Nikhil Mittu
Software Engineer at Jane Street
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Mittu is a software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building tooling and infrastructure, currently working at Jane Street after internships at Meta, Google, Stripe, and multiple NASA roles. He studies Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Maryland and has a long-standing interest in programming languages, compilers, and typecheckers—contributing to large-scale engineering efforts like Meta’s Hack typechecker. His background includes building scalable APIs and build tooling for GMSEC that handled millions of messages, plus creating CI/CD pipelines and modular Gradle plugins at NASA. Beyond internships, he’s organized technical events (Bitcamp, Technica) and taught undergraduate CS courses, showing a mix of technical depth and community leadership. Practical, curious, and self-taught from an early age, he combines low-level systems experience with production-grade software engineering at major tech firms.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Montgomery CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Math, Minor: Physics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Math, Minor: Physics at University of MarylandHigh School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Sherwood High School
Github Skills (66)
hacklang10
virtual-machine10
hhvm10
php10
formatter9
command-line-parser9
parser9
insert9
argument-parsing9
rum9
completions9
option-parser9
argv9
silent9
rust8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DEV-learn-co-curriculum/ruby-instance-variables-lab
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:20 PRs in 2 years 4 months
DEV-learn-co-curriculum/ruby-intro-to-oo
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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