Nikhil Sarda
Machine Learning Engineer at SuperDial
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikhil Sarda is a Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building large-scale, high-impact systems across Google and startups. He led development of consumer-facing apps powered by large language models and built SmartChoices, a contextual bandits and RL decisioning system deployed across Google products like YouTube CDN, ML compilers, Commerce, Workspace, and ads. His background spans cloud telemetry and IAM at Google Cloud, full-stack web work at Mattermark, and academic research in software systems from Columbia University. Comfortable bridging research and production, he repeatedly ships ML-driven infrastructure that moves from prototype to widespread deployment. Now at SuperDial, he continues to focus on scalable ML systems with practical product impact. A mathematically grounded engineer (IIT Kharagpur; MS Columbia), he blends rigorous modeling with pragmatic engineering to solve real-world decision problems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science Mathematics and Computing, Master of Science Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurSt. James School
Github Skills (25)
database9
go8
consensus8
key-value8
bower7
kubernetes7
google-app-engine7
etcd7
distributed-systems7
raft7
csg7
distributed-database6
key-value-store6
openscad6
jvm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
diffoperator/Sypy
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:35 commits in 24 days
sarda-nikhil/sarda-nikhil.github.io
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.