Nikhil Garg
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNikhil Garg is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14 years building large-scale ML and data infrastructure, currently leading next-generation AI/ML infrastructure for Ads at Meta. He co-founded Fennel (acquired by Databricks) to simplify data infrastructure for ML teams and previously oversaw ~100 ML engineers and a ~60-engineer PyTorch organization at Facebook. Comfortable moving between startup scrappiness and enterprise-scale systems, he has a strong track record in platform, recommendation, and ML tooling that spans product, infra, and open-source ecosystems. A graduate of IIT Delhi, he combines deep technical chops with operational rigor—having hired at scale, driven company-wide tech strategy, and shipped infrastructure used across teams. Notably, his background includes hands-on contributions from low-level distributed web servers to foundational ML platform work, reflecting both breadth and depth. Based in California, he blends founder-level product instincts with proven executive leadership in AI systems.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
asynchronous9
networking9
privacy-preserving9
search-ui9
rust8
data-mining8
semantic-search7
machine-learning7
natural-language-processing7
ranking7
knowledge-graph7
deep-learning7
mlops7
search-engine6
ecommerce5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fennel-ai/fann
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Approx nearest neighbor search in Rust
Contributions:8 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
nearest-neighbor-searchrust
nikhilgarg28/libalgo
Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 7 months
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