Neel Dani
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNeel Dani is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on the intersection of machine learning and systems—especially ML compilers, kernel programming, and hardware/software co-design for inference and training. He has moved between research and production roles at top-tier organizations, contributing to ML systems at UIUC, maintaining npm at GitHub, accelerating sovereign cloud infrastructure at Microsoft, and optimizing model performance for Waymo. His background spans ML research, distributed systems teaching, and low-level systems engineering, giving him a rare ability to translate academic ideas into production-ready infrastructure. Neel’s hands-on experience includes building below-ARM control planes and improving package manager reliability, signaling both security-minded and performance-oriented engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines a CS master’s from UIUC with practical experience across cloud, autonomous systems, and developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE, ICSE at Jamnabai Narsee SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
distributed-training10
npm-cli10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
inference10
data-parallelism10
deepspeed10
deep-learning10
gpu10
compression10
javascript9
npm9
python9
nodejs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
neeldani/Parallel-KNN
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
neeldani/Parallel-Matrix-Fast-Exponentiation-Algorithm
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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