Niyas Hameed

AI Engineer

AI Forward Deployed Engineer at Wolfia (YC S22)/Chennai, India

AI forward deployed engineer at Wolfia (YC). I built the trust center used by companies like Notion, Amplitude, and Miro, and the questionnaire product that answers security questionnaires from a company's own documentation. Now I run customer PoCs from the first scoping call to production handoff. Before that: multi-cloud provisioning at Vue.ai, and the core data validation engine at Datachecks.

Experience

Wolfia (YC S22)AI Forward Deployed Engineer2025–Present
Second engineer on the team, working closely with the founder. Built the trust center and compliance product that enterprise customers audit before they sign, accelerating $1B+ in customer pipeline. Promoted three times in the first year, then moved into forward deployment.
Vue.AIPlatform Engineer2023–2025
Architected Vue Up, a multi-cloud provisioning system that cut environment setup time by 96% across 12+ microservices. The company was acquired in 2025.
DatachecksSoftware Engineer2022–2023
Third engineer at the company. Built the first ML and data quality platform alongside the CEO.

Projects

ProfiteerIOPython · Airbyte · MindsDB2025
E-commerce forecasting system. Simulates traffic, trains ML models, and predicts purchasing trends in real time.
HelmInspectPython · Helm · Kubernetes2025
Kubernetes drift detection tool for Helm charts with Slack alerting and CLI.
TartarusFastAPI · PostgreSQL · Helm2024
Secure, centralized configuration management system with version control and encryption.
RhythmBReact · TypeScript · FastAPI2023
Scalable music streaming platform using ANN algorithms for intelligent discovery.

Open Source

warpdotdev / warp★ 64,976
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
Latest fix(workspace): Enable animation for theme background images
google-gemini / gemini-cli★ 106,936
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Latest feat: automatic `/model` persistence across Gemini CLI sessions
confident-ai / deepeval★ 18,230
The LLM Evaluation Framework
Latest fix: add o4-mini to unsupported logprobs models list
airbytehq / PyAirbyte★ 344
PyAirbyte brings the power of Airbyte to every Python developer. Powers the Airbyte Cloud Replication MCP.
Latest Chore(deps): Update `psycopg` to `^3.1.19` for `macOS` <14 compatibility
datachecks / dcs-core★ 178
Open Source Data Quality Monitoring.
Latest feat(metrics): implemented standard deviation + tests

Skills

AI & LLM
  • Claude SDK
  • OpenAI API
  • RAG pipelines
  • Prompt engineering
  • Structured outputs
  • Agentic systems
  • MCP
Eval & Observability
  • Hallucination detection
  • Shadow-mode A/B testing
  • Sentry
  • PostHog
Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

Recommendation

“Niyas is consistently dependable, and I relied on him on numerous occasions when we needed to deliver and demo new features quickly.”

Pradeep Raghuraman  /  Vue.ai

Writing

Getting GIF Backgrounds to Play in WarpAug 2026
I wanted a lo-fi GIF behind my terminal. Warp froze it on the first frame. So I fixed Warp, and now everyone gets animated backgrounds.
Gemini CLI Kept Forgetting My Model. So I Fixed It!Dec 2025
It forgot my model choice every session, until a PR of mine landed in Google's official repo to fix it.