Nikhil Bysani
Software Engineer at Vectara
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Bysani is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems from New York. He has progressed from principal engineering roles into senior leadership, driving major initiatives like migrating Signifyd from AWS to GCP and executing a zero-downtime cross-cloud Cassandra migration. At Signifyd he grew US engineering from 20 to 40 engineers and led efforts to transform a monolith into event-driven microservices that increased transaction throughput tenfold. Now at Vectara, he continues to focus on robust, production-grade distributed systems and observability. Known for balancing hands-on architecture with pragmatic team scaling, he blends technical depth in databases and cloud migrations with practical delivery leadership. Trained at UIUC in computer science, he brings both academic rigor and startup-to-scaleup experience to complex infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (67)
vector-database10
fine-tuning10
application10
gradle10
llm10
gpt9
kotlin9
data-structures9
java9
groovy9
amazon9
starlark8
python-sdk8
macros8
aws-sdk8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nikron/jaeger-client-java
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Jaeger Bindings for Java OpenTracing API
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
apitracingjavaopentracingjaeger
vectara/vectara-docs
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Documentation for Vectara's GenAI Platform
Contributions:32 reviews, 31 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 10 months
machine-learning
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