Work Experience
Leading team transformation and platform redesign while mentoring 4 engineers and establishing engineering excellence standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of 4 engineers through pair programming and architectural guidance
- Drive project execution and establish engineering excellence standards
- Collaborate with design, product, and platform teams on technical specifications
- Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction initiatives
- Maintain all karya web applications and services
Key Achievements:
- Reduced PR queue from 50+ to under 10, improving team velocity by 300%
- Kalai Dashboard contributed to securing $1M Google.org grant, presented at Google I/O 2024
Impact:
Reduced PR queue from 50+ to under 10, improving team velocity by 300%
Career Journey
3 positions • 2 years, 6 months
Technologies Used:
Career Timeline at Karya Inc
2 years, 6 months of growth and impact • 3 positions
Lead Webtech Engineer (SDE-III) (Current)
Leading team transformation and platform redesign while mentoring 4 engineers and establishing engineering excellence standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of 4 engineers through pair programming and architectural guidance
- Drive project execution and establish engineering excellence standards
- Collaborate with design, product, and platform teams on technical specifications
- Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction initiatives
- Maintain all karya web applications and services
Technologies Used:
Impact:
Reduced PR queue from 50+ to under 10, improving team velocity by 300%
Software Development Engineer
Architected and delivered multiple high-impact frameworks including the Kalai Reports system that contributed to securing $1M Google.org grant.
Key Responsibilities:
- Led complete rewrite and redesign of the Karya Web Portal
- Engineered the Kalai natural language querying dashboard for database reporting
- Developed full-stack permissions framework with ACL + RBAC for the web portal
- Created a headless, schema-driven form generation library
Technologies:
Impact:
The Kalai Dashboard Contributed to securing $1M Google.org grant, presented at Google I/O 2024
Software Development Intern
Built foundational desktop application and communication tools for complex data collection workflows.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineered desktop application from ground up for complex worker tasks
- Developed twilio based conferencing tool for conversational data collection
- Implemented audio processing and transcription features
Technologies:
Impact:
Established foundation for all future desktop-based data collection tasks
Conducted cutting-edge research in AI and Computer Vision under confidential projects at Samsung's research division.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conducted research in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
- Developed machine learning models for confidential projects
- Collaborated with senior researchers on PRISM initiatives
Impact:
Contributed to confidential research projects (details protected by NDA)
Technologies Used:
Open Source Experience
Contributing Rust packages to official Debian repositories and participating in the global Debian community.
Key Responsibilities:
- Author and maintain sponsored Rust packages for official Debian repositories
- Participate in Debian community development processes
- Take part in Debian conferences for key signing and community engagement
Impact:
8 binary packages available in Debian sid and trixie distributions
Technologies Used:
Architecting the future of Regolith's Wayland ecosystem and representing the project at major conferences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Direct architectural roadmap for Regolith's Wayland ecosystem
- Maintain and develop packages for Regolith Linux
- Represent project at Linux conferences and meetings
Key Achievements:
- Got invited to Ubuntu Summit 2022 for adoption of Reglith as a official flavour of ubuntu
- Attended DebConf'24 for key signing and package sponsorship discussions
- Got selected for representing regolith in IndiaFOSS 2025
Impact:
Regolith selected as upcoming official Ubuntu flavour
Technologies Used:
Selected for two consecutive years, guiding contributors on complex projects through architectural guidance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mentor Google Summer of Code contributors on complex technical projects
- Provide architectural guidance and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Guide project planning and execution for open source initiatives
Impact:
Successfully mentored 2 contributors across 2 years
Career Journey
3 positions • 3 years, 6 months
Technologies Used:
Career Timeline at CCExtractor Development
3 years, 6 months of growth and impact • 3 positions
Google Summer of Code Mentor (Current)
Selected for two consecutive years, guiding contributors on complex projects through architectural guidance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mentor Google Summer of Code contributors on complex technical projects
- Provide architectural guidance and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Guide project planning and execution for open source initiatives
Technologies Used:
Impact:
Successfully mentored 2 contributors across 2 years
Google Summer of Code Contributor (2023)
Spearheaded the migration of Regolith Linux to Wayland
Key Responsibilities:
- Developed a high performance wayland client for VR Virtual Desktop Streaming to Meta Quest
- Interacted with native wayland protocols
- The project has 50+ starts on Github
Technologies:
Google Summer of Code Contributor (2022)
Spearheaded the migration of Regolith Linux to Wayland
Key Responsibilities:
- Developed and integrated Wayland support for Regolith Linux
- Implemented D-Bus communication for seamless desktop environment integration
- Contributed to architectural design and implementation of Wayland features
- Packaged and maintained Rust applications for Debian
Technologies:
Impact:
Successful migration of entire desktop environment to modern display server