Nikita Jayakar
Cloud Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure at New York Life Insurance Company
United States
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Top SchoolNikita Jayakar is a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of experience building and operationalizing resilient infrastructure and full-stack services, currently driving SRE initiatives at New York Life. With a strong MS in Computer and Information Sciences from NYU and a top-5% BE in Computer Engineering, he bridges machine learning, data pipelines, and web development—having implemented SVM and deep learning models for production text classification and built Python tooling to document XML-based annuity transactions. He has a proven track record of shipping features that measurably impacted business outcomes (helping increase Retail Annuities sales by 10%) and mentoring interns while contributing to both development and operational excellence. Comfortable from automation testing with Robot Framework to Keras/TensorFlow model work, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to reducing friction between data science and production systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.614 / 4, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.614 / 4 at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.83 / 10 (top 5%), Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.83 / 10 (top 5%) at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (23)
creative-commons8
cpp8
python8
java8
javascript7
questions-and-answers7
mining4
binder4
orange4
tern4
human-readable3
readable3
docker2
composition2
json2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikki2606/Leetcode-prep
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:250 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
nikki2606/MyResume
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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