Summary
Neena D is an experienced software engineer with a decade of industry work, combining an MIT EECS background and a hands-on love of building and problem solving. She has progressed through engineering roles at Lightstep—from Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer—and now works as a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, focusing on networking and distributed systems. Her career includes internships at Facebook, Samsara, and BCG Digital Ventures, reflecting breadth across infrastructure and product startups. Based in New York, she blends systems thinking with maker instincts, often turning experimental projects into production-ready features. Though her GitHub bio simply says “building cool stuff,” her trajectory shows repeated delivery of scalable observability and distributed systems solutions at fast-moving companies. Colleagues value her for pragmatic engineering, curiosity, and a knack for making complex systems more reliable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High School, High School at Wakefield Girls' High School