HYDERABAD, INDIA
Nischay
Software engineer working on AI products and developer tools, from the first design doc to production.
Experience
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- supista · swe intern (2022-07): Integrated payment gateways (+14% online transactions) and built Android performance monitoring (−22% crashes).
- Branch open-source, active since 2023-01.
- open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io #2156 (2023-01): Docs: TypeScript exporter examples
- whizlabs · cloud computing intern (2023-04): Built and maintained hands-on GCP and AWS labs; two Sprint Star awards and a quarterly Outstanding Distinction award.
- whizlabs · cloud products associate (2024-05): Serverless abuse detection that cut malicious resource incidents by 78%; lab teardown reworked to cut deletion costs by 35%.
- activist-org/activist #995 (2024-10): Runner for the i18n test suite
- huggingface/transformers #34343 (2024-10): Fix batch-size handling in Trainer.prediction_loop for DataLoaderShard
- activist-org/activist #1020 (2024-12): Test coverage for group models
- Branch bridgetalk (2025-01 – 2026-06): Built and shipped the consumer and B2B apps of an AI speaking coach on iOS and Android (Flutter, FastAPI, GCP).
- whizlabs · cloud labs engineer (2025-04): RAG support agent over AWS and GCP docs: 65% of tickets automated, median time-to-resolve down 42%.
- Branch m.tech · nit rourkela, active since 2025-08: M.Tech in Signal & Image Processing, NIT Rourkela (2025 – May 2027, expected).
- appwrite/templates #338 (2026-02): Python storage-cleaner function template
- WordPress/ai #258 (2026-03): Standalone AI image generation in the Media Library (v0.4.0)
- WordPress/ai #330 (2026-04): Bulk "Generate Alt Text" action
- WordPress/ai #289 (2026-04): Refine from Notes, later Editorial Updates
- WordPress/ai #512 (2026-05): Image generation loading-state fixes
- WordPress/ai #528 (2026-05): Rename to Editorial Notes / Editorial Updates
- HEAD — amd · intern (co-op), developer experience (2026-07): Building internal developer tooling for IP engineers.
- WordPress/ai #861 (2026-07): Link Editorial Updates to visual revisions
Currently Intern (co-op), AMD Developer Experience · M.Tech, NIT Rourkela · contributing to WordPress AI
Selected work
3 case studies
OPEN SOURCE · 2026
MergedEditorial Updates for WordPress AI
AI that applies an editor's unresolved notes to post content, block by block, and lets the author review and roll back the result.
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OPEN SOURCE · 2026
Shipped v0.4.0AI in the WordPress Media Library
Standalone AI image generation and bulk alt-text generation for the WordPress Media Library.
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EDTECH · 2025–26
LiveBridgeTalk
An AI speaking coach for IELTS and TOEFL candidates, built from zero, with consumer and B2B apps on iOS and Android.
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Open source
WordPress/ai
6 merged PRs: Editorial Updates, Media Library image generation, bulk alt text.
huggingface/transformers
Fixed batch-size handling in Trainer.prediction_loop for distributed evaluation.