Vipul Naik
Data Scientist And Software Engineer
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVipul Naik is a data scientist and software engineer with 12 years of experience building production machine learning and data engineering systems, rooted in a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago. As an early member and long-time engineer of LiftIgniter, he helped scale a real-time recommendation product through acquisition and continues to work on recommendations, site performance, and metrics at The Arena Group in a part-time capacity. He has bridged startups and biotech as a head of data science, practicing pragmatic trade-offs between research rigor and product priorities. Comfortable across math, infrastructure, and applied ML, he favors measurable improvements (Core Web Vitals, monitoring, ads data pipelines) over academic novelty. Outside day-to-day work he pursues diverse personal projects documented on his website, reflecting a blend of deep technical expertise and independent curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Delhi Public School NoidaBachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Chennai Mathematical InstitutePh. D., Mathematics, Ph. D., Mathematics at University of Chicago
Hindi, English, Korean
Stackoverflow
155reputation
375reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (39)
lighthouse10
audit10
vulcan10
performance-analysis10
auditing10
developer-tools10
javascript9
monitoring9
advertising9
nodejs9
web-traffic8
database8
traffic8
php8
forum8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vipulnaik/dietwatch
Apr 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
themaven-net/lighthouse
Jul 2021 - May 2023
Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
reporterauditperformance-metricslighthousesplunk
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