Shreyash Nigam
Founder, CEO at Chonkie
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShreyash Nigam is a founder and former Google software engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building production systems, machine learning models, and developer tooling. A University of Washington computer science junior (with a mathematics minor), he has moved between research—helping create the Tisane DSL for statistical modeling—and industry roles at HBO, Uber, and Google where he automated critical infrastructure and content-verification pipelines. As CEO of Chonkie in San Francisco, he combines product instincts with deep engineering skills across backend services, ML, and automation. Notably, his background includes leading course development and auto-grading at UW and delivering measurable accuracy gains in peptide prediction models, reflecting a rare mix of teaching, research, and scalable engineering.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of WashingtonCBSE Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science English, CBSE Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science English at Step By Step World School
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Github Skills (29)
chunking10
retrieval10
semantic-segmentation10
text-processing10
vector-search9
python9
ai9
nlp9
javafx8
latex8
etl8
statsmodels8
academia8
dsl8
experimental-design7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shreyashnigam/CODEC-public
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
shreyashnigam/uwnet
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 pushes in 23 days
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