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* Experience

** GSoC Mentor for [[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4973810873270272][Zulip]]
*** May 2018 - Present (ends Aug 2018)
Mentoring a student to help build a terminal client for Zulip using it's API.

** Software Developer at [[http://akvo.org][Akvo]]
*** Sep 2016 - Present
Full-stack developer for RSR --- a Django based reporting framework for
organizations doing developmental work
- Contributed quite a few of performance improvements to make the site snappier
- General code quality improvements with better testing, apart from adding
  features and fixing bugs.
** Machine Learning Engineer at [[http://infilect.com][Infilect]]
*** Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Worked on a fashion assistant leveraging deep neural networks for image based
search and retrieval
- Learnt about CNNs and became comfortable training models using Torch and
  Caffe
- Built a visual similarity based search system
- Improved the data collection platform for the product database
** Recurser at the [[https://recurse.com][Recurse Center]]
*** Jun - Aug, 2014
Spent 12-weeks in a collaborative, self-directed, programming retreat. Here's a
 [[https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/recurse-center/][daily journal]] of what I did there.
- Learnt about the internals of Python and built an inspection tool for CPython
  code
- Worked with hardware and helped build a LED spectrum analyzer among other
  things

** Software Developer at [[http://www.enthought.com][Enthought]]
*** Sep 2011 - May 2014
Primarily worked on [[https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/][Canopy]] -- a Qt based development environment for
Scientists/Engineers.
- Helped design and build the first cut of an application platform for Python
  based apps
- Acquired some taste for good software design
** Research Associate at [[http://fossee.in][FOSSEE]], IIT Bombay
*** Jul 2009 - Jul 2011
Helped increase the adoption of Python in college through training.
- Designed and developed material for a course on [[https://github.com/FOSSEE/sees][Software Engineering for
  Engineers and Scientists]]
- Helped organize, design and conduct workshops spread across India
* Projects

I contribute to a number of FOSS projects in varying degrees. [[https://github.com/punchagan][GitHub]] provides a
fairly comprehensive overview.
** [[https://github.com/punchagan/cinspect][cinspect]]
*** Python
~cinspect~ attempts to extend Python's built-in inspect module to add
"inspection" for Python's builtins and other objects not written in Python.  It
uses ~libclang~ to parse C-code and indexes it to allow looking up the source
of the required objects, using an ~inspect~-like API.
** [[https://github.com/recursecenter/blaggregator][Blaggregator]]
*** Python, Django, Javascript, CSS
A Django powered site that aggregates blog posts of Recursers from all over the
web. I've added a bunch of features to it, and am the current maintainer.
** [[https://github.com/org2blog/org2blog][org2blog]]
*** Emacs-Lisp
An ~Emacs~ minor mode for blogging to Wordpress that's loved by many users for it's ease of use.
** [[https://github.com/punchagan/crumb][crumb]]
*** Javascript, CSS
An experimental Disqus-like commenting system that (ab)uses GitHub issues as the "database".
** [[https://github.com/getnikola/nikola][Nikola]]
*** Python
A static site & blog generator that I use for my blog -- contributed a handful
of features and bug fixes over time.
* Education
** BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India
*** Aug 2005 - Jun 2009
/B.E.(Hons.), Electrical and Electronics/, GPA: 8.31/10
* Skills
  - Most comfortable with :: Python, Javascript, Emacs Lisp, HTML/CSS, Qt, Git, Linux
  - Have worked with :: Lua, Torch, Caffe, PySpark, R, Octave, Clojure, Go, C, Elm, Bash, LaTeX