Work Experience

Kandra Labs

Sep 2023 — Present

Software Engineer

Google Summer of Code

May 2023 — Sep 2023

Student Developer

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

Zulip

Oct 2022 — April 2023

Open Source Contributor — Part-time

• Developed the "unmute topics in muted streams" feature, highlighted in the Zulip 7.0 release.

Ques10

April 2021 — July 2021

Backend Developer Intern

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

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering — NIT Hamirpur (2023)
HINT 5.0 — Won the "Best Overall Design" award; Top 5 team.
Prodyogiki — Team secured second position in robotics event "Lost - Lander".
Stack Overflow — Reached 150k+ people with 1000+ reputation points. Profile.
Team Ojas — Led an online treasure hunt event which was a huge success.
GDSC — Part of the first-ever Google Developer Student Club team at college.