Nikhil Chelliah
Farm Crew at Solar Car Team at UVA
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Chelliah is a pragmatic engineer with 14 years of experience bridging software and hands-on mechanical work, currently balancing farm crew responsibilities at UVA Morven Kitchen Garden with mechanical engineering on the Solar Car Team. Previously a full‑stack and Web/Edge mentor at Optimizely, he led complex product initiatives and shipped scalable web systems across front-end and edge infrastructure. His background includes contributions to political and media tech—optimizing fundraising and voter-facing sites for Biden for President and building CRM tooling at Hulu—showing a knack for mission-driven web work. Trained in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at UIUC and pursuing Mechanical Engineering at UVA, he blends rigorous CS fundamentals with physical design and fabrication skills. Notably, he pairs production software experience with practical agricultural and composite fabrication expertise, thriving on real‑world projects that make measurable impact.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science / CompE (major), Electrical & Computer Engineering (minor), Mathematics (minor), Computer Science / CompE (major), Electrical & Computer Engineering (minor), Mathematics (minor) at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (39)
javascript10
npm10
core-library10
npm-package10
html-document10
analyticsjs10
optimizely10
command-line10
monorepo10
nodejs10
segment10
full-stack9
cli8
python8
android-sdk8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nchilada/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:58 pushes in 5 years 7 months
nchilada/freesewing
Aug 2022 - Jun 2026
Freesewing's monorepo holding all our NPM packages, including our core library
Contributions:40 pushes, 27 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
monoreponpm-clijavascriptnpm-packagecore-library
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