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Backend Engineer · System Designer · Open Source Enthusiast

B.Tech in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence @ IIT Bhilai · Available for opportunities

Professional Summary

Backend and systems engineer in the final year of a B.Tech at IIT Bhilai, currently a Software Engineer Intern at Emergent as a Polaris Fellow, working on agent infrastructure. 39 merged PRs into external open-source projects, including 11 into MOSIP Inji Certify across three C4GT cohorts. LFX Mentee at RSTUF (OpenSSF), FOSSEE Summer Fellow at IIT Bombay, intern at HSBC Technology India, and former OpenLake Coordinator.

Experience

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Emergent (Y Combinator), Bengaluru

Software Engineering Intern: Agent Infrastructure & Evals (Polaris Fellowship 2026)

July, 2026 - Present

Selected as one of 10 Polaris Fellows (from 10,000+ applicants) for a six-month placement at Emergent. Built and maintain the internal tooling to read any agent trajectory and replay any LLM call on 14 models (Next.js, BigQuery, 17-tool MCP server): page load 16s to 2.7s, BigQuery cost $202 to $12 a day. Built and maintain a counterfactual eval bench that clones a production agent job, rewinds to any human turn and replays it on N models for blind ranking (Temporal, Pub/Sub). Working on agent orchestration (a Go multi-agent runtime), agentic model routing and Wingman, a WhatsApp companion agent.

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OpenSSF via Linux Foundation

Project Intern (LFX Mentee): TUF, Supply Chain Security

May, 2026 - August, 2026

Selected for the Linux Foundation's LFX Mentorship Program through OpenSSF, on Repository Service for TUF (RSTUF). Built role-specific online keys for custom TUF delegations and their nested hash bins, across the RSTUF worker, API, CLI and umbrella repos: +5,591 / -1,172 lines and 93 new unit tests. Containerized the TUF Metadata Visualizer and integrated it into Kubernetes-based RSTUF deployments with Helm. Mentorship completed.

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HSBC Technology India, Pune

SDE Intern: Backend Microservices, Developer Experience

June, 2026 - July, 2026

Developed Java microservices (Vert.x, Spring Boot) in a distributed enterprise architecture and contributed to Vite microfrontends. Built AI developer agents integrating GitHub, Jira and Confluence to surface docs, issues and repo context in-workflow.

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MOSIP via C4GT

Project Intern

October, 2025 - February, 2026

Implemented OpenID4VCI Pre-Authorized Code Flow in MOSIP Inji Certify, enabling seamless issuance of Verifiable Credentials without real-time authentication. Developed credential offer generation, pre-authorized code validation, token exchange workflows, multiple authorization server support, metadata discovery, caching, and OID4VCI-compliant credential issuance APIs. Across all three cohorts: 11 merged PRs into inji-certify, +9,963 / -1,185 lines.

Summer Intern, C4GT DMP'25

June, 2025 - October, 2025

Worked on MOSIP Inji Stack, enabling Inji Certify to issue Verifiable Credentials (VCs) in the mDoc (ISO/IEC 18013-5) format. Implemented data element and namespace mapping, digest calculation, Mobile Security Object (MSO) construction, CBOR encoding, and OpenID4VCI integration for standards-compliant credential issuance.

Project Intern, C4GT Sprint'25

February, 2025 - May, 2025

Implemented a Revocation Mechanism for Verifiable Credentials compliant with W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 and BitString StatusList v1.0. Developed APIs for credential status updates, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized revocation workflows.

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OpenLake Club, IIT Bhilai

Coordinator

April, 2025 - April, 2026

Leading IIT Bhilai's open-source community by defining technical roadmaps, mentoring contributors, organizing workshops and hackathons, and driving collaborative software projects across the institute.

Core Member

April, 2024 - March, 2025

Contributed to open-source projects, organized technical events, mentored junior members, and helped expand participation in the institute's developer ecosystem.

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OSDAG, IIT Bombay

FOSSEE Summer Fellow

May, 2025 - July, 2025

Selected for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship at IIT Bombay. Contributed to OSDAG, an open-source structural steel design platform, supporting the mission of democratizing engineering design tools through collaborative development.

Featured Projects

ACORDE

Local-first peer-to-peer data sync engine with CRDTs and end-to-end encryption.

GoSQLitelibp2pCRDTCryptographyDistributed Systems

BitTorrent Client

Custom BitTorrent protocol client built from scratch in Go with P2P file sharing.

GoNetworkingP2PBEPProtocols

Agent-Control-Plane

Durable execution coordinator for fleets of isolated AI agents, with no LLM in the control loop.

GoDockerDistributed SystemsAI Agents

HalfLife

Temporal reranking middleware for RAG, published on PyPI as halflife-rag.

PythonRAGRerankingVector SearchPyPI

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai

B.Tech in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

2023 - 2027 (Expected) | CGPA: 9.14 (so far)

Relevant Coursework
Data StructuresAlgorithmsDatabase SystemsMachine LearningSystem DesignComputer Networks

St. Gregorios School

Higher Secondary (12th) | PCM + CS

2023 | Marks: 96%

St. Gregorios School

Secondary (10th)

2021 | Marks: 98%

Technical Skills

Languages

GoPythonJavaTypeScriptC/C++JavaScriptSQL

Backend & Frameworks

Next.jsFastAPINode.jsSpring BootNestJSReactTemporalGCP Pub/SubTauri

Databases

PostgreSQLRedisMongoDBSQLiteQdrantBigQuerySupabaseNeo4jFirebase

Systems & Protocols

libp2pCRDTgRPCGraphQLBitTorrent BEPDHTOpenID4VCI

AI & Agents

Agent Evaluation & ReplayMCP ServersMulti-Agent OrchestrationLLM RoutingRAGPlaywright

Tools & DevOps

DockerKubernetesHelmGitHub ActionsGitLinuxCI/CDGrafanaPrometheus

Achievements

Polaris Fellow

2026

One of 10 fellows from 10,000+ applicants, six-month placement at Emergent

LFX Mentee, OpenSSF

2026

Linux Foundation mentorship on Repository Service for TUF

MOSIP C4GT Intern

2025

Selected for three consecutive Code for GovTech cohorts, from 4,200+ applicants

FOSSEE Summer Fellow

2025

IIT Bombay fellowship for open-source contributions

OpenLake Coordinator

2025

Leading IIT Bhilai's premier open-source club

Speaker, DPG Dialogues

2025

India International Centre, New Delhi

Codeforces

2024

Rating: 1433 in competitive programming

Open Source

MOSIP Inji Certify

Contributor, C4GT

11 merged PRs, +9,963 / -1,185: VC revocation, mDoc issuance, OpenID4VCI pre-auth flow

JavaSpring BootW3C VCCBOR/COSE

RSTUF (LFX / OpenSSF)

Mentee

Role-specific online keys for TUF delegations across worker, API and CLI; mentorship completed

PythonTUFSupply-chain Security

GoFr, Nirmata, sktime/skpro

Contributor

Supabase driver for GoFr, 7 merged PRs at Nirmata, KernelMixture distribution in skpro

GoKubernetesPython

OpenLake Projects

Maintainer

Leading multiple community initiatives

CommunityMentorshipEvents

Personal Projects

Creator

80 public repositories with 7400+ contributions

Various Tech Stacks

Contact Information

Location: Bengaluru, India
GitHub: @amaydixit11
LinkedIn: @amaydixit11