# Ravi Nanavati

> Passionate about safer and more expressive programming tools

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ravinanavati

A senior software engineer who thrives at the boundary between research and industry. Passionate about making, sharing and using safe and expressive programming tools. In-depth experience with functional programming, hardware design and financial modeling.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ MatX
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Quantitative Developer @ Standard Chartered Bank
Jan 2010 – Jan 2017

### Lead Compiler Architect @ Bluespec, Inc
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009
Core member of the initial Bluespec technical team, working on Bluespec SystemVerilog a Haskell-based high-level hardware-synthesis solution. Promoted from Senior Engineer to Lead Compiler Architect.

### Senior Associate @ DiamondCluster International
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Technical architect specializing in mobile applications. Responsibilities included researching and making recommendations about emerging technologies, defining and analyzing technical and IT architectures, and developing application prototypes.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ MIT
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
Teaching Assistant for 6.001 (Introductory Computer Science), 6.823 (Computer System Architecture - graduate course), and 6.821 (Programming Languages - graduate course).


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10