Nishit Patel
Software Engineer at Wayground (formerly Quizizz)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNishit Patel is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently focused on Search and Discovery at Wayground (formerly Quizizz). As a founding backend engineer at Locale.ai he led GKE provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and implemented security- and ops-focused features like webhooks, signed URLs, and authentication revamps to improve reliability and customer workflows. He is fluent in Java and Python, comfortable across Kubernetes, GCP, Linux, and DevOps practices, and consistently drives scalability and resilience in production systems. Nishit contributes to open source—most notably through a GSoC project with GNOME working on Tracker and Nautilus—which reflects his attention to storage/indexing semantics and UX-facing search features. Based in Bengaluru and trained at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, he blends startup founding experience with pragmatic engineering to turn complex infrastructure needs into maintainable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.tech, Computer Engineering, B.tech, Computer Engineering at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar
Github Skills (134)
scribe10
transit10
openstreetmap10
overpass-api10
javascript10
wikidata10
names10
flags10
pipeline9
operation9
oauth9
canonicalization9
java9
ics-security9
pygobject8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nis130/Portfolio
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year
nis130/Pointer-Calulator-App
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Cross Platform Pointer Calculator App for FY-KJSCE
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
kjscecalculatorcalculator-apppointercross-platform
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