# Neha Nishikant

> SWE @ Scale AI | CS @ CMU

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Scale AI
Jan 2024 – Present
Software Engineer building platforms to train generative AI

### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
I’m an engineer for a large healthcare client. I aggregate large amounts of data and tease out meaningful insights. Using PySpark and typescript, I build impactful tools to enable millions to get quicker and better access to care.

### Software Engineer and ML Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
I created a new model that predicted meeting reschedule probability to enable better meeting times for Microsoft’s intelligent scheduler.

### Software Engineer and ML Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
I added functionality to Microsoft’s intelligent scheduler by using NLP models to detect meeting attendees and time utterances to automate meeting modifications and communication.

### 15-151 Teaching Assistant at CMU @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh
In the Fall (2019, 2020), I am a TA for 15151, CMU's discrete math class for computer science and math majors. As a TA I lead a recitation of 25 students that meets twice a week, create and teach review sessions, hold office hours, and grade student work.

### Researcher @ CMU MultiComp Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsbugh, PA
Over the summer of 2019, I implemented neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and Google’s machine learning transformer model based on the 2017 paper "Attention Is You Need". I was funded by Carnegie Mellon's SURF research grant.

### Intern @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Dayton, New Jersey
I worked in a Bloomberg's data center where I reduced manual human interaction with the physical machines through automated python scripts and Systems Reliability Engineers (SRE) runbook automation


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neha-nishikant

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Last updated: 2026-04-05