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nikhil
goyal.

builds systems that think.

ai engineer & software developer — building rag pipelines, voice agents, and low-latency systems. b.e. computer science @ thapar (2026). passionate about ml, competitive programming, and shipping production ai.

700+

leetcode solved

1759

contest rating

8.8

cgpa

📍 patiala, india

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currently working on ai-powered knowledge systems and open source research.

Mar 2

work

REG-NMS Matching Engine

High-frequency trading matching engine in C++17

2025→

Vetta.ai

AI Technical Interviewer — full-duplex voice agent

2025→

Relay

High-Performance AI Gateway

2025→

Multi-provider RAG pipeline

TechiZen — Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Ollama

2025
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experience

achievements

700+ DSA problems · LeetCode top 8% · Contest rating 1759

Competitive problem-solving and algorithmic practice

Codeforces 1587 · CodeChef 1719

Competitive programming profiles

Meta Hacker Cup 2025 — Global Rank 758 (Round 2), 1899 (Round 1)

Meta’s global programming competition

Winner — NatWest Hack4aCause 2025

AI platform for digitizing handwritten content and automated evaluation

Top 100 — Amazon ML Challenge 2025

National-level machine learning competition

Finalist — Smart India Hackathon 2024

National hackathons

Top 5% Adobe GenSolve 2024

Adobe challenge

Machine Learning Specialization — Andrew Ng, Stanford & DeepLearning.AI

Completed ML specialization

stack

languages

C++
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL

backend

Node.js
FastAPI
Express.js
REST APIs
WebSockets
Docker

frontend

React
Next.js
TailwindCSS
Framer Motion

ai/ml

LangChain
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Gemini API
NeMo Guardrails

cloud & devops

AWS
GCP
Vercel
Docker
Linux

databases

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
Firebase
MySQL

currently exploring

Kubernetes
Rust
Cursor

writing

How I Built a Voice AI Interviewer with <800ms Latency

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Aug 2025

The story of building Vetta.ai and everything that broke along the way...

I Built a High-Frequency Trading Matching Engine. Here's What I Learned.

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Oct 2025

A REG-NMS compliant C++17 matching engine with ~230µs latency. What I built, why it matters, and what surprised me.

Your AI API Calls Are Leaking Money. I Built a Fix

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Jan 2026

Relay: a Go reverse proxy and API gateway for AI services. Caching, rate limiting, cost tracking, circuit breaking.

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let's talk

interested in collaborating or just want to chat? reach out — i'm always excited to connect with builders and thinkers.

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