Nischal Dinesh, Software & Data Engineer
I turn rough ideas into software people actually use. I'm finishing my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma and working as a software engineer intern at the Irani Center (I-CCEW).
Check out Praxis, an app I built that turns the videos and posts you save into real practice. Outside of work I run, read non-fiction, write, and recently finished 75 Hard.
Experience
Software Engineer Intern · I-CCEW
Aug 2026 — Present
The Ronnie K. Irani Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth, University of Oklahoma · On-site
- Shipping features for PurposeMint's banking and savings app, from Real-Life Goals and savings flows to configurable Lockout Rules, built on scalable APIs and database integrations.
- Turning product requirements into working software and contributing at every stage, from system design and PostgreSQL development to testing, code reviews on GitHub, documentation and deployment.
Graduate Research Assistant · School of Library & Information Studies
Jan 2026 — Aug 2026
University of Oklahoma
- Built a web interface on major LLM APIs for children's STEM learning, with LangChain prompt orchestration and safety guardrails.
- Ran 20+ qualitative interviews with library professionals that shaped a generative-AI literacy platform for an IMLS-funded project.
- Co-developed ECHO, an open-source, low-code platform for reproducible human–AI interaction studies, published on arXiv.
Graduate Research Assistant · School of Visual Arts
Jul 2025 — Nov 2025
University of Oklahoma
- Architected a metadata system on PostgreSQL + pgvector for semantic search across artworks, curators and artists.
- Built a RAG pipeline with LangChain so visitors can query the collection in natural language.
- Automated ingestion into vector embeddings on AWS S3 with similarity-based deduplication and a hybrid SQL + vector retrieval layer.
Data Engineer · Instel Private Limited
Aug 2023 — Jun 2024
Bangalore, India
- Designed data models and ETL workflows to migrate client content to a CMS, cutting content-publishing latency by 32%.
- Built reusable data integration components that standardized ingestion and reduced maintenance overhead by 20%.
Projects
Praxis ↗
2026
Mobile app that turns saved Shorts, Reels and posts into scheduled practice sessions with a reflection log.
Expo · React Native · Supabase · Clerk
ECHO ↗
2026
Open-source platform for running reproducible studies of how people use chatbots and web search.
Incremental medallion (Bronze, Silver, Gold) lakehouse for 10K+ race records with idempotent Delta MERGE upserts and a star schema.
Databricks · Delta Lake · PySpark · Airflow
Art Connect ↗
2025
AI platform that makes an art collection searchable and conversational for learners and curators.
FastAPI · pgvector · RAG · Next.js
Event-driven ELT on AWS with partitioned S3 storage, SNS alerts and QuickSight dashboards.
Step Functions · Lambda · S3 · Athena
Athena ELT ↗
2025
ELT workflow that lands raw data in S3, catalogs it with Glue and queries it in place with Athena.
S3 · Glue · Athena
MalnadX ↗
2025
Daily coffee and pepper market prices plus a community feed for traders and planters in Karnataka.
Next.js · AWS · Redis
Skills
- Languages
- Python, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript
- Frameworks
- FastAPI, Node.js, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo
- Data
- PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, Delta Lake, Power BI, Tableau
- Cloud & DB
- AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Supabase, Firebase
- AI
- LangChain, RAG, pgvector, LLM APIs, Pandas, NumPy
- DevOps
- Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD
Education
M.S. Computer Science
University of Oklahoma
2024 — 2026
B.E. Information Science & Engineering
Bangalore Institute of Technology
2019 — 2023