Nilay Pochhi
Senior Software Engineer at Rippling
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNilay Pochhi is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building real-time query processing and backend infrastructure at Rippling, blending applied research sensibilities from stints at Microsoft Research and academic training at UCLA and IIT Kharagpur. He has practical ML and graphics experience from a Snap mesh-construction internship and contributes to performance-sensitive open-source projects like SymEngine, where he improved symbolic math edge cases and matrix symbol handling. Comfortable across backend systems, computer vision, and graphics, Nilay bridges research and production to deliver robust, scalable pipelines. Based in San Francisco, he’s driven by solving low-level correctness and performance problems that unlock higher-level ML and graphics functionality.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
AISSE Senior Secondary (10th Standard), AISSE Senior Secondary (10th Standard) at Narayana VidyalayamHSC Higher Secondary, HSC Higher Secondary at Sri. Shivaji Science College, Congressnagar,NagpurUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Marathi, English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
mathematics10
computer-algebra10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
math10
computer-algebra-system10
testing9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
symengine/symengine
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
SymEngine is a fast symbolic manipulation library, written in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Nilay's contributions focused on enhancing the SymEngine library's functionality. They addressed inconsistencies related to the `pow` function, specifically handling edge cases with exponents of infinity. The user added the `Abs` function to the `as_real_imag` function, improving the library's capabilities. Furthermore, they integrated the `free_symbols` function for matrix operations, providing functionality for identifying free symbols within matrix expressions and fixed an issue related to travis errors.
manipulationmathmanipulation-librarycpptheorem-proving
npochhi/networkx.rb
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
A Ruby implementation of Python's well known Graph library "networkx"
Contributions:43 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
networkxpythongraph-libraryrubygraph
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