Nikhil Chandak
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Chandak is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Amazon from his base in Seattle. He blends industry practice with academic rigor—pursuing PhD research at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen on top of an MSc from USC and a BS from Thadomal Shahani Engineering College. Known for a growth mindset, he actively seeks new software and methods to accelerate product development and improve engineering outcomes. Comfortable across research and production environments, he brings a pragmatic approach to turning experimental ideas into reliable, deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marwari
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
language-modeling8
robotics7
transformer-architecture7
nlp7
planning6
motion-planning6
machine-learning6
javascript6
reinforcement-learning6
transformer5
deep-learning5
security4
language-model4
blockchain4
ompl3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilchandak/nikhilchandak.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:88 pushes in 4 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
nikhilchandak/Rapidly-Exploring-Random-Trees
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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