Sandeep Nishad
Advisory Research Engineer at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSandeep Nishad is an Advisory Research Engineer at IBM with a decade of experience bridging applied research and production-grade engineering in machine learning, data science, and reinforcement learning. An IISc Bangalore M.Tech (dissertation in RL) and GATE AIR 34, he has moved from research software roles into advisory responsibilities while maintaining hands-on contributions. He has industry experience including a Bing Ads data science internship at Microsoft and sustained involvement in open source as a maintainer on Hyperledger/Cacti and Hyperledger-Labs/Weaver, reflecting a strong interest in distributed systems and blockchain interoperability. Known for translating RL research into practical systems, he combines academic rigor (9.3 GPA at IISc) with a track record of shipping reliable research software at scale from Bengaluru.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.3, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.3 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 80.78%, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 80.78% at Harcourt Butler Technical University
Github Skills (74)
interoperability10
security10
distributed-ledger10
fabric10
corda10
ledger10
cactus10
decentralization10
heterogeneous10
hyperledger-fabric10
kotlin10
consensus10
blockchain-platform10
dlt10
data-sharing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sanvenDev/ocr
Mar 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
sandeepnRES/cacti
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Hyperledger Cacti is a new approach to the blockchain interoperability problem
Contributions:5 releases, 49 PRs, 344 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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