Nisarga Markandaiah

About

Nisarga Markandaiah is an engineering manager at Spotify, where she leads a distributed team spanning Europe and North America. Her team operates at the intersection of content understanding and advanced machine learning to enhance user experiences across the Spotify platform. Prior to her current role, she served as an engineering manager within the search organization at Etsy, following an eight-year tenure as a software engineer. Her professional background also includes a period at IBM, where she contributed to the Watson AI organization, developing enterprise machine learning solutions. In her leisure time, she engages in birdwatching at various New York City parks, explores the city’s buzzing food and art scene, and enjoys spending time with her family on weekends.