Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos

• Added new features to CC Search Extension to make it a competent and lightweight alternative to CC Search. The enhancements were targeted at heavy consumers of Openly-Licensed Images. Since the enhancements, the number of weekly users has grown 2 fold (10,000+ weekly users on Chrome, Firefox, and Opera combined).
• Successfully migrated to CC-Catalog API v1.0 and coordinated with a UX designer and CC engineers to integrate Vocabulary (design system for web-facing Creative Commons apps).
• Improvements to the bookmarks section: Scaled it to hold 6x the number of images and also Implemented caching. Refactored the sync storage schema to make it more robust and extensible.
• Published backward compatible code to production and also added support for one more browser - Microsoft Edge.

Sep 2019 – Feb 2020 · 5 mos

• Contributed features and patches to the Lektor based CC Open-Source Blog. Was designated the role of "Project Collaborator" which let me triage issues and review PRs of other contributors on that project.
• Site: https://opensource.creativecommons.org/
• Github repo: https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source
• Became the "Project Maintainer" of the Search Extension. Engaged in discussions with users and contributors to incorporate various new features and recommendations. The project has 33+ code contributors.
• I also handle the addon-store accounts/portals of all the 4 browsers which I use to release new versions and manage the extension in production. There have been 17+ releases.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

• Planned, proposed, and developed CC Search Extension, an Open-Source Cross-Browser extension. It lets users search, filter, and use images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
• Did intuitive integration with major portions of CC Catalog API (REST API for accessing public domain digital media).
• Implemented features like one-click easy attribution, options page for custom settings, image bookmarks section, exporting and importing bookmarks, dark mode, and much more.
• I have been developing and maintaining the project since its inception. The project was started from scratch during GSoC 2019 and the first version was released on Chrome and Firefox in October 2019. Now it has 30+ code contributors, 17+ releases, 10,000+ weekly users, and availability on 4 browser add-on stores (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge).