Summary
Niharika Jain is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing and shipping ad systems and auction logic at LinkedIn, where she progressed from intern to senior engineer working on Dynamic Ads and advertiser-facing bidding optimizations. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and has a strong research background in ML fairness and GAN bias, having published and studied how limited, non-uniform datasets exacerbate generative model bias. Comfortable across backend services, forecasting, and Java-based systems, she has delivered production features that improved campaign manager experiences and advertiser bid recommendations. Past internships at USAA and Microsoft complement her product-first engineering approach and teaching experience as a graduate TA, showing she both mentors and ships robust systems. Notably, her research-driven perspective informs practical solutions that reduce bias and improve outcomes in large-scale online systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Corona Del Sol High School
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Arizona State University
English, Hindi, French