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Kush Zingade — CTO & Engineer

Accelerated CS @ Boston University, graduating a year early. I build production systems as the sole engineer — a degree planner used by ~900 students, and a nonprofit's entire 250+ endpoint platform. Alongside that, I contribute to the LLM inference stack (vLLM, llm-d, KServe, InstructLab): my niche there is finding the paths a new feature quietly fails on.

📈 Contribution activity

contribution calendar

🧩 Currently building


CTO & Sole Engineer
Honor Society of Cinematic Arts

Multi-tenant platform · 250+ endpoint API · live across 15+ chapters & 150+ members

SWE Intern
BU Spark!

Harvard Herbaria OCR confidence layer (FastAPI) · micro-credentialing platform · BU Spark!'s project showcase (sole author, live at atlas.buspark.io)

SWE Intern
Doro (Local Treasure)

TikTok OAuth, Stripe checkout & moderation tooling (Django/DRF)

Research Assistant
BU CISS

Financial markets × geopolitical uncertainty · Python data workflows

Previously — AI & Software Engineer Intern @ HireBuddy · Lead Software Engineer @ Hack4Impact BU


🔧 Open source — LLM inference stack

I contribute to vLLM, llm-d (a CNCF sandbox distributed LLM inference stack founded by Red Hat, Google Cloud, IBM Research, CoreWeave and NVIDIA), KServe, and Red Hat's InstructLab. Contributions now also span Grafana, Redis (node-redis — merged fix), Prisma, MLflow, Keras, Datadog, and the Model Context Protocol registry — same method everywhere: reproduce the failure with executed evidence before proposing the fix.


53
pull requests across 21 repositories in 15 organizations

17
merged — including 12 into llm-d-benchmark reviewed and approved by two separate core maintainers, plus fixes merged into vLLM and node-redis

9
defects found and filed against a newly released no-Kubernetes deployment path, 6 reproduced live with tracebacks

~30
substantive code reviews and root-cause analyses on other contributors' PRs and issues

What I am actually useful for: running a brand-new feature on a machine its maintainers do not have, a clean macOS laptop with no cluster and no GPU, and finding the paths where it reports success while doing nothing. That produced nine issues against one feature, including a container name collision that let one deployment's teardown destroy a sibling deployment's running containers.

Reviewing counts too. On someone else's pull request I found that a proposed dependency pin would fail the project's own version comparison, so every install would re-run the installer and silently overwrite the user's kubectl binary. Proven by running the project's own function against the proposed value.

Also opened fixes merged into the Kubernetes SIG's gateway-api-inference-extension (3 merged, 1 draft) and open PRs against SGLang.

🚀 Featured work

Atlas

🏦 Atlas — Digital Twin of the Global Financial System

Autonomous banks, central banks & payment rails (RTGS/ACH/SWIFT/CLS/DTCC), systemic-risk analysis, crisis replay & a hand-written regulatory DSL.

TypeScript Node Tests

▶ Live demo · Code

Terrier Tracker

🎓 Terrier Tracker

Degree planning for ~900 BU students across 6,000+ courses. Requirement-validation engine, vector-embedding semantic recommender replacing a quota-limited LLM at zero marginal cost, Redis layer at ~81% hit rate over 66k+ lookups.

Flask React Redis

▶ Live demo

HSCA Portal

🎭 HSCA Portal

The production system of record behind my CTO role — member lifecycle, payment-gated resources, evaluation forms & a film festival, with per-chapter tenant isolation.

Next.js Postgres

▶ Live

HireBuddy

🤝 HireBuddy — AI Recruiting Platform

Built the AI candidate-sourcing engine (Elasticsearch-DSL over CoreSignal) — tripled candidates surfaced per search (100 → 300) — and co-built a GPT-4o-mini pre-screening engine scoring across 10 evidence-backed dimensions.

Next.js TypeScript Elasticsearch

▶ Live product

Harvard Herbaria

🌿 Harvard Herbaria  @ BU Spark!

OCR confidence-preservation layer for a specimen-digitization ML platform — a versioned per-field certainty envelope surfacing Azure vision-OCR to reviewers, plus SSRF + authorization hardening.

Client-owned (BU Spark!) — no public repo

Micro-Credentialing platform

🎖️ Micro-Credentialing  @ BU Spark!

Owned the SE-Chem badge-authoring wizard end-to-end — decomposed an 843-line page into components, killed a stale-closure bug, and batched createMany writes cutting DB round-trips to ~13.

Client-owned (BU Spark!) — no public repo

✨ Highlights

🏆 InstructLab KnowFlow

LangGraph + MCP agentic workflow automating InstructLab contributions — accepted for upstream evaluation.
🥈 Cognify

AI course & career advisor over 6,000+ BU courses with Gemini recommendations & skill-gap analysis.
⚛️ Quantum Explorer

Interactive 3D quantum-entanglement platform with AI-powered concept grading.

🗺️ How I build

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flowchart LR
    UI["Frontend\nReact · Next.js · Three.js"] --> API["APIs\nFastAPI · Flask · Express · DRF"]
    API --> AI["AI Layer\nLangGraph · MCP · embeddings · TF-IDF retrieval"]
    API --> DATA[("Data\nPostgres · Redis · Elasticsearch")]
    AI --> DATA
    API --> INFRA["Infra\nDocker · AWS · Vercel · Railway"]
    DATA --> INFRA
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🧰 Stack

Python TypeScript JavaScript C SQL
React Next.js FastAPI Flask Django
Postgres Redis LangGraph Docker AWS



🏆 Best Use of AI, Red Hat–IBM  ·  🥈 2nd Place, BU DS+X 2025

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