User:Sarupbanskota/CV

Contact Information

Name: Sarup Banskota

Address: E-101, Vasistha Bhavanam, Amrita University, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, TN - 641112.

Email: sbanskota08 AT gmail DOT com

Blog: thirstyforcola

IRC Nick / Channel: banas on #fedora-design

Education

Amrita University, Coimbatore - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering.

• Expected year of graduation - 2015.
• Currently, have a CGPA of 8.2 (out of 10).
• Relevant courses undertaken so far:
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Data Structures and Basic Algorithms

Skills

• Programming Languages:
  • Have worked with for at least a year: C, C++, Python.
  • Currently working on: Ruby.
• Web:
  • Have worked with for at least a year: HTML, CSS, basic jQuery, Bootstrap.
  • Currently working on: Rails, JavaScript, semantic.gs
• Platforms: Windows, Linux (currently using Fedora)
• Other relevant skills: git, UI Design

Experience

• co-author, GlitterGallery
  • • Was a Google Summer of code student with Fedora in 2013
• Freelance Work
  • Developer, elightgroup
    • Responsible for developing the website, with some supervision.
    • Technologies in use: HTML/CSS/jQuery/Wordpress/PHP
  • Developer, banglewala.in.
    • Responsible for designing website individually in a two day period.
    • Technologies used: HTML/CSS/jQuery/Wordpress.
• Academic Project Work
  • Amrita Dispensary Manager
    • Created as a team of three, and developed over a three month period.
    • Done as part of the Object Oriented Programming Lab course.
    • Responsible for:
      • Modelling of the project - use cases, class diagrams and relations.
      • Coding modules for the Records to be stored, retrieved, updated and deleted by the admin.
  • Automatic Teller Machine - Programming study
    • Created as a team of five, and developed over a two month period.
    • Done as part of the Introduction to Programming Lab course.
    • Responsible for:
      • Modelling of the project - use cases, structures to use.
      • Debugging C code that other team members had written.
• Open Source Contributions
  • Built a simple UI for the Mozilla webRTC landing page.
    • The page is responsive, and uses Twitter Bootstrap.
  • Working on improving a patch written by me for their automation team.
    • Involves improving a testing library written in JavaScript and updating tests that use it.
  • Submitted patchesto Glitter Gallery, a project under Fedora Design.

Awards/Recognitions

• National Finalist with Top 15 finish, SecurIT CTF - Capture the Flag Contest
  • Special edition of India CTF - Popular as India's first CTF series.
  • Intermediate rounds comprising of traditional CTF-style qualifiers on topics like Binary, Web, Unix, Forensics.
  • On site Finals in Teams of four - responsible for maintaining team's web security and unix strength.
• International Informatics Olympiad
  • Have been a gold medalist (awarded to toppers of region) in 2008.
  • Have figured in the top 200 Olympiad (International) ranks in 2009.

Leadership/Organizations/Events

• Student Partner at Microsoft
  • Primarily involved in learning and promoting Microsoft's Open Source Azure.
• Volunteer at Tech{know}logy and FOSS Club, Amrita University
  • Helped seniors conduct a session on Python, FOSS and general Programming for College freshmen.
  • Currently in the process of blogging a series of posts for people (esp college juniors) to learn more about FOSS
• Design Team Lead, Astha, The Science Club
  • Responsible for managing and helping the design team with promotion material for various events for the club.
  • Some of my work can be found on my blog.

Events/Conferences attended

• Was sponsored to attend SecurIT, the First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things, held in August 2012.
• Attended FOSS.in in December 2012.
• Was part of HasGeekevent on How Open Source can help boost Startups, in the Startup Festival, March 2013.