Year 1 (Aug 2016 – May 2017)

• participated in various intra-college programming competitions, attained top 10 ranks
• participated in intra-college aptitude test Battle of Brains, attained Rank 1 (800+ participants)
• attended classes by Deepak Aggarwal (senior student) through DotC – The Programming Club
• started a WhatsApp group to share technical news and resources, titled Programmers’ Tavern

Year 1 Vacations (June 2017 – July 2017)

• started attending technical meetups hosted by local communities – ILUGD, PyDelhi, PyLadies, LinuxChixIndia

Year 2 (Aug 2017 – May 2018)

• participated in Smart India Hackathon 2017
• participated in international coding contests at CodeChef, ACM-ICPC 2017
• attained Codechef Rating 1649 (3 Star Coder)
• carried forward the efforts by Deepak Aggarwal by inheriting DotC- The Programming Club under their insightful guidance and with the support of knowledgeable fellows
• frequent solo participant in inter-college hackathons, attained top 5 ranks
• attended Google DevFest Delhi 2017
• attended major technical meetups (collaboration meetups/ Google-hosted meetups)

Vacations (June 2018 – July 2018)

• attended DGPLUG’s Summer Training 2018, focusing on Open Source, Privacy and Software Freedom
• participated in various monthly Devsprints hosted by PyDelhi, a local technical community promoting Python applications

Year 3 (Aug 2018 – June 2019)

• contributed to pandas, the Python Data Analysis Library contributions
• attended PyCon India 2018 (Hyderabad), the premier Python Conference in India
  • met fellow students and mentors from the DGPLUG’s Summer Training
  • conference ticket sponsored by Kushal Das , my mentor at DGPLUG Summer Training 2018 (thank you!)
  • met the reviewer for my contributions to pandas, Marc Garcia at the conference
• started contributing to KDE Connect, a personal devices integration project
• attended Google DevFest Delhi 2018
• attended Google Cloud OnBoard Delhi 2018
• participated in many inter-college hackathons hosted by college communities
• started volunteering at ILUG-D events and helping out juniors within technical communities and in college
• founded a new community within the college – OpenCodeMAIT – to promote and encourage the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software with some good and knowledgeable friends

Vacations (June 2019 – July 2019)

• attended and volunteered at JetBrains Day Delhi 2019, a premier one-day event organized by the JetBrains team
• attended and volunteered at Drupal Camp Delhi 2019, one of the largest Drupal events across India
• participated in Google Summer of Code 2019 as student/ mentee for the project Porting KDE Connect to Windows details/ my project report

Year 4 (Aug 2019 – Aug 2020)

• continued contributing to KDE Community projects (Craft, KDE Connect, others)
• attended and volunteered at Akademy 2019 (Milan, Italy), the international summit for all KDE developers
• attended and volunteered at PyCon India 2019 (Chennai) report link
• organized ILUG-D meetups for the community with the help of amazing volunteers
• attended and volunteered at Google DevFest Delhi 2019, DebUtsav Delhi 2019, various local meetups
• organized Hacktoberfest 2019 local event within the college premises under the banner of OpenCodeMAIT
• organized conf.kde.in 2020, the annual KDE Conference in India. report link
• passed on the community helm for OpenCodeMAIT to Manav Sethi and Jasmeet Singh (juniors) (good luck!)
• completed a 4 month remote internship as SDE Intern at SoStronk (Remote/Bangalore)

After Year 4 (June 2020)

• participated in Google Summer of Code 2020 as co-mentor for the project Adding MMS Support to KDE Connect details/ Aniket’s project report
• bestowed with the honor “Star Performer of the Batch of 2020” in the college yearbook.
• looking for opportunities now

Acknowledgements

• Thanks, Dad, for your unwavering support in all my endeavors and choices.
• Mom, you’re not just a wonderful mother but also a friend, teacher, cook, and housekeeper – thank you for every single day of the past 7300+ days!
• Bro, your timely advice has been invaluable at every crucial life step.
• Sis, you’re my emotional anchor, and I’m thankful for your unwavering support.
• Vishnu, thanks for being the dependable friend from childhood.
• Saurabh sir, you introduced me to GeeksForGeeks and were the college teacher I aspired for.
• Deepak Aggarwal, thank you for introducing me to standard C++ programming.
• Neeraj Joshi, your teachings in competitive programming and friendship mean a lot.
• Bittoo Aggarwal, your encouragement to promote DotC’s work has been inspiring.
• Arpna Joshi, thank you for motivating me to attend technical meetups.
• Rohin Bhandari, your encouragement to become a recruit-able engineer has been invaluable.
• Rachit Dua, for introducing me to WebD and bootstrap.
• Rajat Goyal, your lessons on regularity and stress management have stayed with me.
• Rajat Pachauri, Anand Rai, Paras Rawat, your support during low times is cherished.
• Rituka Patwal, you’ve been a constant emotional support during my college years.
• Kushal Das, your introduction to Free and Open Source Culture was transformative.
• Shakthi Kannan, your lessons in self-motivation and industriousness shaped me.
• Jason Braganza, your insights on happiness and time management are treasured.
• Shivam Chaudhary, Nikhil, thanks for being the technical community friends I sought.
• Raju Devidas, you’ve shown me the balance between humility and happiness.
• Abhishek Singh, your motivation has driven me to do good in life.
• KDE Community, for the incredible GSoC experience and the chance to meet mentors in Italy.
• Prof (Dr.) Namita Gupta (CSE) and Dr. M.L. Sharma (IT), thank you for guiding my in-college event proposals.
• Simon Redman, thanks for being the mentor I hoped for in KDE Connect team.
• Hannah, your friendship in the KDE Community is valued.
• Albert Vaca, your humility and awesomeness in Italy were unforgettable.
• KDE e.V. Board, for believing in me and letting me host conf.kde.in 2020.
• Shantanu Tushar, thanks for being the mentor I wished for in the KDE Community.
• Manav Sethi, mentoring you was a wish fulfilled.
• Punya Aachman, your motivation for modern C++ practice and programming camaraderie are appreciated.
• Kushagra Arora, Raghav Bali, Nobel Dang, Shubham Mutreja, thanks for being the gaming friends I hoped for.