NiyasHameed
I'm an AI engineer at Wolfia (YC). I build LLM agents and work right next to the customers using them, which is my favourite part. I also contribute to open-source tools I use, including Gemini CLI and Warp.
Experience
Wolfia (YC S22)
- Joined as the second engineer and was promoted four times. I now lead forward deployment, running customer PoCs from the first scoping call through production handoff.
- Built the trust center and the AI agent behind it, which answers from a customer's own documentation with citations, plus a verification layer that catches hallucinated answers before they reach a user.
- Built the Chrome extension from scratch to automate security questionnaires across 20+ vendor portals, cutting turnaround from two weeks to four hours.
- When the same customer need keeps showing up, I turn it into a roadmap item instead of patching it for one account.
Vue.AI
- Partnered with the CTO to plan and maintain the public-facing SDK.
- Built Vue Up, multi-cloud automation with Helm and Kubernetes across AWS, GCP and Azure that cut setup from days to minutes.
- Contributed upstream fixes to Airbyte, which our data platform depended on.
- The company was acquired in 2025.
Datachecks
- Third engineer, working with the CEO on the first ML and data quality platform.
- Designed and built the core validation engine, from the interface through the backend.
- Presented it at Open Source India 2023. The project has since grown past 150 GitHub stars.
Open Source
PyAirbyte
PyAirbyte brings the power of Airbyte to every Python developer. Powers the Airbyte Cloud Replication MCP.
In their words
In their words
What stood out to me was his willingness to go beyond what was expected, including contributing directly to open-source projects that our platform depended on.
Niyas is consistently dependable, and I relied on him on numerous occasions when we needed to deliver and demo new features quickly.
Getting GIF Backgrounds to Play in Warp
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!
It forgot my model choice every session, until a PR of mine landed in Google's official repo to fix it.
The Hackathon Demo That Needed No Setup
We moved beyond a simple prototype to build a production-grade system featuring synthetic data generation, real-time forecasting, and single-command Kubernetes deployment. Here is the architecture that secured our win.