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nishantbalaji/README.md

Hi! I'm Nishant ๐Ÿ‘‹

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I'm a Computer Engineering master's student at UC San Diego ๐Ÿ”ฑ. I love working with computers in both software and hardware roles and learning new technologies. I'm passionate about CS education and spreading CS to underrepresented communities!

  • I'm currently working at:

  • I previously was at:

    • ๐Ÿ”ท Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at UCSD, a computing org at UC San Diego as the President, and the VP of Events.

      • I facilitated over 250 events over the school year for a community of 3.5k students!
      • I hosted ACM's annual career fair, SPACE!
      • I founded DiamondHacks, ACM's hackathon to help get students interested in coding and further their skills, with over 200 attendees!
      • I helped found ACM's outreach program, where we teach CS to underpriviledged students in the San Diego Community
      • I'm the student org liason for the ECE Alumni Board, working to foster connections between student organizations and the department.
    • ๐ŸŽฎ Roblox as a software engineering intern, working on bringing OpenCloud to the Memory Stores service.

    • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ NVIDIA in the hardware infrastructure group on the Test Automation Team and then the Security Team as a software engineering intern.

      • On the Test Automation team, I built a web based platform for CPU and GPU engineers to see the status of all their running tests
      • On the Security team, I implemented observability on the security auditing platform, giving developers more insight onto the platform.
    • The ECE Day committee to make an event that celebrates the spirit of Electrical and Computer Engineering!

    • The ECE Alumni Board as the ECE Student Org Liason, working to connect student orgs with the Alumni Board.

    • ๐Ÿ›ฐ NASA Goddard as a software engineering intern on the EOSDIS team working to create a usage based data discovery tool using machine learning and natural language processing.

    • ๐Ÿ’ก Triton Software Engineering (TSE), as a developer, building a platform for the League of Amazing Programmers.

    • ๐Ÿ  NOMฮ›D (acquired by WISH STR Enterprises), a prop-tech SaaS startup disrupting the homesharing industry, as a tech lead.

    • ๐Ÿ’  ACM Dimensions, a conference aimed to exploring the various facets of technology, as both a developer and logistics lead.

In my freetime, I like to take photos, build mechanical keyboards and hang out and explore new foods!

email โ€ข website โ€ข linkedin โ€ข devpost

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  1. website website Public

    ๐Ÿ  personal website! ๐Ÿ 

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  2. engaged engaged Public

    Forked from jasmine-dragons/engaged

    AI-powered classroom simulation for smarter teacher training. ๐ŸŒฒ Made for TreeHacks 2025.

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  3. twitch-plays-pokemon twitch-plays-pokemon Public

    ๐Ÿ•นplay pokemon with twitch chat!

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  4. todo-cli todo-cli Public

    ๐Ÿ“ƒ todo list in your cli ๐Ÿ“ƒ

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  5. apod apod Public

    ๐Ÿ›ฐnasa astronomy picture of the day

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  6. stratified-random-sampling-system stratified-random-sampling-system Public

    ๐Ÿ“Šdata sampler

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