Niki Gitinabard
Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiki Gitinabard is a software engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade machine learning with production software delivery, currently at Google. A Ph.D. candidate at NC State, she specializes in educational data mining—building social-graph based features and sequence/text models to predict student performance and evaluate teamwork from GitHub activity. She has shipped end-to-end web platforms and matching algorithms as Chief Scientist at Allobee, integrating OpenAI and payment automation on Google Cloud and Heroku. Her background spans large-scale distributed systems, ad-serving platforms, and graph analytics from internships at MaxPoint and EPFL to production services maintaining millions of mobile clients. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, she combines deep experimentation with pragmatic product thinking to turn educational insights into actionable tooling. Based in Raleigh, she brings a rare blend of academic rigor and hands-on systems experience to ML-driven education and collaboration tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Tehran
English
Stackoverflow
379reputation
26kreached
15answers
4questions
Github Skills (30)
dependency-analysis8
code-security7
source-code-analysis7
static-analyzer7
code-coverage6
fltk6
database6
coveragepy6
igraph6
code-analysis6
python6
cairo6
unit-testing6
static-analysis6
pycairo6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ArgLab/PiazzaDataAnalysisTool
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Repo for Piazza Data.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 months
nikign/MeetMe
Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:97 commits in 10 months
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