Rithvik Nishad is a software engineer with 7 years of experience focused on building scalable backend systems and contributing to open-source digital public goods. Based in Kerala, India, he works at Open Healthcare Network and eGov Foundation, where he has driven backend model enhancements, schema migrations, and AWS S3 integration for healthcare infrastructure. He contributed significantly to Care, a Digital Public Good for TeleICU and decentralized healthcare capacity management, demonstrating a commitment to impact-driven engineering. Rithvik combines a practical, data-model-first approach with hands-on tooling like management commands for test data, reflecting attention to maintainability and deployment readiness. Trained in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at VIT, he brings cross-disciplinary problem-solving and a sustained passion for building things that scale.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
Care is a Digital Public Good enabling TeleICU & Decentralised Administration of Healthcare Capacity across States.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:572 reviews, 24 commits, 210 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rithvik primarily contributed to the backend of the application, focusing on model enhancements and feature additions. They added new fields to the `Asset` model and deprecated an existing one, indicating database schema modifications. Furthermore, they modified models related to patient consultations and daily rounds, adding new fields and deprecating others to update the data structures. They also implemented a management command for loading dummy data and configured AWS S3 settings.
Contributions:592 commits, 77 PRs, 119 pushes in 9 months
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Rithvik Nishad - Software Engineer at Open Healthcare Network