Nikita Goyal is a Design Verification Engineer at Meta since February 2021, with prior experience at Marvell Semiconductor | Cavium Inc as a Design Verification Engineer for AI/ML where responsibilities included block level and full chip verification for AI inference chips, emulation builds, and system-level testing using Python. Previously, Nikita served as an SSD Systems Validation Engineer at Micron Technology, focusing on PCIe and NVMe solid state enterprise drives, and as an ASIC Intern at NVIDIA, working on PCIe protocol link equalization. Early career experience includes a role as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nikita holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Panjab University.