Nityananda Gohain is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems, currently developing SigNoz, an OpenTelemetry-native APM that unifies metrics, traces, and logs using ClickHouse for billion-row analytics. He has a strong backend focus in Go and Python, with a track record of pushing system performance at scale and improving observability pipelines. Previously at Atlan as an early engineer he built authentication and authorization, credential management, and Vault-integrated Argo workflow tooling, contributing to the company’s growth to a $450M valuation. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced clients like gocloak and added UI features to projects such as Hoppscotch, and organizes the Golang Bangalore meetup community. Practical and performance-minded, he combines hands-on implementation with systems-level tuning—often benchmarking solutions against real-world, massive datasets.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary (11+12), Science, Higher Secondary (11+12), Science at Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva junior college
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Tezpur University
High School, Nursery-10, High School, Nursery-10 at Montfort High School,Chabua
Contributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 61 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Nityananda primarily contributed to the front-end development of the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 website. Their commits involved adding and updating speaker information, including images, names, and links to their profiles. They also made changes to the website's layout and design by swapping speaker positions, adding new speakers, and fixing the map zoom functionality. Furthermore, the user resolved conflicts and updated company names of the speakers on the website.
Contributions summary:Nityananda contributed to the development of the `gocloak` client by adding and modifying identity provider mapper functionalities. This involved implementing features to update, get, and delete identity provider mappers. Additionally, the user enhanced the client's functionality by adding methods to retrieve roles, including adding parameters to the `GetRealmRoles` function. The changes span across multiple files, including the core `gocloak.go`, `client.go`, `client_test.go` and related models.
golangkeycloak-clientkeycloakkeycloak-adapterauth
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Nityananda Gohain - Software Engineer at SigNoz (YC W21)