Brief history of me...
2023
- Organized Vidyut 2023 as Core Team Member, Web & Platforms Head, and Sponsor
2022
- Started work at Schneider Electric, Bengaluru as Consultant
2021
- Hosted India's Largest CTF - InCTF Jr, partnering with the CBSE
2020
- Launched CyberLabs - hands-on CyberSecurity learning & practice platform
- Co-founded Traboda CyberLabs with Vipin Pavithran
- Published BayJDO - a browser-based cross-platform file sharing app
- Developed Website & Registration / Payments Portal for Vidyut 2020
2019
- Completed Google Summer of Code Programme with SalesforceI was selected for the 3 months Google Summer of Code 2019 program, with Salesforce Open Source, as student intern for a project that involved migration of the Lightening Design System Library of Salesforce to their React Component Library from HTML/CSS. The tasks also extensively involved ensuring a11y, unit-testing, and I worked under mentors from the Salesforce Engineering Team based out of San Francisco. I completed the program successfully, working in implementing 11 UI components into the project and was awarded a stipend of $3000 by Google.
2018
- First Internship - GMetri XRImpressed with the hackathon project, I was offered a paid internship at GMetri XR, Bengaluru. I joined them for a one-month full-stack developer internship during my winter break. This is where I started learning React. I was involved in building the frontend for their track panel (analytics) for their VR studio platform.
- First Hackathon - Hackference India, BengaluruI participated in my first hackathon - Hackference, in Bengaluru with other members in amFOSS (Akhil & Venu ettan). This was the first time I went to Bengaluru. We built GitLit, a tool to help match FOSS contributors with projects that interest them, and fit their skill-set.
- Started learning Web Development (Seriously)I had been learning web development since 2016, but those were mostly no-code tools. When I joined amFOSS, I got into learning Python, Django & Javascript hands-on, especially by contributing to building the amFOSS CMS - which is an internal platform used to run the club.
- Selected into amFOSS (FOSS@Amrita)amFOSS is a student-run open source & computer science club, and I was selected into it after a rigorous selection process. The club, started in 2007, is very popular and many people come to Amrita just to be a part of it.
- Started UndergradI got enrolled for the B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus.
2004
- First touch with computersMy grandpa was a photographer, and we used to sit together and draw on MS Paint.
2000
- BornMay 27, 2000 in Kerala, India