Nitin Kumar
Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNitin Kumar is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years in tech and 6+ years focused on ML and data-driven products, currently applying ML engineering at TikTok while also holding a senior data science role at Walgreens. He has a strong track record shipping production systems at scale—from graph analytics on telecom networks and social media brand-perception pipelines to an AWS-backed data ingestion platform that cut ingestion time from weeks to minutes. Comfortable across the stack, he blends software engineering, big data (Spark/Hadoop) and ML to turn research-grade models into operational services. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and impactful contributions at Meta, where he worked as an ML generalist, highlighting both product-facing and infrastructure-first experience. Pragmatic and efficiency-minded, he seeks roles that offer steep learning curves and measurable user impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science And Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science And Engineering at Tezpur UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
bots8
facebook7
google-assistant7
natural-language-processing7
dialogue-systems7
voice7
conversations7
bot-framework7
nlp7
angular6
chatbot6
nodejs6
conversational-ai6
watson6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NitinKumar94/Installing-Apache-Tez
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Installing Apache Tez on a 1-node Hadoop Cluster
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
installinghadoop-clusterapachebig-datatez
NitinKumar94/Cognitive-Engine
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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