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Daryn Nakhuda is VP Software of Waabi, an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. Daryn is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in product development and engineering, at both startups and larger enterprises. He was CEO and Co-Founder of Mighty AI, one of the world’s leading data labeling companies, which was acquired by Uber in 2019, and part of the software leadership teams at Uber ATG and Aurora Innovation. Prior to launching Mighty AI in 2014, Daryn spent close to 20 years in product development: writing code, spec’ing products, and managing engineers. This includes serving as CTO of TeachStreet (sold to Amazon in 2012), helping launch the Amazon Restaurants business at Amazon, building large-scale systems from the ground up at Spam Arrest and eNIC (sold to VeriSign in 2001), and more. In his spare time, Daryn is an avid indoor cyclist (aka. Peloton fan boy!) who occasionally rides in the real-world, and an amateur cook working to perfect his live-fire technique on his Green Egg and backyard pizza oven.
Daryn Nakhuda Work Experience Details
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Head Of SoftwareWaabi Jul 2022 - PresentToronto, CaI'm part of the executive leadership team at Waabi, leading the software, product and program management, IT, Infrastructure, and vehicle operations teams. -
Senior Director Of Software EngineeringAurora Aug 2021 - Jun 2022Mountain View, California, Us -
Director, Software EngineeringAurora Jan 2021 - Aug 2021Mountain View, California, UsI joined Aurora as part of its acquisition of Uber ATG, leading the Ground Truth organization, which was responsible for creating the labeled data that used to train Aurora's machine learning models.I was also part of Aurora's Software Leadership Team, the Seattle site lead, and led Aurora's Software Culture Committee, where I personally rewrote the company's software engineering tenets.
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Director, Software Engineering - Uber AtgUber Jun 2019 - Jan 2021San Francisco, California, UsLeading data labeling efforts at Uber ATG following the acquisition of Mighty AI.As of September 2020, I've also taken over leading the Self Driving Vehicle Platform, which is responsible for building the applications and infrastructure that enables self-driving vehicles to operate as part of the Uber ridesharing network. -
Chief Executive OfficerMighty Ai Jul 2017 - Jun 2019Seattle, Washington, UsI become CEO of Mighty AI one morning in July 2017, when my Co-Founder and CEO was suddenly diagnosed with cancer and had to step down. I led the company through this sad time, including his passing a few months later, and then through a stage of growth culminating in the company's acquisition by Uber in July of 2019. At the time of the acquisition, we had close to 200 employees (FTE and contract) in Seattle, Boston, and Stuttgart, Germany. -
Founder & Chief Technology OfficerMighty Ai Oct 2014 - Jul 2017Seattle, Washington, UsI wrote a lot of the early backend code at Mighty AI (nee Spare5), and dabbled in infrastructure as well as iOS and frontend web code to design novel tasking interfaces for our crowdsourcing platform. I also hired and managed all of our engineers, data scientists, and engineering managers for the first few years before becoming CEO.Mighty AI’s platform curates high quality training and validation datasets for teams developing computer vision models across the autonomous vehicle, retail, robotics, and other industries. Our fully managed approach to image labeling delivers highly complex ground truth data and model validation at enterprise scale. We consult with every client to configure annotation workflows based on unique project specifications and flexibly tune each project as requirements evolve. Our cloud-based annotation tools (including segmentation, bounding boxes, keypoints, polylines, metadata attribution, and more), global community of trained annotators, and machine learning-based quality assurance systems enable us to generate millions of complex ground truth labels and validate detection model output with guaranteed accuracy.
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Director Of EngineeringPorch Apr 2014 - Oct 2014Seattle, Washington, UsI ran engineering and product for the Porch home report (carfax for your home) and growth team (user acquisition, activation, and retention). -
Founding Sde / Software Development Manager, Amazon RestaurantsAmazon Aug 2013 - Apr 2014Seattle, Wa, UsFirst software development engineer (SDE) and later first software development manager (SDM) on Amazon Local Restaurants, a true "startup within a big company". The initial Restaurants team was two people, myself and my manager. I helped define the product requirements, did the initial tech design, worked on the press release / faq (working backwards FTW!) and recruited, hired, and managed the engineering team. My role involved everything from talking to merchants and consumers to coordinating with other teams at Amazon on implementation details and presenting our ideas and progress to company leadership. I also personally contributed to the code base, writing tools to support restaurant, menu, and order management for internal users. -
Senior Software Engineer (Sde-3), AmazonlocalAmazon Feb 2012 - Aug 2013Seattle, Wa, UsLed engineering efforts on several key initiatives for the Amazon Local merchant engineering team, including the design and implementation of the third-party deal provider platform, merchant-driven deal management interface, and the Amazon Local UK expansion project. In addition to individual software contributions, I have helped provide organizational leadership through leading tech talks and design reviews, as well as participating in hundreds of interviewing and recruiting activities, and guiding junior developers with mentorship and code reviews.
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CtoTeachstreet.Com Jun 2009 - Feb 2012Seattle, Wa, UsI took over the CTO role at TeachStreet in June 2009, and worked closely with the CEO to oversee all aspects of product development, infrastructure, and all things technical. I wrote code as well as product specs, managed the development team, and helped guide strategy and tactical decisions. As part of a scrappy startup, I also took out the trash and did dishes. -
Senior EngineerTeachstreet.Com Oct 2008 - Jun 2009Seattle, Wa, UsAfter following the launch of TeachStreet closely since their start, I was presented the opportunity to join the team as an individual software contributor, where I was able to hone my Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL skills, while sharing my expertise in architecture, design, and infrastructure.Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MongoDB, Sphinx
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Director Of EngineeringMixpo Apr 2008 - Sep 2008Mixpo is a turnkey, online video advertising platform, bringing sophisticated and accountable advertising solutions to millions of small and medium-sized local advertisers.As the Director of Engineering, I was responsible for providing guidance and leadership to the development and operations teams, located in Mixpo's Seattle headquarters as well as a remote development office in Victoria, BC. I also provided hands-on contributions in areas of scaling and reliability.Technologies Used: Java, Flex, Actionscript, Linux, PostgreSQL
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Co-Founder And CtoEyejot Nov 2006 - Apr 2008UsEyejot is a web-based personal video messaging system, combining the benefits of email with the power of video. Eyejot was launched at the DEMO 07 conference in January of 2007.As a founder and the CTO, I was responsible for all technical aspects of the platform, as well as helping shape the overall direction and focus of the company, and being a public face and evangelist for the platform at industry events and conferences. Technologies Used: Java, Flex, Actionscript, Flash Media Server, Linux, MySQL -
Cto & Principal EngineerSpam Arrest, Llc May 2002 - Nov 2006Spam Arrest is the leading challenge-response based anti-spam service. During my tenure, I led all aspects of Spam Arrest's software architecture and development, as well as technical operations, including building out our colocated server infrastructure, and later restructuring the platform to leverage Amazon Web Services including S3 and EC2. Performance, reliability, and availability are the primary goals of the Spam Arrest sevice, which at its peak was in Alexa.com's top 1000 internet sites. Technologies: Java, Javamail, JMS, Memcached, Linux, Mysql, Email Protocols (IMAP/POP3/SMTP).
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Senior ProgrammerEnic / Verisign Aug 2000 - Mar 2002Reston, Virginia (Va), UsDeveloped software to facilitate registry and registrar operations for several top level domains, including .CC. Some of my projects included:* a private labelled domain reseller system* a common registry interface enabling eNIC and resellers to connect to various disparate registries (HTTP,XML-RPC,RRP,EPP,SMTP, and custom protocols) via a single interface* an RFC 2832-compliant registry-registrar-protocol (RRP) server, allowing .CC and other TLD registries to be accessed in the same manner as .COM. This project was completed in several weeks, with one other developer, using just the rfc and business rule documents from VeriSign as the design specification. Technologies used: Perl, Java, MySQL, Linux, FreeBSD, DNS/BIND -
ProgrammerAltrec.Com Mar 1999 - Aug 2000Altrec is an online retailer of outdoor lifestyle products. As part of the early development team, I developed much of the company's core platform and infrastructure, from core e-commerce components and website functionality to backend applications for merchandising and production use. * Ported prototype web application from Perl/ePerl to Java Servlets.* Created custom templating system in Java, including support for cobranding and caching.* Integrated early web services from USPS to provide automated return label generation. * Built a custom MS Access / SQL Server / VBA application for inventory management. Technologies: Perl, Java, MS SQL Server, VBA, Linux
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ProgrammerMedius Interactive 1997 - 1999Linköping, SeDeveloped websites and Internet applications for several high profile clients, including 3 MLB baseball teams and the American Basketball League. The ABL league and team websites were the first major projects that I took the technical lead on; including designing the database backend, building a homegrown templating system and calendaring/statistics code, as well as integrating with a satellite wire feed (Literally. We had a dish on our roof and a serial cable into the back of my SGI workstation. This was pre-Internet based feeds...)Technologies: Perl, C++ (NSAPI/ISAPI), mSQL, Informix, IRIX, Linux, MS Access, Flash, Java
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University Of MarylandComputer Science
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