Nikhil Iyer
Staff Engineer at Drivetrain
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Iyer is a Staff Engineer with 9 years of experience building AI-driven products and backend systems, currently leading engineering at Drivetrain—a self-serve FP&A platform. He combines research-grade ML experience from Microsoft Research India and Haptik with hands-on startup leadership as co-founder of Opino, where he designed scalable social features and grew DAU substantially. His work spans productionizing unsupervised intent-discovery pipelines, designing backend APIs, and improving model generalization for large neural nets, with publications and SOTA results from his research. Comfortable moving between prototyping and shipping, he brings a pragmatic blend of product focus, ML research rigor, and growth-oriented engineering. An under-the-hood detail: he has experience improving QA systems on large contexts and applying transfer learning to out-of-domain tasks like fake news detection.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campusschool, school at J. H. Ambani Saraswati Vidymandir School
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Github Skills (24)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
width10
sequence-to-sequence10
pytorch9
minima9
gpu9
ai9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
twitter7
neural-network7
numpy7
gpu-acceleration6
tensor6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil-iyer-97/wide-minima-density-hypothesis
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Details about the wide minima density hypothesis and metrics to compute width of a minima
Contributions:7 reviews, 36 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
minimawidthdensitycomputedetails
nikhil-iyer-97/HITS-Algorithm-implementation
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
Implementation of HITS algorithm for finding hub and authority scores for twitter users
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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