Nikhil Thorat
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Thorat is a software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing at the intersection of data visualization and machine learning. He co-created TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data at Google, led the Google Image Search UI team, and contributed visualization improvements to TensorBoard’s graph visualizer. As a founder-turned-engineering leader, he helped build Lilac AI (acquired by Databricks) and later worked on AI quality at Databricks before joining Anthropic. He blends research and product fluency—co-authoring work on multilingual NMT and SmoothGrad—while shipping practical front-end and tooling enhancements for large ML systems. Based in Boston, he’s comfortable moving between prototyping research ideas and scaling production ML UIs.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Math, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Math at University of Massachusetts AmherstWPI
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
javascript10
visualization10
visualizations10
tensorflow9
polymer8
tensorflowjs6
neural-network6
ajax6
urlencode6
deep-learning6
vector-multiplication6
facebook6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/tensorboard
May 2016 - Jun 2016
TensorFlow's Visualization Toolkit
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 comments, 1 issue in 19 days
Contributions summary:Nikhil focused on improving the visualization aspects of the TensorFlow TensorBoard project. They implemented UI enhancements such as fading out nodes and edges lacking stats in the graph visualizer. Their work included adding a color legend and modifying CSS for visual clarity. The user also updated the graph loader to improve performance related to metadata changes and integrated new features to display run metadata.
machine-learningtensorflowvisualization
PAIR-code/deeplearnjs-legacy-loader
Mar 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years 3 months
model-loaderjavascriptdeep-neural-networkstensorflowtensorflow-model
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