# Nikhil Narayen

> Software Engineer at Baseten

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Baseten
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

### Software Engineer @ Flipturn
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ Chronosphere
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Building the best observability platform for metrics and distributed traces

### Software Engineer @ Two Sigma IQ
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Building a better platform for insurance underwriters to rate, quote, and bind in commercial lines. Solutions include enterprise grade SaaS API deployed to AWS, insurance product DSL and compiler, and workflow management.

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped implement Airbnb’s remarketing advertising presence on Facebook, drove 2M+ bookings annually at efficiency

### Application Developer @ Cal Blueprint
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
A student run organization that provides pro bono application development for local non-profits in the Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pinterest
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with monetization team to improve ads relevance and ranking logic

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Menlo Park, CA
Worked with Parse (mobile backend as a service) to implement a push notification A/B testing framework

### Consultant @ The Berkeley Group
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA
A student run organization that provides pro bono consulting for local non-profits in the Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA
Developed infrastructure to support a new experimental video ad format

### Research Intern @ Stanford University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
∙ Worked in the MobiSocial lab; developed web apps for a peer-to-peer social network
∙ Languages: front-end built in HTML5 and jQuery mobile UI, back-end with Javascript and PHP

### Research Intern @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Cruz, CA
∙ Worked in Biomedical Engineering Department under Professor Richard Green to sequence bacterial genomes
∙ Built a GUI in Java’s Swing Library to encapsulate functionality from mentor’s command line programs
∙ Developed a final DNA assembler in Java implementing various graph traversal algorithms; Python and Bash scripting

### Web Development Intern @ The Climate Healers
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Sunnyvale, CA
• Worked with CEO Sailesh Rao to design company website; included ViVu technology for video conferencing
• Languages: front-end built with HTML and CSS, back-end used PHP and MySQL to interact with user database


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### The Harker School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23