Experience
Every role, in order.
Wolfia (YC S22)AI Software Engineer
2025–Present
- Shipped the trust center product that enterprise customers audit before they sign. Features include AI chat with citations and multi-tool support, tenant-owned certifications, multilingual support, NDA signing, CRM-linked auto-approval, and questionnaire intake.
- Built a Chrome extension for AI-powered vendor portal autofill, shipping handlers for 20+ portals (OneTrust, Upguard, Drata, ServiceNow, Vanta, and others) with shadow DOM traversal and iframe handling. Reduced questionnaire completion from two weeks to four hours.
- Designed an AI-driven reviewer workflow for the questionnaire product, with SME auto-assignment by topic, org-defined teams, and SLA breach alerting. Built a Slack auto-responder that classifies questions, answers from the knowledge base, and gates responses by quality.
Vue.AISoftware Engineer
2023–2025
- Architected multi-cloud automation using Helm and Pulumi, reducing configuration time from days to minutes.
- Owned core data connector services and the Vue SDK, publishing internal tools as open-source libraries and establishing contribution guidelines.
- Built connectors for Postgres, Delta Tables, and Elasticsearch to unify enterprise data sources.
- Contributed to Airbyte (YC), a subprocessor in Vue.ai's data pipeline, and was named PyAirbyte's 7th external contributor.
DatachecksSoftware Engineer
2022–2023
- Shipped the DataChecks core data validation engine and presented it at Open Source India 2023, reaching 150+ GitHub stars in the first month.
- Built the MLCheck dashboard for data scientists to monitor model performance in real time.
- Migrated 120+ components from Material UI V4 to V5 with zero downtime.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and deployed services to AWS.
CirqtIntern
2022
- Developed the core platform with SSO integration, supporting 10,000+ users during flagship online events.
- Built an interactive quiz platform for the Japan Foundation's SPOGOMI World Cup competition, handling dynamic forms and real-time submissions.
- Created screening feedback tools for the Chennai Japan Film Festival to collect viewer reactions during film screenings.
“He impressed us with his enthusiasm and his ability to quickly grasp new concepts and implement solutions with minimal guidance. Niyas is consistently dependable, and I relied on him on numerous occasions when we needed to deliver and demo new features quickly.”
Pradeep Raghuraman, on working together at Vue.ai