Nimisha Asthagiri
Head Of Advanced Analytics & AI, Thoughtworks North America at iNishly LLC
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNimisha Asthagiri is a seasoned technology leader and architect with over a decade of experience driving large-scale digital transformation, currently heading Advanced Analytics & AI for Thoughtworks North America. She blends inclusive, principle-driven leadership with hands-on platform and backend engineering—previously shaping the Open edX ecosystem as Chief Architect to reduce deployment times and radically lower developer cognitive load across a multi-million-line codebase. Nimisha is skilled at translating domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and platform strategy into measurable outcomes, and she pairs that with practical techniques like Cost of Delay and hypothesis-driven development. A resilient re-entry into tech informs her mentorship and commitment to diverse voices; she also advises through her firm iNishly and serves on advisory boards. Her open-source contributions include meaningful backend work on Open edX repos (ecommerce and edx-platform), reflecting a sustained focus on scalable APIs, OAuth/payment integrations, and performance-sensitive features.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS MEng Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS MEng Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStuyvesant High School
Github Skills (14)
rest-api10
api10
backend10
data-service10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
oauth10
webservice10
django10
testing10
serialization9
data-serialization9
javascript4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Feb 2014 - Feb 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 1012 commits, 882 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Nimisha primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Open edX platform. Their work focused on the video_outline API, including code modifications in serializers.py and other utilities. Furthermore, the user was involved in restructuring and moving API view decorators in the codebase. Their contributions also extended to test utilities, with modifications evident in the mobile API tests.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 36 PRs, 120 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nimisha primarily worked on back-end components, focusing on OAuth2 authentication, payment integrations and API development. They refactored existing code, replacing deprecated components and updating documentation related to OAuth configuration. Furthermore, the user implemented features for a Payment Micro Frontend. The changes also included updates to the basket and order summary functionalities.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
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