Summary
Nikita Jain is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, currently working on TPU infrastructure for GCP ML Compute at Google. Their background spans GCP global capacity planning, monitoring and uptime services, and earlier roles in cybersecurity and internal platform tooling at Target, reflecting a strong blend of reliability, security, and systems engineering. They started with hands-on research in high-performance computing and neuroscience labs, giving them unusual experience with GPU-accelerated simulation and experimental data processing. Comfortable in both product and incident-driven environments, Nikita moves between low-level performance tuning and higher-level capacity strategy. Based in New York but shaped by education at UIUC and formative time at IIIT Allahabad, they bring an international academic foundation to production-grade cloud systems. Colleagues would note their curiosity for learning beyond the classroom and a pattern of taking technical ownership across diverse domains.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign