(Mostly) Python and C++ programmer interested in database systems and just about everything else! Welcome to my corner of the Internet! See my Medium profile for my other articles.
Worked on an internal Golang Slackbot for automating the onboarding process of new devs
Built a triaging portal for recruiters that runs automated hygiene checks on code submissions for backend developer candidates, using Ruby, ExpressJS and Docker
Chirps is a Twitter bot framework built using Python, Twitter’s API, Postgres and a bit of nltk
I use it to manage my own Twitter account (about 8k followers), alongwith multiple business accounts
Retweets and follows people with provided active keywords, tracks personalities like Elon Musk and replies to them, and tweets latest tech-related news using web scraping and NLP
Uses the generator-of-generators pattern to have pluggable scrapers as sources of feeds that can be tweeted
Dec 2018, Nov 2019 - CNCF scholarships to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, WA and San Diego, CA respectively
Nov 2018 - Selected in Facebook’s PyTorch Scholarship Challenge
Oct 2018 - Usenix Association scholarship for 32 nd LISA conference in Nashville, TN
June 2018 - Linux Foundation scholarship to attend Open Source Summit in Tokyo, Japan
2014 - Stood 1st in the city of Bharuch for National Cyber Olympiad
2011 - Stood 2nd in Gujarat state for Navsarjan Art Contest
Other Achievements
Feb 2019 - Ranked 58th in India at Google Hash Code 2019
Aug 2018 - Blogs on Medium crossed 200k reads
Sept 2017 - Reached top 10% Python answerers globally on Stackoverflow
Skills
Programming Languages
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript
Golang
Ruby
VHDL
Matlab
Frameworks, Web and Otherwise
Flask
Django
React
Laravel
Pandas
Numpy
PyTorch
Tensorflow
Database Management Systems
Postgres
MySQL
MongoDB
FoundationDB
Other Tools
Docker
SQLAlchemy (ORM)
Git
Travis CI
Circle CI
Cloud Platforms
AWS
Oracle Cloud (NextGen)
Google Cloud Platform
Heroku
Interests
Apart from computers 💻, I’m into drones (fly ‘em as a hobby), nonfiction books 📚(+ Dan Brown), badminton 🏸, UFOs 🛸, geopolitics 🌎, late night talk shows 📺, and travel 🛫.
I’m currently reading “The Master Algorithm” by Pedro Domingos.