Nikhil Krishna
Engineering at BlackRock | Scalable Systems | AI Platform & Infra | Technical Leadership
- Role
- Lead Software Development Engineer at BlackRock
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nikhil Krishna
Backend and product-focused full-stack software engineer with 14+ years of experience…
Experience
Lead Software Development Engineer
Aug 2013 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Leading product development, backend architecture, AI and technical strategy for multiple internal platforms. Focused on scalable solutions across entity resolution, metadata, and access control.Key Contributions- Architected and delivered a high-throughput entity resolution pipeline handling millions of datapoints daily- Designed metadata management systems to power analytics- Led technical direction and implementation for synthetic data generation for evaluating AI powered applications- Mentored a team of senior and junior engineers; drove performance, code quality, and long-term maintainability- Leading AI strategy for our team.
Skills
- R
- Scala
- Apache Spark
- C++
- Hive
- Quantitative Finance
- Hbase
- Shell Scripting
- Data Structures
- Java
- Apache Pig
- Pl/Sql
- Javascript
- Falcon
- Unix
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Mapreduce
- Perl
- Financial Modeling
- C
- Algorithms
- Fixed Income
- Sas
- Sql
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