Vidhant Maini
Senior Software Engineer at YouTube
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVidhant Maini is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable systems at major tech companies, currently contributing to YouTube after earlier roles at Microsoft and stints as a startup co-founder. He combines deep product-facing engineering—progressing from Software Engineer II to Senior SWE at YouTube—with research roots in NLP and theoretical CS from internships at IIT Bombay and IIITDM. A Cornell MEng in Computer Science and a recent Stanford LEAD participant in organizational leadership, he bridges hands-on technical delivery with growing leadership and product fluency. Based in Ithaca but working across San Bruno, he favors ambitious, user-impacting work (aptly summed up by his GitHub motto “Expand the universe!”), and brings an entrepreneur’s perspective to large-scale platform problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologyClass 12, PCM + Computers, Class 12, PCM + Computers at St. Joseph's Academy, DehradunClass 10, PCM + Computers, Class 10, PCM + Computers at Brightlands School, DehradunStanford LEAD, Organizational Leadership, Stanford LEAD, Organizational Leadership at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Cornell University
Hindi, English
Github Skills (15)
recommender7
recommender-system5
python5
machine-learning4
visualization4
recommendation-system4
matplotlib4
tensorflow4
vega4
vega-lite3
altair3
data-visualization3
declarative3
allocation3
automation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vidhant/dyslexia
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:62 PRs, 60 pushes, 15 branches in 10 days
dyslexiaappear
vidhant/Centaur1
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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