Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

• Scaling GitHub's community efforts for GitTogether communities. Focusing on bringing experts to the platform as part of industry-based meetups & building a place for professionals to gather, network, and share their collective expertise. Executed new innovative events on AI Governance, AI Safety, Product Management, GenAI, and Open-Source Strategy. I don't work for GitHub.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Building an open-source Hardware-in-the-loop (HiLT) system enabling balenaOS to fully automate testing of each build of balenaOS on an actual IoT device at scale before release. My ownership includes our open-source hardware automation platform, Autokit, hardware test system, Leviathan, the test pipeline which manages autokits & day-to-day debugging automated jobs for devices under test.
• Additionally, maintaining balena base images builds pipelines, docs, and issues backlog.

Oct 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Remote

• Took ownership of docs, shouldering responsibilities of content strategy, growth, community interactions, and breaking grounds on making docs a first-class citizen at the intersection of people, product, and culture at the company.

Apr 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Standardizing testing for IoT boards at scale using autokits.
• Scaling from manual testing to enabling automatic deployments of balenaOS operating system from no devices to 8+ devices in 10 months
• Saved hundreds of hours of engineering time by automating balenaOS release cycle increasing the development velocity.

Dec 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs · Remote · On-site

• Worn many hats proudly to lead content, tech, communication & documentation effort for PyCon India conference as a volunteer for the past 4 years.
• The conference started with just 300 attendees joining us for our first iteration in 2009. The grassroots conference led by volunteers has grown to become the biggest Python conference in India. This year, the mega-event went international and online having 2000 attendees from 13+ countries.

Apr 2019 – Oct 2019 · 6 mos · Remote

• Google Summer of Code is a 12-week remote program, where students get paired with mentors from open-source organizations to work on projects, gain experience and sharpen their skills. I worked with The Scrapy Project under Python Software Foundation, specifically on their new testing library, Spidermon built for the popular web crawling framework, Scrapy.
• Spearheaded TDD of Cerberus validation feature in Spidermon
• Boosted validation efficiency up to 40%, reducing crawl time
• Wrote docs, end-to-end tests, new CI/CD pipelines for Spidermon.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

• Mentored pre-university students age 13 to 17 to take part in Google Code-in: The global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have.

Apr 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

• Managing outreach efforts of the non-profit. Helping software reach students worldwide through meetups, conferences, and summits.
• Working closely with the activity team of Sugar Labs to push change, fixes, and updates to activities hosted on the ASLO server.
• List of conference/meetups covered by Sugar Labs Outreach Team in 2018-19
• PyCon US (Talk selected @ Vipul Gupta, Samson Goddy - Reinventing Education with Python)
• Organised a stand at FOSDEM'20
• Organized sessions and lightning talks in PyCon SG, PyCon UK
• Represented SG in Sustain Summit 2018
• Gave a talk in Youth Zone of Mozfest 2018 about Sugar
• Google Code-In Trip/GSoC Mentor Summit/GSoC London Meetup
• Linux Foundation's Open Source Summits
• Meetups organized in India, Nigeria, Tokyo to extend Sugar Labs reach onto more contributors. and supporters.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

• # Mozfest has been one of the premier, more inclusive events in the world taking the conversation forward on important issues of Internet health, privacy, and security.
• # Facilitated session in youth zone of Mozfest 2018 with 3000+ attendees including Tim Berners Lee.
• # Granted full scholarship covering Tickets, Travel, and accommodation.

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 · 3 mos · Remote

• PyCon India is Python's premier conference in India and 2018 is its 10-year anniversary.
• I took up the position of Development manager in the volunteer-run mega event for the team that handles more than 2000 people in attendance every year.
• My tasks were to oversee the development of the official website (https://in.pycon.org) and ensure code quality through code reviews,
• Curate content and maintain the blog for updates and promotion
• Plan and speed up social-media outreach with the use of platforms and bots (Reached an audience of more than 30k total)
• Taking new measures and promoting change by Convince My Boss page, blog summations and much more.
• GitHub links - https://goo.gl/EiPRN2 and https://goo.gl/acgrf9
• https://in.pycon.org/2018

Apr 2018 – Nov 2025 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Remote

• Mixster fills gaps in your developer education, internal culture, and hiring efforts: https://dub.sh/mixster

Apr 2018 – Oct 2018 · 6 mos · Remote (Not a employee of Google)

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open-source software projects. I worked on building an end-to-end tool for activity maintenance in Sugar Labs called Sugar Port.