Nitin Motgi is an entrepreneurial technology leader and advisor with 14 years of experience building data analytics and AI products that drove multimillion-dollar growth at startups and giants like Cask (acquired by Google), Google, DataRobot, Yahoo, and FedEx Services. As a founder and former VP of Product, he combines hands-on engineering—contributing UI enhancements to the open-source CDAP project—with strategic product, GTM, and organizational leadership. He has a proven track record delivering real-time personalization and content-optimization platforms at massive scale, turning engineering investments into measurable engagement and revenue uplift. Based in Palo Alto, he currently advises startups and co-founded a stealth company while remaining active in entrepreneurial networks like TiE Bangalore. Known for building high-performance teams, he pairs technical depth with a customer-first approach to data-driven product roadmaps. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge open-source engineering contributions with enterprise productization and go-to-market execution.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Karnatak University
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Central Florida
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 1823 commits, 175 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nitin primarily contributed to the CDAP UI, introducing new widgets and functionalities to the dashboard. They modified the UI's codebase, making changes to the templates, controllers, and services. The user also added adapter configurations and fixed issues related to browser cookies, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and front-end functionality. Furthermore, they added and configured various dashboards to better provide system metrics.
Examples on how-to run existing Spark applications in CDAP.
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes in 1 day
scalacdapspark-applicationssparkcdap-application
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