likes building things, solving problems, and passionate people :)
about me
enthusiastic about building products, creating impact, becoming a better engineer, bathing in art, and being a queer icon[wip] 🌈
helping others is my 3rd favourite hobby
I would love to provide product insights/test out your new product/conduct a mock dsa interview/whatever: hi@nipunika.xyz
learning more things to help y’all better :)
past work
![Software Engineer, Google [July 2022 - now]
- worked in the Vouchers Team of Google Pay to help reward our users with 💲💲💲.
- migrated components to Material 3 UI, implemented and launched new expiry labels for rewards, helped add in-app coupon redemption for offline codes, and revamping reward card UI.](https://www.notion.so/icons/credit-card_blue.svg?mode=light){kind=icon}
Software Engineer, Google [July 2022 - now]
- worked in the Vouchers Team of Google Pay to help reward our users with 💲💲💲.
- migrated components to Material 3 UI, implemented and launched new expiry labels for rewards, helped add in-app coupon redemption for offline codes, and revamping reward card UI.
Spring Analyst(Engineering), Morgan Stanley [Jan 2021 - July 2022]
- worked in the Securities Reference Data team to automate their data integration.
- developed a POC for data transformation using Talend and Kafka.
Founder’s Office and DSA Instructor, AccioJob [Nov 2021 - Feb 2022]
- worked with the founders of this YC-backed startup to help hire instructors, establish interviewing protocol, and write core subject primers.
- conducted over 50 mock interviews, briefly taught DSA, and held several interview prep talks.
Software Engineering Intern, Google [May 2021 - July 2021]
- worked in the Risk team in Google Pay to onboard their server onto a logging service.
- made the server GDPR compliant by logging our data within India.
Autonomous Navigation Engineer, ARES Robotics [Sept 2019 - Feb 2020]
- led path planning to optimise navigation for our college mars rover prototype Atom 2.0.
- re-implemented the path planning node using a kinodynamic approach cutting traversal time by 35%.
experimented
co-founder(idea explorer?), CPay(lol) circa 2021 in a bull economy :’)
"GPay but pay in crypto"
(tried to) build an app for a crypto-fiat currency pool that lets users pay in crypto at a locked-in exchange rate through QR scanner, we convert the payment to fiat-currency, and the merchant receives the payment in local currency allowing merchants to support crypto payments without any hassle or friction. ran into legal red tape with major banks, project was never launched. happy to help people who want to explore this further :)
Proposal for zk-verifiable-credentials on matic chain
istg ill work on this someday, drop a hi if you wanna collaborate :)
tinyShell
built a tiny but fully functional linux shell that supports all bash commands with piping and background processing features
other cool things i did
Delegate in Harvard National MUN in Boston where my team was invited to represent our college in 2019
Got accepted in Intuit’s Augment program in 2020 post which I landed an internship at Intuit.
ETHWMN 2022 fellow where DevFolio helped me transition to web3 ecosystem
directed and adapted a super cool play called Shoonya Batta Sannatta
Co-wrote the chapter
Blockchain in Smart Healthcare Facility for Bentham publicationsopen source contributor at LibreHealth
maintained and added to their EHR documentation + found and fixed bugs in the EHR UI
my skills
Languages | Proficient: C++, Java, Dart
Beginner: C, Solidity, Shell, SQL |
Frameworks | Proficient: Flutter
Beginner: ROS, Moralis, Linux |
one day i hope to
be as funny as my sister irl
- start my own YT channel
- learn ML(wip)
- be able to build and ship scalable products reliably as an engineer on my own
- call myself a polymath and not feel like an imposter
- write a newsletter that people would want to subscribe to
- replace the less cool things on this page with much cooler things
hypertext literature
some of this is written by me and most of it is written by people much smarter than me
Web 3 literature no one regrets readingPapershelf on system design[wip]th0ts about life, love, and self growth[always wip]things i wroteTo-Do Listcontact me
let’s talk!
text me [whatsapp, signal, or telegram] at (redacted)
nipunika.co18@nsut.ac.in
P.S. grateful to sidb.me for lending me their ui