Aayush Naik is a software engineer and startup CTO with 11 years of experience building autonomous systems—from collaborative robotic arms and AUVs to AI agents exploring mazes—and now leading product and engineering at a San Francisco-based startup he co-founded. He spent several years at Apple advancing production-grade software and holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego where he researched cognitive robotics. Comfortable in culturally diverse, fast-paced teams, he combines hands-on engineering with systems-level thinking to move prototypes into robust deployments. He also contributes to open-source projects’ documentation, improving developer experience in widely used tooling like coala’s linting ecosystem. Known for writing clean, maintainable code, he pairs practical robotics expertise with a penchant for clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 73 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Aayush primarily contributed to the project's documentation and tutorials. They added tutorial links, explained the use of variables within the Linter Bears tutorial, and provided a tutorial on self-correcting bears. They also fixed typos and made minor formatting changes, indicating a focus on improving documentation clarity and accuracy.
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