Nimalan Mahendran

Nimalan Mahendran has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Their most recent position is as a Machine Learning Engineer at Liminal, where they are responsible for building software and models for an ultrasound-based solution aimed at improving battery performance, reliability, and safety for battery manufacturers. Prior to this, Nimalan was a Co-Founder at Bullfrog Labs, where they spent several months incubating ideas and exploring software-based solutions in the "tools for thought" space.

Nimalan also has a significant tenure at Twitter, where they held various positions. Nimalan started as a Software Engineer in the User Growth organization, where they built features to drive user engagement and growth while designing and maintaining scalable product infrastructure. Nimalan later transitioned to an Engineering Manager role, growing and leading the Contacts Graph team. Nimalan also worked as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Cortex, Twitter's central machine learning infrastructure and applied research team.

Before Twitter, Nimalan worked as a Software Developer at Summify, a startup acquired by Twitter, where they worked on the entire product. Nimalan also gained experience as a Machine Learning Researcher at Optemo Technologies, focusing on natural language processing and product recommendations.

Earlier in their career, Nimalan held roles as a Software Developer at Business Objects/SAP, where they worked on high-performance cross-platform software, and as a Software Engineer at Qualcomm, contributing to an embedded systems engineering effort. Nimalan also worked as a Software Developer at Sandvine Incorporated, developing a distributed traffic simulator, and at Net Integration Technologies, developing software for Linux-based office network servers. Nimalan also briefly worked as a Technical Writer at White Clarke Technologies.

Overall, Nimalan Mahendran's work experience showcases their expertise in machine learning, software development, and leadership roles across various industries.

Nimalan Mahendran completed a Learning for Action Fellowship at Terra.do in the year 2021. Prior to this, they pursued an MSc in Computer Science from The University of British Columbia, which they completed between 2008 and 2011. Their undergraduate education was at the University of Waterloo, where they obtained a BMath degree in Computer Science from 2001 to 2006.