Prakhar Pratyush

Work Experience

Sep 2023 - Current

Software Engineer

May 2023 - Sep 2023

Student Developer

Developed the "Follow Topics" feature, a core piece of Zulip's notification subsystem, addressing one of the five most requested features for the project overall.
Built the "@topic mention" feature - Rust community requested feature.
Received an offer to work full-time at the end of the program.

Oct 2022 - April 2023

Open Source Contributor - Part-time

Developed the "unmute topics in muted streams" feature, which was one of the release highlights in the Zulip 7.0 changelog.

April 2021 - July 2021

Backend Developer Intern

Increased post visibility by sitemap generation & submission to Google Search Console.
Implemented the views-based payment feature.
Reduced manual human effort by implementing the Tag Merging Optimization feature.

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering - NIT Hamirpur (2023)
HINT 5.0 - Won the award for "Best Overall Design" and was among the Top 5 teams.
Prodyogiki - Our team secured the second position in a robotics event named "Lost - Lander".
Stack Overflow - I used to actively contribute, ended up with 1000+ reputation points and 150k+ people reached. See profile.
Team Ojas - Led an online treasure hunt event during COVID which was a huge success. Worked on projects, conducted workshops during annual techfest.
Google Developer Student Club - Part of the first-ever GDSC team at our college. Worked on the club's official website development, and conducted workshops.