Nish Sinha
Software Engineer at GitHub
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolNish Sinha is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across startups and enterprise teams, currently contributing to Dependabot at GitHub. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—recently enhancing Dependabot’s Terraform support and default HCL2 parsing—with a history of end-to-end testing work at GE Digital and SRE-focused testing practices at NCR. Comfortable leading small teams and shipping products, he co-founded a mobile-first startup that published to Google Play and won multiple entrepreneurship awards. An undergraduate researcher with publications in mobile sensing and water-quality ML, he brings a researcher's rigor to production problems. Active on open source, he’s implemented feature flags and lockfile updates for widely used automation tooling, showing an eye for practical, high-impact improvements. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he also mentors peers on interview prep and web fundamentals, translating complex concepts into approachable workshops.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.58/4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.58/4.00 at Georgia State University
English, Hindi, Latin, Korean, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
hcl10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
dependency-analysis9
testing9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
git9
automation-testing9
automations8
automation8
cicd8
spellchecking6
plotly6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dependabot/dependabot-core
May 2021 - Jan 2023
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 497 reviews, 323 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nish primarily focused on enhancing the Dependabot core logic for Terraform, implementing features and tests for Terraform-based projects. They introduced feature flags for HCL2, wrote tests for file updating, and modified file parsing to include 'tags/' in the expected git source test. They switched the HCL2 parser to be the default parser, and added support for updating Terraform lockfiles with `terraform providers lock`.
dependenciespythonelmorgslogic
Nishnha/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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