Nikki Vinayan
Senior Software Engineer, Search at GIPHY
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNikki Vinayan is a senior software engineer and search specialist with 12 years of experience building massively scalable search and recommendation systems, most recently leading search engineering at GIPHY and now at Fora Travel in New York. She combines production ML, NLP and computer vision signals to improve CTR and ranking metrics, and has shipped features like a real-time trending feed and user search while embedding ML into moderation workflows. At Jet she architected end-to-end search solutions, query expansion libraries, and robust experimentation and deployment pipelines that materially improved search performance during high-traffic events. Her background in distributed systems and programming languages (MS, University of Melbourne) and a professional AI program from Stanford underpin a pragmatic approach to moving research into production. Colleagues know her for blending hands-on coding with on-call reliability and mentoring, and for turning prototype ML moderation systems into tools used by content teams.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and communication engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and communication engineering at TKM College of Engineering , KollamProfessional Program, Artificial Intelligence, Professional Program, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University School of EngineeringThe University of MelbourneCBSE, CBSE at Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, Poochatty
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
oid6
x509certificates6
java6
jet3
python2
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azure1
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nomad1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nikvi/spreadSheets
Jul 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
nikvi/nikvi.old
Oct 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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