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name: Nikhil Kumar Panigrahi
role: Backend Developer & ML Engineer
location: Hyderabad, India
currently:
company: WhatBytes
position: Backend Developer Intern
stack: [Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL]
previously:
- AI/ML Intern @ Infosys Springboard
- CLAM Team @ Oppia Android β 4 merged PRs
open_to: internships & collaborationsBackend Developer Intern β WhatBytes Β· Jun 2026 β present
- Built production REST APIs for a construction-management platform: GPS-geofenced attendance, trip lifecycle, and fuel tracking.
- Implemented JWT + OTP authentication and role-based access control across 6 user roles on a production PostgreSQL backend.
- Wrote 12+ database schema migrations and designed an asset-management system with 3-state status tracking.
AI / ML Virtual Intern β Infosys Springboard Β· Sep 2025 β Nov 2025
- Shipped an OCR + ML pipeline for Aadhaar identity verification: 85% fraud-detection accuracy, 60% less manual review time across 200+ documents.
- Deployed Scikit-learn models behind stateless Flask REST APIs for real-time inference.
- CompanyMind β Semantic search and RAG over 2,000+ enterprise documents. Hybrid retrieval (MongoDB Atlas Vector Search + full-text + Reciprocal Rank Fusion), FastAPI/Express.js, Groq Llama 3, SSE streaming. Cached responses < 1 ms, hybrid retrieval < 200 ms. β Live
- π 2nd Runner-Up β MongoDB Smart Bridge Hack N Go
- ASSISTLY β Community-care platform. Flask + React.js + Firebase real-time sync, JWT auth with role-based access. β Live
- Aadhaar Fraud Detection β OCR + ML identity verification (see Infosys internship above).
- Oppia Android β CLAM Team member. PR #6121 Β· PR #6144 Β· PR #6175 Β· PR #6198 β Kotlin unit/UI tests across merged PRs.
- freeCodeCamp β PR #63866 β Java OOP curriculum content, served to 10M+ learners.
- MongoDB Associate Developer
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