Hi, I’m Nikky.
Backend engineer — SDE 2 · Platforms Engineering at Educational Initiatives (Mindspark), shipping backend for an adaptive learning platform used by 500,000+ students.
4+ years full-time across Mindspark, Wing Assistant, and HackerEarth, plus earlier internships at multiple companies.
I ship VS Code extensions, write C++ plugins for Unreal Engine, and build AI tooling ahead of the curve. When I find something annoying, I tend to build a tool instead of complain about it.
Currently
At Mindspark
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QT report generation: 2m 16s → 18.9s (86% faster)
Profiled the report pipeline, identified the dominant cost (repeated per-student queries), refactored to a single batched aggregation. Shipped the win quietly.
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Built MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for dev workflows
Jira triage, PR review/comment automation, commit-log analysis, and LLM-backed Confluence ops — running in production since early 2026, before most teams had touched MCP.
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Owned backend for the Computational Thinking product
Amazon Feature Engineering partnership. Designed APIs, shipped features to 100,000+ students, handled checkpoint lifecycle + impact tracking end-to-end.
Full work history in the resume.
Selected work
Things I've built
Astra →
Personal AI task manager that parses plain English and auto-links tasks, people, and goals into a knowledge graph. Runs fully local.
Shipped LeetCode Practice Extension →
A VS Code extension for LeetCode practice — 40+ commands, cloud sync, interview mode, AI-assisted hints. Live on VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX.
WorldBuilder →
A C++ plugin for Unreal Engine 5 — click in the viewport to draw road networks with auto-junctions, snapping, and spline-based mesh generation. Also does buildings.
Storyboard →
A 5-stage pipeline that turns a story prompt into an illustrated comic with narration and a final video. Orchestrates ComfyUI, FFmpeg, LLMs, and Instagram.
Database & Developer Tools →
Several VS Code extensions for database-heavy workflows — SQL panels, package inspectors, JWT editors. The fun part was pushing the custom editor API.
About
A bit more
I’m a backend engineer based in Bangalore. Over 4 years full-time across Mindspark, Wing Assistant, and HackerEarth, plus earlier internships at Fotonicia and Gramoday — most of it remote, customer-facing, shipping production code.
I like problems that cross layers. One week I’m tuning a SQL report for an order-of-magnitude speedup; the next I’m writing C++ inside Unreal to generate road networks, or wiring an MCP server so our LLM can triage Jira. The connective tissue is that I actually ship — tools end up on the VS Code Marketplace, features reach 100k students, and the code has to run tomorrow morning.
Outside work: coffee, chess, CTFs. I co-organized NECTF 2022 — 400+ participants from 25+ countries — and play with F7 Conquerors.
Contact
Let's talk
Email is fastest. Happy to talk backend, platforms, AI tooling, or anything end-to-end.