Nitish Garg
Lead Tech at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolNitish Garg is a Lead Tech with a decade of software engineering experience, currently driving technical work at D. E. Shaw India after a stint at Google. An IIT Guwahati computer science graduate, he specializes in Python-driven systems, full-stack MVC web apps, recommendation engines and automation across domains including finance, astrophysics, chemistry and music. He has a strong applied data-science streak—building search, fuzzy-matching and ranking systems in production and contributing to OpenChemistry via Google Summer of Code. Nitish combines hands-on backend engineering with experience leading teams and coordinating placements and internships during his time at IIT-Guwahati. He publishes projects and demos on his personal site and GitHub, signaling a pragmatic open-source mindset alongside enterprise delivery. A less obvious strength is his cross-domain curiosity: he repeatedly translates academic insights (e.g., chemistry log parsing) into production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiSenior Secondary (CBSE), Science (PCM), Senior Secondary (CBSE), Science (PCM) at Darbari Lal DAV Model SchoolSecondary (CBSE), Secondary (CBSE) at Aryaman Vikram Birla Institute of Learning
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Github Skills (49)
fourier-transform10
blackhole10
spectral9
astrophysics8
astronomy8
nonlinear7
time-series7
computational-chemistry7
octave7
matlab7
chemistry7
python7
html6
data-analysis6
fixed6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nitish6174/utilities
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
nitish6174/video-search-engine
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:32 commits in 8 days
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