Summary
Nitin Dhar is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling product teams and full‑stack systems, now serving as Director of Engineering at Carta. He has a strong track record at high-growth fintech and consumer startups—leading the Cash Offer and first Purchase experience at Better.com, growing an engineering org from zero to 20+ engineers, and co‑founding Aura to ship an AR iOS app. Comfortable across React, AWS, and PostgreSQL, he blends hands‑on technical depth with people leadership, performance management, and successful restructures. A New York–based MS computer science graduate with a BS in neurobiology, he brings an uncommon mix of technical rigor and product empathy that helps teams deliver software that truly serves customers and staff.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Computer Science, M.S Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
B.S Neurobiology, B.S Neurobiology at Stony Brook University