Nikhil Makaram
Senior AI Engineer at BrightAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Makaram is a Senior AI Engineer with nine years of experience translating bioengineering rigor into production-grade machine learning systems across health tech and e-commerce. He has driven R&D for sleep-health sensing at Sleep Number—contributing to the Climate 360 product and publishing IP—and built large-scale fraud detection pipelines at Clarivate that processed 100k+ listings daily. Comfortable moving models from research to streaming production, he combines statistical modeling, Spark/Scala productionization, and sensor signal understanding to solve real-world problems. His early career in biomedical research and medical device engineering gives him uncommon fluency in regulated, cross-disciplinary environments where experimental results must become robust products. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he focuses on using AI to create measurable improvements in people’s lives while leading teams to deliver high-impact, scientifically grounded solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, B.S., Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyData Science Immersive, Data Science, Data Science Immersive, Data Science at GalvanizeMaster of Science (M.S.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityGithub contributions (5)
nikasso/movie2vec
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
nikasso/regression-case-study
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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