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# nitishagar.github.io

Personal landing page for [Nitish Agarwal](https://github.com/nitishagar).

Highlights merged open-source contributions, GoDaddy engineering leadership, selected projects, and recent writing on [Medium](https://medium.com/@nitishagar).

## Local preview

Open `index.html` in a browser, or serve the folder:

```bash
python3 -m http.server 8000
```

Then visit `http://localhost:8000`.

## Deploy

GitHub Pages serves from the `master` branch root of this repository.
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Nitish Agarwal — Engineering, Open Source, AI Systems</title>
<meta name="description" content="Nitish Agarwal builds production AI systems, leads engineering teams at GoDaddy, and ships merged contributions across open source." />
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<a class="brand" href="#top">Nitish Agarwal</a>
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<p class="hero-kicker">Principal Engineer · Open Source · AI Systems</p>
<h1 class="hero-name">Nitish Agarwal</h1>
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Shipping production AI systems and merged contributions across the stack — while leading engineering teams that scale.
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<a class="btn btn-primary" href="#open-source">See open source</a>
<a class="btn btn-ghost" href="#writing">Read on Medium</a>
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<p class="section-eyebrow">Leadership</p>
<h2 class="section-title">Leading teams at GoDaddy</h2>
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Principal Engineer focused on AI transformation for Care and Commerce — building systems merchants and guides rely on every day.
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<h3>Commerce &amp; Care AI</h3>
<p>
Architected CASA, an LLM-powered commerce assistant spanning POS, mobile, checkout, and catalog — designed for tens of millions of merchants, with multi-agent QA for continuous coverage.
</p>
</article>
<article class="lead-block">
<h3>Scaled the India hub</h3>
<p>
Grew GoDaddy’s India engineering organization from a small core to 120+ engineers — hiring, org design, and delivery cadence that keeps platform work shipping.
</p>
</article>
<article class="lead-block">
<h3>Production AI, not demos</h3>
<p>
Leads Care Engineering’s CRM and tooling transformation for guides and customers — agent architecture, MCP, evaluation, and the operational discipline that survives production.
</p>
</article>
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<p class="section-eyebrow">Merged contributions</p>
<h2 class="section-title">Open source that landed</h2>
<p class="section-lede">
Recent merged pull requests into projects other people run in production — CI, observability, LLM gateways, Kubernetes, and IoT platforms.
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<div class="oss-featured">
<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/taskcluster/taskcluster/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anitishagar+is%3Amerged" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<span class="oss-org">taskcluster</span>
<span class="oss-count">12 merged</span>
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<h3>Taskcluster</h3>
<p>UI GraphQL fixes, gzip API middleware, docs, and reliability patches across Mozilla’s CI-at-scale platform.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View contributions</span>
</a>

<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/apache/superset/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anitishagar+is%3Amerged" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<span class="oss-org">apache</span>
<span class="oss-count">9 merged</span>
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<h3>Apache Superset</h3>
<p>Chart cross-filter correctness, table sorting, report CSV export, dashboard ownership, and MySQL time-grain fixes.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View contributions</span>
</a>

<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anitishagar+is%3Amerged" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div class="oss-meta">
<span class="oss-org">BerriAI</span>
<span class="oss-count">3 merged</span>
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<h3>LiteLLM</h3>
<p>Proxy spend-flush correctness, premium metadata gating, and session-aggregate cost/duration in request logs.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View contributions</span>
</a>

<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review/pull/507" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<span class="oss-org">alibaba</span>
<span class="oss-count">merged</span>
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<h3>Open Code Review</h3>
<p>Chunked inline review comments into bounded batches for Alibaba’s hybrid deterministic + LLM code-review action.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View pull request</span>
</a>

<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/23271" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<span class="oss-count">merged</span>
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<h3>minikube</h3>
<p>Enabled CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and related kernel options in the x86_64 ISO for better I/O observability.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View pull request</span>
</a>

<a class="oss-project" href="https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anitishagar+is%3Amerged" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<span class="oss-org">nextdns</span>
<span class="oss-count">3 merged</span>
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<h3>NextDNS</h3>
<p>Shell completion, dinit init support, and warnings when client discovery is disabled by loopback-only listen.</p>
<span class="oss-link">View contributions</span>
</a>
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<div class="oss-timeline" aria-label="Selected merged pull requests">
<h3 class="timeline-title">Selected merges</h3>
<ul class="timeline-list">
<li>
<time datetime="2026-07-27">Jul 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review/pull/507" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chunk inline comments into bounded batches</a>
<span>alibaba/open-code-review</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2026-07-08">Jul 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/23271" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Enable task I/O accounting in ISO kernel</a>
<span>kubernetes/minikube</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2026-06-18">Jun 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pull/30507" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Session-aggregate cost and duration in proxy logs</a>
<span>BerriAI/litellm</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2026-06-15">Jun 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/39775" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Numeric sort for metric columns in tables</a>
<span>apache/superset</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2026-06-09">Jun 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/taskcluster/taskcluster/pull/8514" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gzip compression middleware for the API layer</a>
<span>taskcluster/taskcluster</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2026-01-28">Jan 2026</time>
<a href="https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-java/pull/2749" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fix ActivityOptions merge UnsupportedOperationException</a>
<span>temporalio/sdk-java</span>
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2022-07-07">2021–2022</time>
<a href="https://github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anitishagar+is%3Amerged" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Named &amp; expiring API / provisioning keys across SDK, API, CLI</a>
<span>balena-io · 20+ merges</span>
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<section id="projects" class="section section-projects">
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<p class="section-eyebrow">Repositories</p>
<h2 class="section-title">Things I’ve built</h2>
<p class="section-lede">
Open tools for agent readiness, verifiable AI decisions, MCP authoring, and observability — the same themes as the writing.
</p>

<div class="project-list">
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/sober-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div>
<h3>sober-ai</h3>
<p>Lighthouse reimagined for the AI-first world — audit AI agent readiness the way you audit web performance.</p>
</div>
<span class="lang">JavaScript</span>
</a>
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/receipta" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div>
<h3>receipta</h3>
<p>Tamper-evident receipts for every AI decision — Ed25519-signed, hash-chained, offline-verifiable.</p>
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<span class="lang">TypeScript</span>
</a>
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/mcp-author-kit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div>
<h3>mcp-author-kit</h3>
<p>Scaffold, grade, test, and debug MCP servers from inside Cursor — because broken tools are usually broken descriptions.</p>
</div>
<span class="lang">JavaScript</span>
</a>
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/lexvault" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div>
<h3>lexvault</h3>
<p>Reversible proprietary-term pseudonymization for LiteLLM — mask codenames outbound, restore them faithfully inbound.</p>
</div>
<span class="lang">Python</span>
</a>
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/OTel-query-mcp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<h3>OTel-query-mcp</h3>
<p>MCP server for querying observability backends — OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana, Elastic Cloud, OpenSearch.</p>
</div>
<span class="lang">Python</span>
</a>
<a class="project-row" href="https://github.com/nitishagar/repro-agents" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<div>
<h3>repro-agents</h3>
<p>Agents that rerun your science and show their receipts — reproducibility auditors for scientific Python projects.</p>
</div>
<span class="lang">Python</span>
</a>
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<p class="section-more">
<a href="https://github.com/nitishagar?tab=repositories" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Browse all repositories on GitHub →</a>
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<section id="writing" class="section section-writing">
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<p class="section-eyebrow">Medium · @nitishagar</p>
<h2 class="section-title">Latest writing</h2>
<p class="section-lede">
Field notes for engineering leaders — what survives production over what demos well.
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<div class="article-list" data-articles>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/everyone-is-building-mainframes-again-28dde9829342" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-07-24">Jul 24, 2026</time>
<h3>Everyone is building mainframes again</h3>
<p>AMD just shipped a $5 million rack. Nvidia sells factories. The AI industry has re-entered its System/360 era.</p>
</a>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/your-agent-has-no-slo-heres-how-to-give-it-one-9fa59a5fb843" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-07-21">Jul 21, 2026</time>
<h3>Your Agent Has No SLO. Here’s How to Give It One.</h3>
<p>Traditional monitoring assumes deterministic code. Agents aren’t. A field guide to observing and budgeting LLM agents.</p>
</a>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/your-coding-agent-doesnt-need-a-memory-layer-yet-cff3d32dd155" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-07-06">Jul 6, 2026</time>
<h3>Your Coding Agent Doesn’t Need a Memory Layer (Yet)</h3>
<p>Agent memory is 2026’s vector database: real pain, serious funding — and a markdown file already doing most of the job.</p>
</a>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/the-dns-for-ai-agents-one-year-later-what-ans-v2-gets-right-317715e83c39" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-07-02">Jul 2, 2026</time>
<h3>The DNS for AI Agents, One Year Later: What ANS v2 Gets Right</h3>
<p>How the Agent Name Service went back to the drawing board — and why its second act matters to your architecture.</p>
</a>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/reproducibility-is-a-labor-problem-agents-are-labor-3320a1b603b6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-06-11">Jun 11, 2026</time>
<h3>Reproducibility Isn’t a Specification Problem. It’s a Verification Problem.</h3>
<p>Scientific Python solved environment specification. Verification still runs on volunteers — three agent patterns for the rest.</p>
</a>
<a class="article" href="https://nitishagar.medium.com/your-mcp-tool-isnt-broken-your-description-is-1af59cb28373" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<time datetime="2026-05-20">May 20, 2026</time>
<h3>Your MCP tool isn’t broken. Your description is.</h3>
<p>The silent-failure problem nobody owns — and the Cursor plugin built to stop guessing.</p>
</a>
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<p class="section-more">
<a href="https://medium.com/@nitishagar" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">All articles on Medium →</a>
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