Summary
Shitian Ni is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend, ML, and search systems across startups and large tech companies, currently focused on advertising at Indeed in Chiyoda, Japan. He combines strong algorithmic foundations (TopCoder blue rank, ACM-ICPC competitor) with practical production skills in Go, Python, GCP, Kubernetes and Terraform, having shipped microservices, recommendation backends, and A/B tests at Mercari. His work spans ML research and products—from quantum annealing research and ML annotation tooling to LLM/GPT experiments at EXPLAZA—demonstrating an ability to move between research prototypes and production-grade systems. An active community contributor and reviewer on Topcoder and author of iOS and Chrome apps, he pairs competitive programming pedigree with hands-on product engineering. Notably, he has experience translating deep learning courseware for NVIDIA and building algorithmic pipelines in Dockerized environments, reflecting both teaching aptitude and DevOps fluency.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, ENGINEERING at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese, English, Chinese