Please message me if you want to know more about the various opportunities we have at Quora!
At Quora:
1. We move really fast in small teams of smart people and solve complex technical challenges.
2. Decentralize ownership over projects and decisions.
3. Foster rapid career growth while encouraging sustainable work/life balance.
4. Are building the biggest repository of the human knowledge, the world has ever seen.
Check out our engineering blog for some of the specific things we have been doing - http://engineering.quora.com/.
I'm looking for great engineers to help Quora grow and share the world's knowledge.
Software Engineering Manager @ Leading Quora's efforts to maintain and improve the quality of the content. My team is also responsible for all the core parts of the product (e.g question, answer, votes etc).
Some things my team has launched in the last few months:
http://blog.quora.com/Most-Viewed-Writers
http://blog.quora.com/Highlighting-Published-Answers
http://blog.quora.com/Raising-the-quality-bar-improving-how-answers-are-collapsed-on-Quora
http://blog.quora.com/Moderation-at-Scale-Distributing-Power-to-More-People
http://blog.quora.com/Scaling-Civility-on-the-Internet
http://productupdates.quora.com/Most-Wanted-Questions
http://productupdates.quora.com/Improving-Answer-Credibility
http://productupdates.quora.com/Making-Question-Downvotes-More-Powerful
http://productupdates.quora.com/Stats-on-Profile-Showing-Your-Reach
http://productupdates.quora.com/Stats-Two-Small-Product-Changes
http://productupdates.quora.com/Making-View-Counts-More-Prominent-on-Answers
http://productupdates.quora.com/Adding-Question-Details-Before-a-Question-is-Posted
http://productupdates.quora.com/Making-it-Easier-to-Select-Context-Topics
http://productupdates.quora.com/Uploading-Images-via-Drag-and-Drop From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer, Content Quality @ Built several systems to understand, monitor and improve the quality of user generated content at Quora. From July 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 1 month) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer, Performance @ Worked in a 1-member team responsible for end to end performance of Quora. Did several things including building tools to monitor for performance regressions, working on caching layer of our infrastructure and creating a new distributed web server architecture called Ultralisk. From October 2012 to June 2013 (9 months) Mountain ViewAlgorithm Instructor @ Coach and problem setter at training and selection camp for Indian team to IOI. From May 2012 to June 2012 (2 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaResearch Intern @ Did research to scale SVMs to ultra large scale - proved several results about decision boundary learnt by SVMs in a particular type of feature space. From May 2011 to July 2011 (3 months) Bangalore, IndiaCombinatorics Instructor @ Taught Combinatorics to Delhi region mathematics olympiad candidates, graded their exams and helped select the team. From 2011 to 2011 (less than a year) New Delhi Area, IndiaSoftware Engineering Intern @ As one of the first three developers, I set up Credii's full text search, designed DB schema for the core app and prototyped the frontend in Javascript. From May 2010 to July 2010 (3 months) New Delhi Area, India
B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi From 2008 to 2012 Halwasiya Vidya Vihar Bhiwani Nikhil Garg is skilled in: Software Development, Product Development, Engineering Management, Python, JavaScript, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Linux, Java, C++, C