Nick Karnik
Lead Software Development Engineer at PitchBook
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Karnik is a seasoned engineering and product leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling software across Google, Microsoft, Salesforce/Tableau, T-Mobile, and public-health research at the Institute for Disease Modeling. He blends deep technical chops—shipping developer tools, cloud platforms, connector SDKs, and AI-driven productivity features—with pragmatic product thinking, most recently leading Gemini Code Assist for VS Code at Google. He has led teams from small startups to 35-person organizations, modernizing architectures, launch pipelines, and telemetry-driven workflows that materially improved developer experience and system reliability. His work on spatial disease modeling contributed visuals featured in Bill Gates’ TED Talk, reflecting a rare mix of mission-driven science software and commercial product delivery. An active full-stack practitioner and contributor (notably to projects like the Script# C#→JavaScript compiler), he’s equally comfortable in hands-on engineering, platform architecture, or fractional CTO roles. Based in Redmond, WA, he focuses on building products that matter and turning research prototypes into production-quality developer tools.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Montgomery CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
html10
dynamic10
javascript10
web-development10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
eclipse6
react-router6
nodejs6
math6
signalr6
react6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilk/scriptsharp
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Script# Project - a C# to JavaScript compiler, to power your HTML5 and Node.js web development.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed significantly to the Script# project, a C# to JavaScript compiler. They implemented features related to HTML5 File Access API, including stubs for various classes and modifications to the Window class. Furthermore, the user addressed parameter order issues in the ScriptSharp.Testing library. They also updated and refactored existing code and files related to file access and related functionality.
compilercsharpjavascriptnodejsweb-development
theoutlander/ol3guide
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 2 days
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