Nithish Karthik
Chief Technology Officer And Research Lead at Pixa AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNithish Karthik is a software leader and researcher with five years of engineering experience, currently serving as CTO and Research Lead at Pixa AI while completing an undergraduate degree at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He blends front-end craftsmanship—demonstrated by user-focused contributions to the popular Layer5 open-source project—with cloud-native and research-oriented roles at CNCF, The Linux Foundation, and programs like Google Summer of Code. Comfortable shipping production UI improvements (smooth transitions, dynamic learning-path rendering, and navigation enhancements), he also brings experience across protocol and infrastructure communities from Summer of Bitcoin to CNCF maintainership. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs academic rigor in metallurgical engineering with a pragmatic software mindset, often translating complex research ideas into polished, user-centric implementations. Peers describe him as a clean-code advocate who gravitates toward improving developer and learner experiences in open-source ecosystems.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
IDD, Metallurgical Engineering, IDD, Metallurgical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
react10
ui-design9
html9
css9
cloud-native8
gatsbyjs7
configuration-management6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
layer5io/layer5
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Layer5, expect more from your infrastructure
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 38 commits, 14 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nithish primarily contributed to the front-end of the Layer5 project, focusing on UI enhancements and improving user experience. They added smooth transitions to the platform installation component and dynamically rendered the number of courses in learning paths. Furthermore, they refactored the table of contents for learning paths and incorporated a service mesh switcher for enhanced navigation within the learning content. They also modified the contact form behavior based on the browser type.
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humblenginr/meshery
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
Meshery, the service mesh management plane
Contributions:179 pushes, 98 branches in 3 years 2 months
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