heat project. Their work involved addressing issues related to dictionary iteration errors in Python, specifically related to external fixed IPs and cinder quotas. They also improved the system by addressing issues related to stack deletion, and CIDR and IP address constraints, and enhancing the error handling. The user demonstrated a focus on improving code stability and addressing edge cases.
opendevheatopenstackorchestration
nakuldahiwade/REST-vs-GraphQL
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A demonstration of the major difference between REST and GraphQL. This demonstrates how GraphQL solves the problem of over and under-fetching in modern Web Development.
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 days
difference-betweenfetchingrestgraphqlmodern-web
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