Introduction and interest in the AI Chatbot project with experience in FastAPI, WebSockets, and Prompt Engineering.

Subject: [GSoC 2026 INTRODUCTION] Neethish S - AI Chatbot Project

Hi @KrisStern and @ShivayLamba,

I am Neethish, a Computer Science student from India. I am very interested in the AI Chatbot project ideas for GSoC 2026.

I have hands-on experience with FastAPI and WebSockets through my project EchoBuddy, where I built a real-time AI assistant with streaming responses. I am also currently a Prompt Engineering Research Intern, where I optimize LLM strategies and evaluation workflows.

I’d love to contribute to the resources-ai-chatbot-plugin. Are there any “good first issues” or specific setup steps I should focus on to get started?