Nitish Vashishtha
Software Development Engineer 3 at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNitish Vashishtha is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building production systems at companies including Amazon and Cisco, currently a Software Development Engineer 3 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines a strong academic foundation—a 3.9 MS in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon—with hands-on expertise in product-focused engineering for ad tech and publisher services. A lifelong learner and former Google Summer of Code participant and GitHub Campus Expert, he contributes to open-source testing infrastructure (notably improving Errbot’s test suite) and brings a meticulous QA/test-automation mindset to large-scale systems. Nitish’s background spans startups and enterprises, giving him a practical ability to ship reliable, testable features while mentoring peers. He’s driven by curiosity and productivity-focused products, and quietly strengthens teams by improving their testing and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraMaster’s Degree, Information Systems Management, 3.9 GPA, Master’s Degree, Information Systems Management, 3.9 GPA at Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III CollegeB.E.(Hons), Mechanical, Distinction, B.E.(Hons), Mechanical, Distinction at Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDelhi Public School, Rohini
English
Stackoverflow
826reputation
140kreached
4answers
12questions
Github Skills (15)
testing10
automation10
automations10
pytest10
python10
mocking10
chatbot9
discord-py6
gcc6
css6
coffeescript6
llvm-clang6
clang6
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
errbotio/errbot
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Errbot is a chatbot, a daemon that connects to your favorite chat service and bring your tools and some fun into the conversation.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nitish's commits primarily focus on improving the testing infrastructure of the Errbot project. They added and refined testing methods, including the implementation of mock object injection for plugin testing and support for multi-line command testing. Additionally, the user addressed a variable naming issue within the test framework, contributing to the robustness of the testing suite.
chatopschatbotspythondevopsdaemon
nvzard/Casino-Royale
May 2022 - Jun 2022
An API to simulate a deck of cards
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
apideckdeck-of-cardssimulate
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