Avantika Pandey is a third-year Bachelor of Engineering student in Computer Science at UIET, Panjab University Chandigarh. She is a GSoC 2026 contributor at UC OSPO, working on a user-centric documentation and onboarding website for the Network Simulation Bridge (NSB) under the mentorship of Harikrishna Kuttivelil.

She has experience in full-stack web development, open source contribution, and applied machine learning, having worked across research internships and independent projects that sit at the intersection of all three. Outside of structured work, she enjoys competitive programming, problem solving, and the craft of building software that is clean and well thought through.

In everything she builds, she is guided by the belief that access and usability are not afterthoughts — they are where the real work begins.