I have been interested in programming from my early childhood. Making 2D shooting games and solving my mathematics homework by programming a computer, were among the most fun part of my childhood. This passion lead me to pursue an bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIIT Kalyani. At present, my interest lies in code and algorithms that run behind the scenes powering web services and mobile apps, but I don’t mind implementing ML algorithms or creating client-side experiences (especially during Hackathons).
I am always on the lookout for my next hackathon adventure. I have participated in a number of national level hackathons including HACK-A-BIT, Smart India Hackathon, etc. My team ended up winning the 6th Prize at HACK-A-BIT 2018, where we created a news aggregator that utilised machine learning to mitigate effects of media bias. Hackathons are exciting to me, as they provide an opportunity to put myself against my comfort zone, working on things I have no clue about, and many times with people I haven't met before. In the end, if all works out, there is nothing more satisfying than that.
I carry with myself the experience of working at startups. I have interned at a startup. I have learned to how to refine a product idea, how to look for consumer feedback and utilise them. On top of that, I have learned a great deal about managing my workload, communicating effectively with co-workers, and knowing when to ask for help.
I regularly contribute to open source softwares. Through these contributions, I have learned to consider and value others opinion and work, a skill books won’t teach. I have gained experience adapting to different technologies and programming languages. I have contributed to SciPy, FOSSASIA, Origami.JS, Processing DE, etc. I am founder and manager of FOSS Club of IIIT Kalyani, under the banner of which I have organised several college level events.
If you are reading this, it is highly likely that you are reviewing my application, in either case whether you select me or not, do consider giving me suggestions to improve myself. I will be greatly thankful to you. My email is [email protected]
Projects
HackTender
Public Blockchain Based Solution To Make Government Tendering Process More Secure, Transparent, Faster and Efficient.IPFS, HTML, CSS, Flask, BigchainDBSkills
Experience
- The Bomway - Full Stack Developer InternDecember 2018 - January 2019
• Implemented a shopping cart with support for multiple payment gateways, the option to offer discounts on a group of products, ability to calculate international shipping cost, and elegant user interface, which resulted in savings of $3000 every year by replacing the third-party cart plugin.
• Implemented an service to lazily resize images on user request with Amazon S3 as storage backend. - Google Summer of Code - Student Developer (with Python Software Foundation)May 2019 - August 2019
Work Report : https://anubhavp28.github.io/gsoc19-final-report/
• Created and implemented an interface for robots.txt parsers in Scrapy (an open-source python based web scraping framework), allowing users to substitute a more spec compliant parser than the default one.
• Implemented the interface on top of 3 popular existing robots.txt parsers, allowing the majority of Scrapy users to make the switch without having to write a single line of code.
• Developed a fully spec compliant pure-Python robots.txt parser which is also compatible with google’s newly proposed robots.txt specification. The parser performed at least 4x faster than available alternatives. The parser is intended to become the default in Scrapy.