Nishant Arora
DevOps Engineer at QuoteMedia, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNishant Arora is a DevOps engineer and Master's student in Software Engineering at Concordia University with over a decade of IT experience and a strong B.Tech foundation from SRM. He has led cloud migrations and DevSecOps initiatives at Unisys, delivered monitoring and automation that cut MTTR and infrastructure costs, and now works on DevOps and developer-focused roles at Kinaxis and QuoteMedia. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive full-stack and back-end improvements to notable projects like IPFS Companion and SponsorBlockServer—adding trustless gateway checks, service workers, and performance optimizations. Combining hands-on cloud, CI/CD and backend skills with a developer mindset, he also enjoys teaching, athletics, singing and sketching, reflecting a balance of technical depth and creative curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
10+2, PCM, 87%, 10+2, PCM, 87% at Shemrock Senior Secondary School, MohaliBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.86 CGPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.86 CGPA at SRM UniversityMaster's degree, Software Engineering, 3.66/4.3, Master's degree, Software Engineering, 3.66/4.3 at Concordia University10th grade, 9 CGPA, 10th grade, 9 CGPA at Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar
English, Hindi, Punjabi, French
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
apidoc10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
typescript10
ipfs10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
api10
typescript-types10
opera-extension10
webextension10
typescripts10
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/public-gateway-checker
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Checks which public gateways are online or not
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nishant contributed significant features to the project, including implementing trustless gateway checks, adding an IPNS check, and integrating a service worker for cache busting. They modified core files to incorporate trustless response types and updated the UI to reflect the new features. Additionally, they addressed bugs and made improvements to the flag column and IPFS-GeoIP integration.
ipfschecksspecificationsgatewaysipfs-gui
ipfs/ipfs-companion
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Browser extension that simplifies access to IPFS resources on the web
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 53 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nishant primarily worked on improving the IPFS Companion browser extension. Their contributions include refactoring the reloading mechanism for tabs, migrating the project from `ipfs-http-client` to `kubo-rpc-client`, fixing toggle button issues for Firefox, and removing unnecessary state change notifications. They also addressed testing issues by extending the timeout duration for certain tests.
ipfs-gatewayipfsbrowserprotocolp2p
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