Nikhil Simha is a Software Engineer on the Machine Learning infrastructure team at Airbnb. He is currently working on Bighead (DSAA '19), an end-to-end machine learning platform. Prior to Airbnb, he built a scheduler (Turbine, ICDE '20) and a stream processing framework (RealTime Data @ FB, SIGMOD '16) at Facebook. He is interested in the intersection of compilers, machine learning and realtime data processing systems. Nikhil got his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. While not working, he likes to boulder or play capoeira.