Himanshu Neema
Founder at UpVPN
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHimanshu Neema is a California‑based founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable infrastructure and machine learning systems across startups and automakers. He has held roles from SRE and infrastructure engineering to software development at Cruise, Argo AI, Volley and Flipkart, and now leads UpVPN where he shipped a consumer VPN product. An early contributor to a Rust OpenAI client, he implemented core API types, streaming completions (SSE), image generation, and file management—showing a knack for low-level, production-ready tooling in emerging AI ecosystems. His background in signal processing and DARPA‑scale ML research complements hands-on systems work, enabling him to bridge research ideas and robust engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityB Tech, Electrical Engineering, B Tech, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
openai-api10
apidoc10
async10
api10
error-handling10
rust10
reqwest9
serde9
builder-pattern8
image-processing8
testing7
persistent-volume-claims6
minikube6
devops6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
64bit/async-openai
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Rust library for OpenAI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 112 reviews, 83 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Himanshu primarily focused on building the core functionality of the Rust library for OpenAI, as evidenced by the initial implementation of types corresponding to the OpenAI API schema. Subsequent commits implemented a minimal completion feature, including error handling and the ability to stream server-sent events (SSE). They added support for image generation, including creating, editing, and varying images, along with file management capabilities.
rust-libraryrustopenai-apiopenaiasync
64bit/wordle-rs
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Wordle in Rust
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 10 months
rustwordle
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