Salil Nadkarni
Software Engineer at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalil Nadkarni is a software engineer with eight years of experience building developer-facing products at the intersection of AI, education, and creativity. He has shipped AI-powered code review and migration tooling across startups and scale-ups, most recently contributing to Cursor after Graphite’s acquisition, and previously improving Quip and Canvas at Slack. His background includes ML research on OCR and internships at Snorkel AI and Google, reflecting a strong applied-ML foundation alongside product-focused engineering. Based in New York and educated at the University of Michigan, he blends hands-on systems work with an eye for delightful developer experiences—and a palpable enthusiasm for making tools that are both useful and fun.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringDual Enrolled Student, Dual Enrolled Student at Schoolcraft College
English, German
Github Skills (8)
kappa5
react2
wikipedia2
javascript2
css2
graph1
chrome1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
salnad/step
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Starter projects / training done for Virtual Step Internship.
Contributions:35 PRs, 64 pushes, 19 branches in 2 months
caffe2internshiptrainingpaddlemulticlass-classification
salnad/salnad-website
Nov 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years
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