Personal Information
- e-mail : sayan[AT]hackerearth[DOT]com
- Primary blog : http://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org
- Secondary blog : http://fosswithme.wordpress.com
- IRC nick : sayan
About Me
I am a Pythonista and an open source enthusiast/hacker. I like to build up things using Python and Django. When I am not coding, I can be found reading novels, doing photography, playing with colors or playing Counter Strike.
Experience
- Google Summer of Code, 2013
- Intern at HackerEarth, January 2013 - Present
- Vocational Training at Tata Steel, June - July 2012
- Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, August 2012 - June 2013
The journey to awesomeness this summer is yet to start, but I have already started to feel the heat.
It's an awesome experience to work as an intern at HackerEarth. I got introduced to a plethora of new technologies all of a sudden. I went through a steep learning curve and it finally paid off. I worked on Implementing login system, Privacy settings in Codetable. I also worked on implementing Analytics for coding challenges in HackerEarth.
It was a different experience as a whole with all the new kind of technologies peeping in. I mainly had to deal with the Cloud Archtecture and automate the present manual car parking management system. I learnt about the technologies like REST/SOAP API, XML, MySQL and JSP.
I am working on a project to "Implement Effective Intrusion Detection System in Cloud Architecture". This project is in progress under the IBM Global Remote Mentorship Program.
Projects
- Chitra: Application which would find duplicate digital image files in a directory.
- RCC (collaborative project)
- wordgroupz (upstream contribution)
- wordcollections (upstream contribution)
- Askbot (upstream contribution)
- Transifex (upstream contribution)
- Dorrie (upstream contribution)
- Darkserver (upstream contribution)
Skills
Python Django Linux HTML CSS GTK+ Git Mercurial
Interests
Open Source Web Development Cloud Computing Fedora Operating System Fine Arts Photography
Education
- Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
B.Tech in Computer Science and Technology, June 2013
West Bengal University of Technology
- Jamshedpur Public School
All India Senior School Certificate Examination, May 2009
Central Board of Secondary Education
- Jamshedpur Public School
All India Secondary School Examination, May 2007
Central Board of Secondary Education
Awards
- Winner at Code-Cracker, a programming competition at E-Week 2011.
- Winner at Tech-Innovation, a college-level science exhibition in E-Week 2010.
- Winner of Counter Strike 1.6 at HORIZON 2012, a National Level Technical Fest.
- Winner of 2nd Prize in LinQuest, a Linux Quiz in National level Technical Fest, HORIZON 2012.
- Winner of 2nd Prize in Juego Extremo 2011, a college-level game fest.
Activities
- Local coordinator and member Durgapur Linux User's Group (dgplug).
- Technical Translator of Hindi Localization for Transifex, VLC Media Player, Mozilla Firefox.
- Member of organizing team of MozCamp Feb' 2013, Duragpur and Mozilla Translation Sprint Mar' 2013.
- Member of organizing team of E-Week 2011 organized by NEN.
- Member of organizing team of HORIZON 2012 and HORIZON 2013, a National level Technical Fest.
References
- Kushal Das, Software Engineer at Red Hat, kushaldas@gmail.com
- Ratnadeep Debnath, Software Engineer at ibibo Web Pvt. Ltd., rtnpro@gmail.com