Nicolai Safai
Senior Software Engineer at Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicolai Safai is a Senior Software Engineer at Twitch with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web and safety systems, currently focused on Safety ML and user safety tooling. He primarily ships React front ends and Go back ends to help protect communities at scale, bringing production experience across safety, moderation, and systems teams. Before Twitch he was an early employee and Head of Product at Make School, where he led product, marketing, and large-scale programs while delivering significant front-end and back-end code in Rails and React. His background in biopsychology and applied computer science gives him a data-informed, human-centered approach to designing moderation and educational products. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on engineering with product leadership and a track record of turning experimental programs into accredited, partner-backed operations. An operator who still codes daily, he’s comfortable moving between analytics, A/B testing, integrations and shipping customer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Computer Science at Make SchoolBaccalaureat Scientifique - Biologie, Baccalaureat Scientifique - Biologie at Lycée Français La PérouseBachelor of Science Biopsychology, Bachelor of Science Biopsychology at UC Santa BarbaraBaccalauréat Scientifique Biology General, Baccalauréat Scientifique Biology General at International High SchoolISTP
English, French, Swedish, Spanish, Persian
Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MakeItAwesome/Voters-Guide
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
A website that focuses on making voters' choices accessible by design
Contributions:81 commits, 18 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 month
reactaccessiblecssjavascriptvoters
nsafai/nsafai.github.io
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:87 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
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