Nimesh Chakravarthi

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of multiple startups in tech.
  • Led AI infrastructure development at LinkedIn.
  • Expert in engineering management and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in AI and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

People ManagementEngineering ManagementArtificial Intelligence

Other Skills

PythonArchitectural DesignJavaData StructuresMachine LearningOOPScalaCSQLMavenMapReduceHadoopLinuxRuby on RailsGit

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Experience

10 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Struct

Co-Founder

May 2025Present · 1 yr · San Francisco, CA · On-site

Bramble

Co-Founder

Jun 2024May 2025 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Technical founder at Bramble, a highly-efficient tech-forward real estate brokerage that offers the most competitive commission rebate on the market.

Stealth startup

Co-Founder

Sep 2023Jun 2024 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Linkedin

6 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2023Sep 2023 · 6 mos

  • Leading the LinkedIn Messenger experience team.
People ManagementEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Jun 2020Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Leading the Messenger Recipient team, a full-stack team of 12 engineers within the LinkedIn Messenger org, responsible for serving a reliable and performant experience that enables members to follow up on conversations that matter to them.
  • Developed the team's strategy to tackle its product and technology goals.
  • Led the development of the Messenger inbox synchronization algorithm across the iOS, Android, and web applications.
  • Led efforts to measure, operationalize, and improve the reliability of the Messenger experience.
  • Led the cross-org development of foundational AI infrastructure that enables training, deploying, and serving models to power relevance in Messenger.
  • Led the release of foundational Messenger features.
  • Hired and grew talent, including senior ICs. Mentored new and transitioning managers in the Messenger org.
  • Managing the Messenger Web application, owning its operations and championing improvements to performance, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
  • Developed processes to scale operations, improve onboarding, and enable team cohesion for the Messenger org.

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Technical lead for the Messaging Engagement team and the Messenger Product Backend team.
  • Led development of critical functionality as part of the migration to a re-architected backend platform powering Messenger.
  • Led the development of a unified solution for new LinkedIn Messenger entry-points, backed by a centralized system for message send permissions.
  • Guided initiatives within and external to the team, ensuring the right architecture through design and code reviews.
  • Mentored engineers to grow the team's talent.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Designed and built a new platform to support video sharing and unify creation of all user-generated content at LinkedIn.
  • Led the development of new features and foundational improvements for LinkedIn Messenger, including:
  • A mechanism to enable efficient synchronization of members' inboxes across all of their devices
  • Smart replies, AI-powered suggestions for replies to new messages
  • Infrastructure optimizations to improve end-to-end message delivery latencies
  • Core scalability improvements to the Messenger architecture to enable stability through site traffic growth

Software Engineer

Aug 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Built and maintained the infrastructure for the platforms supporting content sharing and the article publishing platform at LinkedIn. Drove major initiatives including building out a new externalized developer API for content sharing.

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • Analyzed potential impact of introducing relevant member-published articles into news feeds with Hadoop MapReduce.
  • Automated the ramp-up of the publishing feature to 100 million members.
  • Added ability to mark articles as spam from an editor’s interface.
  • Added computation of a quality score for articles to improve a real-time article feed.

Uc berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor

Aug 2014Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Berkeley, CA

  • Taught CS 188 (Artificial Intelligence) and EE 20 (Signals and Systems) to students at UC Berkeley.

Box

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Los Altos, CA

  • Developed a Scala web service to automate deployments of built artifacts from a Maven server to hundreds of Windows hosts.
  • Integrated the service into the existing deployment infrastructure.

K12

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Herndon, VA

  • Developed a client for a Java web service for asset management.
  • Developed a new error handling system to send emails to engineers containing in-depth information about errors when they occur.

Pinkberry ventures, inc

Team Member

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Herndon, Virginia, United States

  • Served as a team member for a Pinkberry location, preparing the location for service, serving frozen yogurt to customers, operating the cash register, and keeping the location clean.

Nasa - national aeronautics and space administration

Atmospheric Sciences Data Center Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Hampton, VA

  • I worked at the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center in the NASA Langley Research Center, parsing weather satellite information.

Education

Y Combinator

Oct 2024Dec 2024

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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