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A little about my work 👋
I am a backend-focused developer who enjoys figuring out how things work behind the scenes and turning ideas into working software.
I mainly work with Python, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and REST APIs, and I also enjoy building systems around AI, RAG, vector search, and automation.
A few things I have built include CompanyMind, an AI-powered career intelligence platform built around 2,000+ enterprise documents, and ProofFace, a Rust-based project exploring cryptographic verification and blockchain integration.
I have also contributed to open-source projects including Oppia Android and freeCodeCamp, with multiple contributions merged into their repositories.
What I enjoy most is the engineering part of a problem understanding why something is breaking, tracing it through the system, improving the implementation, and making the final product more reliable.
This portfolio is a collection of the projects, experiments, and open-source work I have built along the way.
Have a look around and if you are building something interesting, I would love to work on it.
Portfolio: https://nikhilkumarpanigrahi.github.io/portfolio/
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