Sarupbanskota/CV

Contact Information

Name: Sarup Banskota

Address: C-301, Agasthya Bhavanam, Amrita University, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, TN - 641112.

Email: sbanskota08 AT gmail DOT com

IRC Nick / Channel: banas on #fedora-design

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.