[GSoC 2026 PROPOSAL] AI Chatbot for Jenkins Workflow Guidance - Mohammed Saalif Udyawar

Hi @KrisStern, @shivaylamba, @Chirag Gupta and the Jenkins GSoC team,

I am Mohammed Saalif Udyawar, a B.Tech CSE student at KL University. I’ve just submitted my proposal for the AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow project and wanted to introduce myself.

Having worked with Jenkins, Docker, and Apache Tomcat for CI/CD automation, and having built several NLP projects with NLTK, spaCy, and PyTorch, I’m eager to help improve the Jenkins newcomer experience.

Key highlights of my proposal:

  • RAG Architecture: Using FastAPI and PyTorch embeddings for documentation retrieval.

  • Sentiment-Aware Feedback: Utilizing VADER to detect user frustration and adjust bot responses (based on my previous Brand Sentiment Monitoring project).

  • Open Source Experience: I am already a contributor to the Kubernetes (K8s) ecosystem (Merged PR #136450).

I’ve uploaded my full 350-hour roadmap to the portal. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you have on my architecture or integration strategy!

GitHub: https://github.com/MohammedSaalif

Best regards, Mohammed Saalif Udyawar