Nisarg Kothari
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNisarg Kothari is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 12 years of experience building video content representation and analysis systems at Google. He has progressed from individual contributor roles in recommendation and video analysis to leading and managing teams focused on next-generation video representations and infrastructure. His work spans research-infused engineering—drawing on an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon—and large-scale production deployment, including contributing inference tooling to the well-known YouTube-8M dataset. Nisarg combines deep systems and ML engineering judgment with hands-on contributions to foundational code and licensing hygiene, reflecting attention to both technical and operational detail. He’s comfortable bridging robotics research roots with product-grade video ML, routinely translating academic ideas into scalable Google production systems. Based in Mountain View, he brings a long track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and pragmatic delivery in high-impact video platforms.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
tensorflow10
python10
back-end-development10
ml-deployment9
machine-learning9
continuous-deployment9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/youtube-8m
Nov 2016 - Sep 2019
Starter code for working with the YouTube-8M dataset.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 92 PRs, 150 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nisarg primarily contributed to the codebase by adding license information and headers to multiple files. Additionally, they introduced an "inference.py" binary, demonstrating an understanding of model deployment and prediction generation. The user's changes also included modifications to existing files to incorporate the license information and the addition of a new binary. These activities suggest the user was responsible for the foundational elements of the project.
deep-learningdatasetmachine-learningyoutubeyoutube-8m
surisdi/youtube-8m
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:45 commits in 28 days
deep-learningdatasetmachine-learningyoutubeyoutube-8m
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