Niyas Hameed
AI Software Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer at Wolfia (YC S22)/Chennai, India
“Niyas is consistently dependable, and I relied on him on numerous occasions when we needed to deliver and demo new features quickly.”
Experience
Wolfia (YC S22)
2025–Present
Forward Deployed Engineer
Second engineer on the team. Built the trust center and compliance product that enterprise customers audit before they sign, accelerating $1B+ in customer pipeline. Moved into forward deployment after three promotions in the first year.
Vue.AI
2023–2025
Software Engineer
Architected Vue Up, a multi-cloud provisioning system that cut environment setup time by 96% across 12+ microservices. The company was acquired in 2025.
Datachecks
2022–2023
Software Engineer
Third engineer at the company. Built the first ML and data quality platform alongside the CEO.
Open Source
warpdotdev / warpfix(workspace): Enable animation for theme background imagesgoogle-gemini / gemini-clifeat: automatic `/model` persistence across Gemini CLI sessionsconfident-ai / deepevalfix: add o4-mini to unsupported logprobs models listairbytehq / PyAirbyteChore(deps): Update `psycopg` to `^3.1.19` for `macOS` <14 compatibility · Feat: Introducing `AIRBYTE_OFFLINE_MODE` for air-gapped environmentsdatachecks / dcs-corefeat(metrics): implemented standard deviation + tests · feat(metrics): implemented sum metric + tests