Resume | Nisarg Kolhe

Experience

Mar 2020 – Present

Mar 2024 – Present · New York, NY

Founding engineer on Forum, the standalone app for Facebook Groups and Meta's first AI-native app, shipped 0-to-1 in under 3 months; 1M+ downloads and rated 4.7/5 across 15K+ store ratings.
Leading engineering for international growth, building a framework to streamline launching Forum in new markets.
Sole engineer on the redesign of groups.com into a continuous feed for logged-out users; ran the launch as an A/B experiment, driving 4% DAU growth through better SEO and discovery.

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC

Tech lead for the Incentives platform powering checkout across the family of apps, supporting 5+ teams.
Partnered with Shops, FB Games and Meta Checkout to launch incentive campaigns with full end-to-end checkout experiences.
Mentored 5+ engineers and interns through project scoping, design reviews, code reviews and career growth.

Mar 2020 – Jan 2023 · Seattle, WA

Built platforms powering multi-million dollar incentive campaigns across the family of apps.
Led the Communications Platform for payments notifications, supporting 10+ teams and 15+ use cases and cutting implementation time from 2–3 weeks to 1–2 days.
Worked with Ads to launch a Rewards & Incentives product countering ads signal loss, driving a 13.5% lift in ad conversion; owned scoping and payments-side engineering.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · New York, NY

Built Live Commentating for Watch Party in React and Hack; notification experiments lifted topline metrics 2%.

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · Menlo Park, CA

Shipped a people-discovery flow for Android Search (Hack, Android, GraphQL) with an ML entity-ranking model.

Native macOS app for organizing Claude Code sessions, with a built-in orchestrator that builds products end to end. Predated native Dispatch and Claude Code in the desktop app.
Remote access and control of sessions from the macOS client and a native iOS app for Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Designed the harness architecture and native Mac app for a fully self-hosted personal agent system.
Built custom evals for proactiveness and independence, reaching parity with commercial products on background jobs, computer use (Cua) and web browsing.

Brought Arc's vertical tab management to Chromium browsers; grew an open-source community of 5 contributors and 3k+ DAU.