Nikhil Jha
Member Of Technical Staff at Cognition
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Jha is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems and developer-facing tools, currently a Member of Technical Staff in Berkeley. He blends low-level systems work (firmware, OS tooling) with cloud-native infrastructure—shipping features at Amazon and Peloton, automating GPU job scheduling and ROS offload at BAIR, and migrating campus-scale services to Kubernetes at the Open Computing Facility. Nikhil is comfortable across the stack, from front-end contributions to the widely used Scratch GUI to backend automation and security-minded release tooling using Rust, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS. He values people and operational reliability, having reduced researcher downtime by an order of magnitude and served 100k+ end users through pragmatic automation and observability improvements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Portola High School
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
1,118reputation
246kreached
22answers
7questions
Github Skills (13)
component-development10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
testing8
git6
telegram6
rust6
borrow-checker6
macos6
emulation6
slice6
android-emulator6
Programming languages (41)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on modifying the graphical user interface of the Scratch-GUI project. Their contributions included removing the preview modal, implementing keyboard shortcuts for saving projects, and removing irrelevant tests. They also removed references and fixed linting issues, suggesting a focus on code cleanup and maintenance of the user interface components and the overall project.
graphicalscratchuser-interfacegraphical-user-interface
ocf/adelie
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
OCF deployment of Adelie -> A duct-tape-and-glue style update system.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
system-updatedeploymentupdategluetape
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