Nikhil Bhargava
Machine Learning Engineer III at Homebound
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Bhargava is a Machine Learning Engineer III in New York with eight years of experience building production ML systems across recommendation, pricing, and retrieval-augmented generation with LLMs. At Homebound he progressed through ML roles to the core AI team, shipping pricing models and platform-level ML solutions for homebuilding. His background includes an MS in Interdisciplinary Data Science from Duke and applied work creating a satellite-imagery pipeline to estimate power plant stack heights, cutting baseline error by 25%. He pairs academic NLP teaching and practical data science across industries—from vehicle telemetry at Rivian to cross-company consulting at Valkyrie—bringing both research rigor and product-focused execution. Colleagues rely on him for bridging model development to deployment and mentoring junior engineers, a skill he formalized by designing an intern onboarding and mentorship program.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Interdisciplinary Data Science, Master of Science - MS Interdisciplinary Data Science at Duke UniversityBachelor’s Degree Civil Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Westwood High School
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (7)
capstone4
imagery2
duke2
height2
satellite-imagery1
satellite1
gitlab1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil-bhargava/ids-706-fp
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:43 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
nikhil-bhargava/sneakairs
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 24 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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