Cornell University

Cornell University Graduate School

Northwest High School

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Leading Release Engineering at Benchling, owning the software lifecycle, CI/CD infrastructure, and release of our quarterly Validated Cloud product for enterprises.

Benchling is a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development.

Engineering Leader on the University Recruiting committee (intern program, new grad program) at Benchling.

Benchling

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager of the Core Delivery and Partner Platform teams, working to commercialize autonomous deliveries using Nuro's robotics technology. Managing two full-stack, product-focused, and highly cross-functional teams.

The Core Delivery team is responsible for end-to-end individual deliveries and the core backend infrastructure and data (including orders, vehicle assignments, and instructions) that support them, in addition to all of the consumer-facing user interfaces (on-robot consumer app, mobile web consumer app) for our delivery service. 

The Partner Platform team is responsible for building the technology for our partners to successfully integrate their order fulfillment operations with Nuro, including third-party APIs and tools.

In November 2022, we successfully launched the very first autonomous deliveries with FedEx and Uber Eats, working across many engineering teams and collaborating both internally with our strategy teams and externally with our partners' teams.

Nuro

Faculty In-Residence (on campus in Greensboro) in the Computer Science Department.
Creating and running a new course (130 students): COMP163 Intro to Computer Programming, in Python.
– Top-ranked HBCU (historically black college) and R2 Research University.
– Managing a course staff of teaching assistants.
– Partnering with Google’s recruiting and hiring teams to build university relationships and support students through the application process.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Visiting Professor, Computer Science

YouTube - Channels & Playlists Infrastructure.
Engineering Lead for the 2021 YouTube Creators & Artists Survey: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/104573926
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/make-youtube-more-inclusive-platform/

Working on backend services and API development, in C++ and Python, to enable launches and scaling of various YouTube features and products that reach billions of users around the world. Architecting how YouTube stores and serves channels and playlists-related metadata. Enabling low latency, high QPS systems, with an emphasis on long-term architecture, privacy & security, and maintainable/scalable code.

Internal Career Coach: September 2020 – Present
Intern Manager: Summer 2018 – 2020

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer on our flagship iOS app (writing native code in Swift!), with focuses on mobile infrastructure, multi-app features, and front-end engineering.

I built the new (released Summer 2017) video upload/download capabilities for the iOS app. Key components include: infrastructure-level API for the iOS client, video/file processing state management, database storage of metadata, chunked uploads and downloads for large files using AWS.
---http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-native-video-2017-8

Contributed key features to the Rocket Data project before its open-sourcing to the development community.
---http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/07/21/linkedin-open-sources-a-speedy-cache-touted-as-better-than-apples/

Built a novel front-end mobile feature to gain user input and feedback about our app (which was later used for other LinkedIn iOS apps as well).  Read about the design, architecture, and member benefits in my engineering blog post:
---https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/06/linkedin-listens--a-better-way-to-prompt-for-member-feedback

Nitesh Donti