Nihit Desai
Engineering at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNihit Desai is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building large-scale ML and search systems, currently contributing to Databricks’ Agent Bricks initiative. He co-founded Refuel.AI and led its technical vision as CTO until acquisition by Together.ai, briefly serving there as Director/Principal Engineer before joining Databricks. Prior to founding Refuel, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Meta working on multimodal ML for trust & safety and efficient similarity search, and earlier drove search quality at LinkedIn. NIHIT pairs deep systems and ML expertise with product-focused engineering, shipping production-grade solutions for content matching and retrieval at internet scale. Based in San Francisco, he holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a BTech from IIT Madras, reflecting a strong academic foundation underpinning his applied work. An indicator of his practical impact is repeatedly moving from research-grade systems into deployable platforms and successful startup exit.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (22)
python10
langchain10
data-science10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
llm10
huggingface-transformers10
openai10
nlp9
speech-recognition8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
pytorch8
tensorflow7
bert7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
refuel-ai/autolabel
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Label, clean and enrich text datasets with LLMs.
Contributions:8 releases, 263 reviews, 135 PRs in 1 year 8 months
anthropic-claudedata-sciencegpt-4huggingface-transformerslangchain
refuel-ai/refuel-docs
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 reviews, 18 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
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