Nishi Kaza
Co-Founder & CTO at Marlo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishi Kaza is a technical product leader and Co-Founder & CTO with eight years of experience building developer-facing and consumer products at the intersection of EECS and business. A UC Berkeley-trained engineer and business grad, she has led ML fine-tuning and RLHF pipelines at Scale AI and designed global distribution and monetization systems for Apple Music’s DJ ecosystem. Nishi combines hands-on front-end engineering—contributing to Microsoft’s Fluent UI, notably rewriting a key tsx-editor component with React hooks and TypeScript—with strategic product management for foundation models and enterprise customers. Now based in San Francisco, she is channeling that crossover expertise into intelligence tools for elite talent agencies, blending product rigor, engineering craftsmanship, and a knack for improving developer ergonomics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringBachelor's degree Business Administration, Bachelor's degree Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
react10
monaco-editor10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
office-ui-fabric-react9
javascript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 19 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nishi primarily worked on the `tsx-editor` component, a key element within the Fluent UI web repository, implementing and refining its functionality. Their contributions involved rewriting the editor using React hooks, updating dependencies, and addressing issues related to multiple instance management. They also integrated TypeScript support and fetched Fabric typings for IntelliSense, improving the development experience.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
nishikaza/office-ui-fabric-react
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
React components for building Microsoft web experiences.
Contributions:57 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
reactexperiencesreact-componentsmicrosoftreactjs
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