Hello World! I’m Nilay.

I’m a software engineer at Google where I work on Procella, a peta-scale, distributed, columnar SQL query engine. Before this, I received my Master’s in Computer Science from UMass Amherst where I spent my time exploring deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and information retrieval. While in the pioneer valley, I also enjoyed having many discussions on systems, politics, society, the human experience, and design!

Before that, I worked for Media.net as a software engineer on their contextual advertising programmatic bidding offering. This was right after I received my Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from BITS-Pilani where I led the BITS Firefox Community, participated in the Boot2Gecko project, interned at Flipkart and Qubole, competed in many programming contests, built some bots, organized and wrote software for a marathon, delivered talks, and pwned n00bs in video games , among many other things!

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