Nikhil Kaushik
Research Engineer
IIT Roorkee, India
Summary
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RockstarNikhil Kaushik is a Research Engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and practical software engineering, currently at Cohesity after a stint at Adobe Research and roots at CSE IIT Roorkee. He combines a strong systems and full-stack background with hands-on product improvements, notably contributing UI and backend fixes to the widely used Rocket.Chat open-source platform. Comfortable across front-end UX tweaks and backend permissions, he has a track record of shipping reliable bug fixes that improve real user workflows such as message attachments, inline parsing, mentions, and emoji handling. His experience includes mentorship and collaboration in research lab settings and open-source programs like Google Summer of Code, reflecting both technical depth and community engagement. Based in Roorkee, India, he brings a research-minded approach to practical engineering problems, often translating experimental ideas into production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
chat10
javascript10
meteor10
ui-design9
markdown-it8
css8
html8
markdown8
realtime7
collaboration7
api6
mongodb6
apidoc6
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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