Atharva Amritkar

I am Atharva Amritkar from India, I have been contributing to open source for 7 years now. Have also made individual open source projects and participated in hackathons. In my university we have set up a Community called Kharagpur Open Source Society to spread open source awareness amongst the people in the university. We conduct workshops and events to share the culture of OSS with the KGP folks. We conduct KWoC(Kharagpur Winter of Code) which is a winter long contribution program for new contributors. We conducted an Open Source Summit, where we invited people from all around India about their experiences with Open Source Software. I have been exploring web3 since 2 years now and have been enjoying it a lot.

I have made some applications using solidity and it's been really fun of an experience. I enjoyed reading it's white paper and am looking forward on working on it. I have also worked with polygon and joined several DAO's. I have also completed Summer of Bitcoin and Google Summer of Code projects, also several other web3 hackathons. Me and my team have won several cash prizes in web3 hackathons. My experience with Ethereum has been Moderate to Advanced.

I have won several hackathons and few of the major are:
ETHIndia'22 - StackOS track winner
Reef Hackathon - Overall Winner
Solana Hack Day - Runner Up

I have contributed to many orgs such as:
Gentoo Linux - Contributor and Maintainer
EndeavourOS - Community Editions Developer
EESSI - Adding RISC-V Support to Compatibility Layer
NixOS - Contributor
Fedimint - Developer
Nix-Bitcoin - Created modules for Fedimint and ln-gateway
NGI-Nix - Packaging and DevOps work.

Participated in several open source programs such as:
Google Summer of Code - Worked with Gentoo Linux and EESSI
Summer of Bitcoin - Contributed with Fedimint and Nix-Bitcoin
Summer of Nix - Contributed to NLNet, Jitsi, NixOS
Kharagpur Winter of Code - Organizer
Girlscript Winter of Contributing - Best 2 Mentor

I have also given talks in Summits:
EESSI Monthly Summit: RISC-V support for Gentoo Prefix and Compatibility Layer (May’22, June’22, July ’22, August’22)
Lightning Talks, IIT Kgp: The Beauty of Unix Philosophy (Sept ’21)