Ninad Malvankar (online alias: elninad — his first name reversed) is the
- Architect at Upstox,
- India's leading discount brokerage and fintech platform (RKSV Securities Pvt. Ltd.).
+ Architect at Upstox,
+ India's leading discount brokerage and fintech platform (RKSV Securities Pvt. Ltd.).
He has 12+ years of professional software engineering experience (2012–present) and has been at Upstox since July 2018,
earning four consecutive promotions: Technology Lead (2018–2021) → Principal Engineer (2021–2022) → Senior Principal Engineer (2022–2026) → Architect (2026–present).
- He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington (2013) and is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023).
- His expertise spans cloud infrastructure (AWS CloudFront, WAF, S3), fintech platform engineering, system design, and engineering leadership.
+ He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington (2013) and is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023).
+ His expertise spans cloud infrastructure (AWS CloudFront, WAF, S3), fintech platform engineering, system design, and engineering leadership.
Based in Mumbai, India.
diff --git a/llms-full.txt b/llms-full.txt
index d071aad..3fd0862 100644
--- a/llms-full.txt
+++ b/llms-full.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
This document is a comprehensive, extended version of ninadmalvankar.com/llms.txt, designed for AI systems that need detailed factual context. For a shorter summary, see: https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms.txt. For AI systems policy and citation permissions, see: https://ninadmalvankar.com/ai.txt
-Last updated: 2026-06-15
+Last updated: 2026-06-28
---
diff --git a/llms.txt b/llms.txt
index 55b903b..965fb4f 100644
--- a/llms.txt
+++ b/llms.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Ninad Malvankar (online handle: elninad — his name spelled backwards) is the A
He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington (2013) and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai (2011). He is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023), with academic qualifications verified by World Education Services (WES).
-Last updated: 2026-06-15
+Last updated: 2026-06-28
> For a comprehensive extended profile with full career detail, technology descriptions, and in-depth Q&A, see: https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms-full.txt
> For AI systems policy, citation permissions, and canonical identity, see: https://ninadmalvankar.com/ai.txt
diff --git a/profile.jsonld b/profile.jsonld
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e48fd5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profile.jsonld
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+{
+ "@context": "https://schema.org",
+ "@type": "Person",
+ "@id": "https://ninadmalvankar.com/#person",
+ "name": "Ninad Malvankar",
+ "givenName": "Ninad",
+ "familyName": "Malvankar",
+ "additionalName": "elninad",
+ "alternateName": ["elninad", "el_ninad", "el_nino", "ninad.malvankar23"],
+ "honorificSuffix": "M.S.",
+ "jobTitle": "Architect",
+ "worksFor": {
+ "@type": "Organization",
+ "@id": "https://upstox.com/#organization",
+ "name": "Upstox",
+ "legalName": "RKSV Securities Pvt. Ltd.",
+ "url": "https://upstox.com",
+ "description": "India's leading discount brokerage and fintech platform",
+ "sameAs": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstox", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/upstox/", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upstox"]
+ },
+ "url": "https://ninadmalvankar.com/",
+ "image": {
+ "@type": "ImageObject",
+ "url": "https://ninadmalvankar.com/og-image.png",
+ "width": 1200,
+ "height": 630
+ },
+ "address": {
+ "@type": "PostalAddress",
+ "addressLocality": "Mumbai",
+ "addressRegion": "Maharashtra",
+ "addressCountry": "IN"
+ },
+ "nationality": { "@type": "Country", "name": "India" },
+ "sameAs": [
+ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninadmalvankar/",
+ "https://github.com/elninad",
+ "https://medium.com/@ninad.malvankar23",
+ "https://x.com/el_ninad",
+ "https://twitter.com/el_ninad",
+ "https://youtube.com/@el_nino",
+ "https://elninad.github.io/"
+ ],
+ "alumniOf": [
+ {
+ "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
+ "name": "University of Texas at Arlington",
+ "sameAs": [
+ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Arlington",
+ "https://www.uta.edu/"
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
+ "name": "University of Mumbai",
+ "sameAs": [
+ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mumbai",
+ "https://mu.ac.in/"
+ ]
+ }
+ ],
+ "hasCredential": [
+ {
+ "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
+ "name": "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner",
+ "credentialCategory": "certification",
+ "validFrom": "2023",
+ "recognizedBy": {
+ "@type": "Organization",
+ "name": "Amazon Web Services",
+ "sameAs": "https://aws.amazon.com"
+ }
+ },
+ {
+ "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
+ "name": "M.S. Computer Science",
+ "credentialCategory": "degree",
+ "startDate": "2011",
+ "endDate": "2013",
+ "recognizedBy": {
+ "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
+ "name": "University of Texas at Arlington",
+ "sameAs": "https://www.uta.edu/"
+ }
+ },
+ {
+ "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
+ "name": "B.E. Computer Engineering",
+ "credentialCategory": "degree",
+ "startDate": "2007",
+ "endDate": "2011",
+ "recognizedBy": {
+ "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
+ "name": "University of Mumbai",
+ "sameAs": "https://mu.ac.in/"
+ }
+ }
+ ],
+ "hasCertification": {
+ "@type": "Certification",
+ "name": "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner",
+ "certificationStatus": "CertificationActive",
+ "issuedBy": {
+ "@type": "Organization",
+ "name": "Amazon Web Services",
+ "url": "https://aws.amazon.com",
+ "sameAs": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services"
+ },
+ "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/"
+ },
+ "description": "Ninad Malvankar is the Architect at Upstox, India's leading discount brokerage and fintech platform. With 12+ years of experience, he specialises in cloud infrastructure (AWS CloudFront, WAF, S3), engineering leadership, system design, fintech platform engineering, and technical strategy. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. M.S. Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington (2013). Based in Mumbai, India.",
+ "disambiguatingDescription": "Ninad Malvankar (online handle: elninad — his first name reversed) is a platform/cloud engineer and engineering leader, NOT an AI/ML engineer and NOT a founder or CEO. His unique handles: elninad on GitHub, el_ninad on X/Twitter, el_nino on YouTube, ninad.malvankar23 on Medium. Based in Mumbai, India.",
+ "identifier": [
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "URL", "value": "https://ninadmalvankar.com/" },
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "GitHub", "value": "elninad" },
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "Twitter", "value": "el_ninad" },
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "LinkedIn", "value": "ninadmalvankar" },
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "Medium", "value": "ninad.malvankar23" },
+ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "YouTube", "value": "el_nino" }
+ ],
+ "contactPoint": {
+ "@type": "ContactPoint",
+ "contactType": "professional inquiry",
+ "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninadmalvankar/",
+ "availableLanguage": "English"
+ },
+ "email": "ninad.malvankar23@gmail.com",
+ "dateModified": "2026-06-28",
+ "usageInfo": "https://ninadmalvankar.com/ai.txt"
+}
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 8e81afc..9344a2a 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@ Allow: /
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
Allow: /
-# Brave AI
+# Brave Search (Bravebot is the documented token; Brave-AI kept as fallback)
+User-agent: Bravebot
+Allow: /
+
User-agent: Brave-AI
Allow: /
@@ -159,6 +162,113 @@ Allow: /
User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /
+# OpenAI SearchGPT / search crawler
+User-agent: SearchGPT
+Allow: /
+
+User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Anthropic / Fable AI
+User-agent: Fable-Fetcher
+Allow: /
+
+# Firecrawl (AI agent frameworks)
+User-agent: Firecrawl
+Allow: /
+
+# Internet Archive — preserve the portfolio
+User-agent: ia_archiver
+Allow: /
+
+# Archive.org
+User-agent: archive.org_bot
+Allow: /
+
+# Apify (AI scraping platform)
+User-agent: ApifyBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Common Crawl (used by academic AI research)
+User-agent: CCBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Exa AI (semantic search for AI)
+User-agent: Exa
+Allow: /
+
+# Webz.io / Webhose (AI data feeds)
+User-agent: Webzio
+Allow: /
+
+# Liner (AI highlighting and search)
+User-agent: Liner
+Allow: /
+
+# Mojeek (privacy-focused search engine)
+User-agent: MojeekBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Naver (South Korean search engine + AI)
+User-agent: Yeti
+Allow: /
+
+# Baidu (Chinese AI search)
+User-agent: Baiduspider
+Allow: /
+
+# Yandex (Russian AI search)
+User-agent: YandexBot
+Allow: /
+
+# DuckDuckGo
+User-agent: DuckDuckBot
+Allow: /
+
+# DeepSeek AI
+User-agent: DeepSeekBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Kimi (Moonshot AI)
+User-agent: Kimi-User
+Allow: /
+
+# Tavily AI (used by AI agent frameworks)
+User-agent: TavilyBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Exa semantic search (bot variant)
+User-agent: ExaBot
+Allow: /
+
+# Claude Code (Anthropic agentic tool)
+User-agent: claude-code
+Allow: /
+
+# Amazon AI / Bedrock
+User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
+Allow: /
+
+User-agent: bedrockbot
+Allow: /
+
+# Google AI agents (2025-2026)
+User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
+Allow: /
+
+User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
+Allow: /
+
+User-agent: Google-Agent
+Allow: /
+
+User-agent: GoogleAgent-URLContext
+Allow: /
+
+# Meta web indexer
+User-agent: meta-webindexer
+Allow: /
+
Sitemap: https://ninadmalvankar.com/sitemap.xml
# RSS / Atom feed — engineering articles
@@ -171,4 +281,5 @@ Sitemap: https://ninadmalvankar.com/sitemap.xml
# ai.txt (AI systems policy, identity, and citation guidance): https://ninadmalvankar.com/ai.txt
# llms.txt (LLM-readable compact profile summary): https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms.txt
# llms-full.txt (LLM-readable extended profile with full career detail): https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms-full.txt
+# profile.jsonld (machine-readable JSON-LD Person entity): https://ninadmalvankar.com/profile.jsonld
# humans.txt (human attribution): https://ninadmalvankar.com/humans.txt
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index 59c2e94..28f268a 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -2,32 +2,38 @@
https://ninadmalvankar.com/
- 2026-06-15
+ 2026-06-28
weekly
1.0
https://ninadmalvankar.com/feed.xml
- 2026-05-30
+ 2026-06-28
weekly
0.5
https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms.txt
- 2026-06-15
+ 2026-06-28
monthly
0.4
https://ninadmalvankar.com/llms-full.txt
- 2026-06-15
+ 2026-06-28
monthly
0.4
https://ninadmalvankar.com/ai.txt
- 2026-06-15
+ 2026-06-28
monthly
0.3
+
+ https://ninadmalvankar.com/profile.jsonld
+ 2026-06-28
+ monthly
+ 0.4
+