# Demitri Nava

> Founding Engineer - AI x Drug Discovery - We’re hiring!

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/demitri

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Boltz
Jan 2025 – Present

### Engineering Manager @ Retool
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Google Cloud Databases

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
Lead on the dispatch team, focusing on systems and algorithms improving efficiency for driver/passenger matches and walking

### Software Engineer @ Five Rings Capital, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### Independent Contractor @ Actiview, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed a RESTful API using Nodejs for CRUD endpoints, media content encryption, and media content downloading.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Worked on solutions to the set-similarity join problem using Jaccard similarity. Developed a partitioning algorithm that significantly improved precision without sacrificing performance. Additionally, provided methods of extending the algorithm to solve for Jaccard containment.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Lyft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Worked on the Experimentation team which builds a python framework for company-wide client-side and server A/B testing.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Looker
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, CA
Worked on a Sinatra stack that uses a YAML modeling layer to query analytics databases.

### Co-founder @ pushforpizza.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Developing the easiest way to order pizza from your favorite local restaurants. Later acquired by Eaze

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Front-end developing on a NodeJS stack using ReactJS. Also developed a functional testing suite for the Yahoo! digital magazine using ProtractorJS


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/demitri-nava-4b5a5564

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Source: https://flows.cv/demitri
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/demitri/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05