Nihanth Dara
Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNihanth Dara is a Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building and operating live streaming platforms, currently leading a team at The Walt Disney Company supporting Hulu and Disney’s streaming services. He progressed from backend engineer roles at Ooyala and Hulu to senior and leadership positions, combining deep system design for high-throughput, resilient media pipelines with hands-on delivery. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) with practical expertise in scalable backend systems and live content delivery. An avid Golang enthusiast, he prefers coding in Go and brings that pragmatic, performance-minded mindset to production engineering and team mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Prakash Higher Secondary SchoolIntermediate Maths Physics Chemistry, Intermediate Maths Physics Chemistry at Gowtham Residential Junior College10th, 10th at KCP Siddhartha Adarsh Residential Public SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science (Intelligent Systems), Master's degree Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science & Engineering at JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (32)
google-play8
kubernetes8
player7
music7
package-manager6
validate6
lambda6
go6
dockerfile6
struct6
docker6
amazon-iam6
amazon-web-services6
capability6
go-modules6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nihanthd/website
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:16 PRs, 38 pushes, 39 branches in 6 years 7 months
kubernetes
nihanthd/kala
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
Modern Job Scheduler
Contributions:9 PRs, 14 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 11 months
golangjobjob-schedulerscheduler
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