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Nirmal Utwani

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Director of Engineering at Amplitude
📍 San Mateo, California, United States

Nirmal is a Director of Engineering at Amplitude, where he leads the teams for AI products and core analytics. He has deep expertise in distributed systems and data pipelines and is a founding engineer at the company. He holds a Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Outside of his main role, Nirmal is an active angel investor in several early-stage technology startups, focusing on AI and developer tools. He often reflects on the parallels between the rapid evolution of AI and human cognition, drawing comparisons to his young childs learning process.

He led the design and implementation of Amplitudes Nova 2 query engine, which successfully reduced average query latency by 70%.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Mateo, California, United States
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AI in Analytics
Leads Amplitude's AI and analytics engineering teams. Actively posts about shipping AI products to enterprises and integrating analytics with platforms like Anthropic's Claude.
Startup Investing
Serves as an angel investor for numerous tech startups, including those in AI, developer tools, and data infrastructure, such as Chalk. ai and Enterpret. com.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Director of Engineering
Amplitude
1-2024 - 1-2025
Director of Engineering, Growth
Amplitude
3-2023 - 12-2023
Senior Engineering Manager
Amplitude
1-2020
Angel Investor
Angel Investor
9-2013 - 12-2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
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Education
2012 - 2014
Master's degree
University of Pennsylvania
2008 - 2012
Bachelors of Engineering
Vivekananda Education Society’s Institute Of Technology, University of Mumbai
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