Nishan Subedi
Director Of Engineering, Discovery at Whatnot
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNishan Subedi is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years building and scaling machine learning-driven search, ranking, personalization, and marketplace systems across e-commerce and consumer platforms. Currently Director of Engineering, Discovery at Whatnot after leading Core Marketplace ML and AI at DoorDash, he has repeatedly translated research-grade ML into production features that move substantial business metrics. His background includes senior algorithm and search roles at Overstock and Etsy, where he led initiatives that generated hundreds of millions in incremental GMS and built real-time inference and featurization pipelines. Comfortable at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and experimentation, he combines hands-on engineering (with roots in deployment automation and concurrency from open-source work on projects like Deployinator) with strategic leadership. Collected startup experience as a CTO/co‑founder and a dual training in engineering and physics/computer science gives him a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to solving discovery and ranking problems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Physics w/ Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Physics w/ Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy at Vassar CollegeBachelors in Engineering, Bachelors in Engineering at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (8)
celluloid10
build-process10
deployment-automation10
concurrency10
ruby10
error-handling9
git9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
etsy/deployinator
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Deployinate!
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nishan contributed to the core functionality of the Deployinator project by modifying version helper functions and git-related utilities, which indicates a focus on deployment automation and build processes. They also introduced a concurrency helper with the Celluloid gem, demonstrating an interest in parallel processing within the deployment framework. Furthermore, the user made changes to the logging and error handling mechanisms, suggesting a commitment to the project's robustness and operability.
kubernetesdocker
nishansubedi/nishansubedi.github.com
Jan 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 7 years 6 months
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