Vinit Shahdeo

API Hacks is a Hackathon Leveraging APIs to Build Unique Solutions. This hackathon is sponsored by Postman, GitHub and Sawo Labs. I am honoured to be a judge for API Hacks 2.0

I spoke about contributing to Postman and AsyncAPI as a student. We had a discussion on Google Summer Of Code and ended up with a note on GitHub Stars Program.

Had a panel discussion to discuss: - Open-Source Best Practices - Making meaningful contributions as beginners - Sneak Peek into community initiatives of our panel members

Calling out Project Maintainers and mentors to guide beginners in kickstarting their open-source journey by completing the Hacktoberfest'21 challenge. I have started this open-source celebration journey with an optimistic vision of hitting the following number: 100 Mentors, 1000 Contributors, 250 Repositories, 500 Issues and 50 Events So far, 190+ mentors and 900+ mentees have joined. We have successfully delivered 10+ events at different engineering colleges in India.

I have started a community-led mentorship initiative for newbies to get started with open-source by completing Hacktoberfest'21 challenge. The idea is connect mentees with mentors and offer them 1:1 sessions to onboard them on GitHub.

Being only GitHub Star from a remote area in Jharkhand, India, I got interviewed by Ranchi Blog to talk about my journey. It was a nice experience sharing my learnings with my native people.

As an early user for GitHub Copilot, I got an opportunity to share my experience with the editor of InfoWorld. I am glad that they have published our reactions to the world.

Today, I kicked off my day with an invitation to start testing GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer! Copilot, like GPT-3, is a game-changer in software development. It's fascinating to see AI being used in coding. After a day of use, I believe AI will undoubtedly lead us to low-code and no-code software development. This AI assistant was trained on a data set with a considerably higher concentration of publicly available source code, and of course it's much more than auto-completion. It learns from you and adapts to your coding style.

A Node.js module to get the latest feed of GitHub Stars out there!

Offering mentorship sessions with Scaler Academy over the weekend, the entire proceeds will be donated to the organizations working for COVID relief activities.

AsyncDiff does exactly what you think it does! The generated diff shows what has changed between v1 and v2 of the document. It’s basically a library which compares two AsyncAPI Documents and generates diff between the two. Diff is needed in the review process, so the reviewer gets an overview of specification changes. The diff can be a part of changelog/release notes, so users can easily spot what parts of the document have changed so they can understand how the changes could affect them. I worked as a mentor the GSoC student who was working for this project by Async API Initiative (in collaboration with Postman)

"Hack The Space" is a 48 Hour Hackathon bought to you by 4 DSCs - UMIT, RJIT, QU and GGGI. The goal of the hackathon is to create functioning software or hardware by the end of the event. I was honored to be one of the judge for "Hack The Space"

My journey got featured by the News Khajana.

I was invited for an AMA session with GirlScript Delhi. GirlScript is a NON PROFIT company registered under the government of India. It supports beginners in technology and programming. It supports diversity by reserving 50% seats for women & LGBT in all it's programs worldwide.

Postman is one of the mentoring organization for GSoC. This year, Postman has AsyncAPI Initiative as part of their team. I will be mentoring an idea for AsyncAPI i.e. AsyncDiff. It's basically a library to compare two AsyncAPI documents and generate diff for the review process.

From a (green) dot to a star, here’s how my journey uncoiled.

Sharing my open-source journey with Young Influx.

Raw talent is a podcast by Developer Student Club TIET where they interview people working in tech - Researchers, Industry Specialists, etc. to get their perspective and also gather some tips on how to get good in this domain and be up to date about the current standards.

Hack the Mountains is organised by J&k First Tech community ‘ Sudans Tech ‘ mainly focussing on providing technical education to students and empowering them all with technical knowledge. I was honoured to be one of the judges for Hack the Mountains 2020 edition.

FOSS Hack 2020 is an online hackathon organized by the FOSS United Foundation to promote the creation and use of FOSS in India. I was honoured to be one of the guest speakers. I spoke about my journey into open-source and how one can make GitHub their homepage.

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. I mentored "Team Hashtag" for Smart India Hackathon 2020 which was conducted on 1st, 2nd and 3rd August. With the team's dedication and efforts, we won the SIH 2020. It was a great opportunity for me to collaborate remotely for the virtual hackathon.

A Node.js script which generates the Map of India in the terminal.

In an exclusive interaction with editor of OSFY, I talked about my contributions to OSS and how newbies starting out can build a career in this domain. My story also got featured in monthly magazine of OSFY.

In an exclusive interaction with TechnoVans, I shared my journey from being curious about how Facebook works back in 2009 to becoming Software Engineer at Postman in 2019.

I got interviewed by Eat My News and I talked about the key skills one need to possess to be a Software Engineer. I shared a piece of advice for aspiring developers.

I was invited by StuCred to conduct a webinar on open source for college students. I helped the attendees to get started with Git & GitHub. I spoke about different open source programs like Google Summer Of Code, Rails Girls Summer Of Code, GirlScript Summer Of Code, Hacktoberfest, etc.

The students in colleges need to connect to industry experts. During corona everyone is lockdown. UseD this time to conduct virtual mentorship sessions for engineering college students.

Coding has been a hot topic for a prolonged time. Everyone wants to be a programmer/developer. But most of us are stuck where, to begin with. A lot of us have a passion for it, just need a path to channel it. And I learned it the hard way, a little late. I'm thankful to Skillenza Hustler Community for providing me a platform to share my coding journey. In collaboration with them, I conducted a YouTube live session which is attended by 200+ students.

Coding has been a hot topic for a prolonged time. Everyone wants to be a programmer/developer. But most of us are stuck where, to begin with. A lot of us have a passion for it, just need a path to channel it. And I learned it the hard way, a little late. I'm thankful to Skillenza Hustler Community for providing me platform to share my coding journey. In collaboration with them, I conducted a YouTube live session which is attended by 100+ students.

I delivered a YouTube live session for the participants of HackOn, a PAN India virtual hackathon. I spoke about event loop in JavaScript and rise of async programming. The session was attended by 150 participants.

A React App to visualize the state-wise 📊 Corona Cases in India!

GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation. I worked as a Project Admin for one of the projects at GSSoC 2020. More than 2000 participants from different countries took part and contributed on GitHub for 43 shortlisted projects.

An IoT based project that helps to monitor the water level in a tank and alerts users in case of an overflow or water depletion. This project aims to save natural resources effectively. The vision for this project is to provide a system for society to overcome water related problems in cities. Water is perhaps the second most important substance on the Earth, after air. This system helps the user to keep a track of the water filling up in the tanks placed on the terrace.

OnLoad is a weekend-long spectacle aimed at bringing together young talented programmers, designers, and developers from across the country to collaborate to build innovative projects from scratch. I got an opportunity to be part of OnLoad 2.0 as a mentor & judge.

I published an article on Fayz, India's largest online canvas for youth. I shared my journey from solving a problem in three days to solving three problems in a day and from being turned down by multiple companies in their final interview rounds to get multiple job offers.

Hack NITP is one of the biggest hackathon organized at NIT Patna. I was invited to be a judge for Hack NITP 3.0, which targets to improve the open sourcing environment and the coding culture of the whole city of Patna and eventually the whole state of Bihar.

InOut is India's biggest community hackathon. I was honored to be a judge of InOut 6.0 which was hosted in the "Silicon Valley of India", Bangalore. It was indeed a great opportunity to learn and connect with an amazing developer's community.

Interning at Postman was an enriching experience and made me appreciate how Abhinav’s side project has become one of the best known developer-first companies in the world. Here, I’m sharing my experience as a Software Engineering Intern at Postman.