Vinit Shahdeo

Holopin is a platform that allows you to create and collect digital badges that people love ━ this is for you if you love collecting badges. While Holopin already provides badge boards that can be easily embedded on GitHub and GitLab. You can now also add markdown badges to your READMEs.

Generate a Topmate.io badge that can be easily added in READMEs on GitHub or any other webpage. You can style your profile README with the badge to connect seamlessly with your mentees in the open-source community.

Peerlist is a community of working professionals focused on building a personal brand, sharing professional content, and finding peers to collaborate with. A Peerlist profile can be used as a simple resume or a complete portfolio to showcase your work. You can style your README.md with an awesome Peerlist markdown badge. This has now been integrated into the official Peerlist platform, try it out here: peerlist.io/tools/readme-badge

HackOdisha 2.0 is a hackathon that aims to bring creatives and developers together to solve some of the most pressing problems faced by communities all over the world. This 36-hour-long event will bring together technocrats from all over India. I was honored to be one of the judges and mentored the participants with their projects.

Mentored a winning team in Smart India Hackathon 2022, an initiative by the Government of India. Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving. Learn more here: https://www.sih.gov.in/

I spoke about open-source culture and the benefits of making the products open-source in a panel of six, fellow GitHub Stars and the CEO of Nhost.

Interviewed 10 of my fellow GitHub Stars and crafted their journey into a blogpost. Becoming a GitHub Star was not a goal for any of us; it was a byproduct of a lot of hard work and making open source a huge part of our lives. Learn from the journey of 10 amazing software developers who are a part of the GitHub Stars Program.

My journey from being a GitHub user to becoming a GitHub Star got featured in a newspaper.