Nikhil Kaushik
Research Engineer
IIT Roorkee, India
Summary
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RockstarNikhil Kaushik is a research engineer with eight years of experience, currently at Cohesity and previously at Adobe Research, with a CSE background from IIT Roorkee. He blends research-driven problem solving with hands-on full‑stack engineering, demonstrated by a Google Summer of Code engagement and contributions to the widely used open-source Rocket.Chat project. His work spans user-facing UI improvements (message attachments, inline code parsing, mentions, emoji handling) and backend fixes like permission defaults and timestamp link repairs. Known for translating research insights into practical, production-ready systems, he thrives at the intersection of UX polish and reliable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
chat10
javascript10
meteor10
javascripts10
ui-design9
markdown-it8
css8
html8
markdown8
realtime7
collaboration7
api-doc6
api6
mongodb6
mongodb-database6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 21 PRs, 61 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on improving the Rocket.Chat user interface and fixing bugs. Their contributions included modifying the message attachments and enhancing their display. They also addressed issues with inline code parsing, mention functionality, and emoji handling, as well as fixing timestamp links in attachments. Furthermore, they contributed to the backend by giving owner the default room delete permission.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
c0dzilla/Rocket.Chat
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor.
Contributions:187 pushes, 30 branches in 5 years
meteorrocketchatzuliponline-chatchat
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