Nikunj Yadav
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNikunj Yadav is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 12 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and developer platforms across companies like Facebook, Uber, Mixpanel, Brex, HeyGen and xAI. He combines hands-on systems engineering—authoring a widely used fast data-transfer library at Facebook and contributing throttling/resource-control enhancements to facebook/wdt—with product and team leadership roles scaling engineering organizations and developer productivity. At Brex he launched core streaming primitives and language ecosystems (Kotlin and Go) and later led developer productivity efforts; at HeyGen he headed product engineering for AI-driven media products. Now at xAI he’s focused on AI agents, blending his deep distributed-systems background with emerging AI product needs. He’s known for pragmatic engineering: building robust infrastructure (S3 proxy, eventing, CDC) that reduces operational pain while enabling rapid feature delivery. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs research roots in high-performance computing with a track record of shipping production-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
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Github Skills (15)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
network-programming10
concurrency8
api-design8
java6
google-cloud-messaging6
go6
channel6
linux6
io6
google-app-engine6
synchronization6
antlr6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/wdt
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 43 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikunj's commits primarily focused on enhancing the throttling mechanism within the Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) library. Their work involved adding and refining throttling features, including configuring average and peak transfer rates, burst limits, and peak log intervals. They made bug fixes related to the throttler and implemented configuration options, demonstrating a focus on performance optimization and control over data transfer rates. The user also contributed to the WDT's service interface and added resource controller to manage it.
command-line-toolspeedwarpaimingpaths
nikunjy/go
May 2020 - Apr 2021
A guide to golang monorepo
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
golangmonorepo
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