Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• Working full-time on the Zulip open source project.

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Remote

• ➤ Developed the "Follow Topics" feature, a core piece of Zulip's notification subsystem, addressing one of the five most requested features by users.
• ➤ Built the "@topic mention" feature - Rust community requested feature.
• ➤ Miscellaneous: refactoring and bug fixes.

Oct 2022 – May 2023 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• ➤ Developed the highly requested "unmute topics in muted streams" feature, which was one of the release highlights in the Zulip 7.0 changelog.
• 🔗 List of my PRs: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aprakhar1144
• 🔗 Commits: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commits?author=prakhar1144

Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 0 mo

• Implemented Custom Email Backend for the platform
• The requirement was while sending emails, to add each email to the task queue by default and then the celery workers will pick up the tasks. -- Yeah, it's easy, I know.

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• ➤ Worked on developing the Backend for the official website of GDSC NITH
• ・Tech Stack: Golang, Fiber Framework
• ・API for sending Bulk Emails
• ・Configuration to save images on AWS S3
• ・Auth-related API endpoints
• ➤ Conducted workshops

Aug 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 · 3 mos

• ➤ Increased post visibility by 20% through configuring sitemap generation and submission to Google Search Console.
• ➤ Reduced manual human effort by 90% by implementing the Tag Merging Optimization feature.
• ➤ Implemented the views-based payment feature.

Aug 2021 – Sep 2021 · 1 mo

• Published Articles:
• 1. Custom Django Management Commands: (33k views)
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/custom-django-management-commands/
• 2. Django Sitemap Framework:
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/django-sitemap-framework/