Vinit Shahdeo

My journey got featured by the News Khajana.

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.

Sharing my open-source journey with Young Influx.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.