# Suren Nihalani

> A believer looking for other believers

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/suren

Have you noticed how much work it is to motivate people? You don't have to do that with me. I possess intrinsic motivation for other people's problems. I crave to build a S&P1 company. 

Please don't reach out to me for a job. If you want a referral, use my social referral link: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox?lever-via=z1v2sDqN3F&lever-social=job_site

If you want to talk, I am always down to grab coffee in person on sundays at 2 pm PST in San Mateo, CA

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2023 – Present | Foster City, California, United States

### Software Development Manager @ GovTron
Jan 2022 – Present | San Mateo County, California, United States
– coding various things for government contracts
– wrote a cron job to notify us about useful opportunities

### Staff Software Engineer @ Opendoor
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
● On the MLOps team, I brought down the time of launching a market from 3 weeks to 1.5 weeks through automation. This helped us get from 3 new markets per quarter to 7 new markets per quarter (we want to be available in every US city). My changes included:
○ Built Airflow DAGs that created PRs so developers no longer struggled with installing machine learning libraries
○ Optimized dependency version bumping time from 30 minutes -> 5 minutes
○ Configuration deployment no longer causes existing dag runs to miss their SLAs

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Tech lead for company’s data infra storage abstraction layer migration from HDFS path layer to tables (21k engineering hours worth of work spanning over three quarters)
● Led two engineers to deliver various customer asks
● Planned & executed on migration to Hadoop 2.10 for our team’s products

### Software Engineer @ Quora
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
● Drove and launched a commit queue, a CI module, that improves deployment speed
● Built micro services support (like internal DNS) and planned the move to containers
● Led the 64bit python migration to increase developer velocity
● Increased reliability of our browser based test infra to lower spuriousness
● Evaluated, triaged and rewarded bug reports for the security bug bounty program
● Automated certificate generation, renewal and deployment for all https needs

### Software Engineering Intern @ Quora
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Worked on a netflow analyzer tool (Nfsen)

### Production Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park
worked on the data infrastructure team (HDFS)

### System Software Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Santa Clara, California
Worked on GPU's kernel mode device display driver module.
Brought down boot time by 1.5 ms.
Implemented features in the testing system.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Designed and implemented a utility, in Java, that edits previously annotated parameters of animation files using the Python API of an open sourced 3D computer graphics creator called 'Blender'.


## Education
### Master's of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23