My Git starts off with a hello world.
Hey guys, My name is Adithya, and I'm using my GitHub account for the first time even though i've had it for multiple days till now. Feel free to give me advice or feedback, I'll take it as constructive criticism. Peace!
I'm glad to say that I'm working a lot more on code now, and have been using GitHub a lot more. While I haven't made any significant contribution to any large scale project yet, I have learnt to use VCS and GitHub better. I've tried to work on a variety of projects and would like to show them off.
Java-Grip : A compilation of Java Programs that I've worked on. tinyApps : A few small scale apps that I've developed on an impulse. TheDescend : A game project on building a Dungeon RPG. Tul's Corp : A collaborative project on making a text based office game, that I've worked on.
It has been a long time since an update, but, here's what I've done over the course of 8 months. In terms of contributions, I've only contributed a single line of code to rptools/maptools, and yet have to add in support for local assets in the application. I've also changed my account name from Naruita to dat-adi, and have worked on multiple repositories.
I've learnt how to work with Python a lot more in depth than before, and my
repository for small applications called tinyApps has come a long way with
new features, comprising of an automated annotation maker of the files present
in a directory, and a web scraping EPUB maker. Now, the tools that I can use
have grown a lot larger, requiring a list of sorts,
- Beautiful Soup
- PostgreSQL
- Tkinter
- XML -> EPUB Conversion
- Django Based Web Development
- Working with VIM as a text editor
I'm currently directing a team to build a Django-based centralized hub for the Winter Season of Code. I'm also a technical writer for JournalDev, and write articles on Python modules.
Time Tabler : An experiment of trying to automate my timetable for college, with the script being able to automatically open up the classes. Eisen's Tickets : An application made to learn the implementation of Databases, Tkinter, and Python.
It's been about 4 months since an update, so here I am.
The Django-based project that I have headed for the duration of 3-4 months
concluded on March 1st.
The project is known as OSCHub,
and I'm pretty proud of it.
This project has been given the position of the best project in WSoC2020,
and I'm pretty stoked about it.
OSCHub is currently being improved further however, in order to get it to a true production level stage where students can register for events through it's portal.
I have now officially converted to Linux. It was just a leap that was long overdue.
I took it.
I've started the journey with Ubuntu but, while it was nice. It wasn't enough of a
challenge.
Upon further research into Linux distros, I decided that one more leap wouldn't hurt.
So, I picked Arch Linux.
I can't say that I'm sorry however.
Keeping aside the first few weeks where I struggled with Internet, Audio, and
Window Managers, I genuinely enjoy working on a new environment now.
A list of things that I discovered on Arch Linux are,
- Qtile
- Symlinked Dotfiles
- Alacritty
- Doom Emacs
- Pain
And, getting to the skillset that I've developed, from the last time,
- Technical Writing
- I'm seriously clueless.
- I hit gold in Valorant.
I now spend my days working towards management more than coding, as the Open Source Community begins to work on larger projects, and I direct and support the community as a Vice President.
OSCHub : A Centralized Hub for Event Management, made under the Winter Season of Code Initiative.
It's been a year since an update, and there's been quite a few changes.
Quite a bit too much to record honestly, but I'll try!
Career-wise? I've progressed to become the President of the Open Source Community of VIT-AP (05/21), and had OSCHub deployed to be used actively by the community for event management. I'm yet to start interning at Price Waterhouse Coopers, I'm to be a Technical Consultant in a month or so.
Configuration-wise? I've made quite a few changes to the way I work on code, or just use my laptop in general. I now run Arch on a Lenovo Legion 5. I currently use Sway, a wayland compositor, and I really like it, more details about the configuration can be found here.
I use DOOM Emacs for note-taking extensively now. With notes, and journal entries being my form of expressing what I'm learning, it's a pretty great application! I've also joined a few organizations, such as Agni for the development of a university management system, and ForgeFlux to develop on API-space software forge federation tech.
Just as a sidenote, the refresh rate and the smoothness of a new laptop is amazing on Arch. Of course, I did have to dual boot it with Windows since I do game as well. Ahem, platinum 1 on Valorant, ahem.
I'm back at the college right now, and if I'm accurate about my calendar, I have one more month left until I'm done with college physically. It feels kinda weird considering that I did most of my education at home with covid around the corner. I'm not sure how I feel about the end yet. I did have fun with college while it lasted I suppose, found some really cool friends, and met some really smart people.
I finally feel like I've found a field that I'm interested in, wouldn't mind pursuing and which actually intrigues me into performing experiments, Software-Defined Networking. I'm currently working on a project in the same domain, which I might not be allowed to speak about yet, but if everything goes well, I think I'll end up with a research paper and some credit to my name. The toolkit that I'm using and actively trying to work more with only grows vaster,
- VirtualBox / QEMU
- Mininet / Mininet-Wifi
- Wireshark
- Floodlight Controller
- OpenDaylight Controller
- Ryu Controller
The Open Source Community has been handed over to the successors of the source. It was a fun run being part of the community, and frankly, I don't think I would have learnt what it was like being part of the management if I was never a part of it. Right about now, I can organize hackathons, codeathons, bootcamps, tech talks, summer of codes, web hunts, and linux conversion days. Moreover, I've set up the digital space for the community at GitHub, Discord, and Matrix. I've learnt a lot, and I hope that the future generations of OSC learn just as much.
With regards to my career, I've finished my tenure at PwC as a Technical Consultant, it was a very weird experience considering that whenever I received work, it was on a very short deadline, and they expected accurate results in the required timeframe. But, on the other hand, there were periods where I didn't receive any work at all, this was cool too since I got to explore SDNs and revise the fundamental networking concepts. I did mess around with novel crawlers again during this timeframe, and managed to rework the model leveraging the capabilities of Redis. It was a fruitful learning experience where I worked with rq as well.
That was quite a bit, I'll wrap up by saying that I hit Diamond 1 in Valorant. ;)
I'm out of college! No, I don't mean dropped out. But, I don't have to stay at the college and attend courses offline anymore.
I'm not going to write too much about the past year, despite it being really cool simply because I wrote a post about it instead. I haven't quite discovered or learnt anything new per se with regards to tech, but I did manage to fix up my neovim environment to work much better.
I don't know how, but I'm Ascendant 1 in Valorant now.
I'm at the end of yet another arc in my life. Here's a list of things that I've done over the course of the past six months.
- Joined as an Intern at Bajaj Markets.
- Got put into the Data Engineering Team (!?)
- Found out that Data Engineering was actually fun.
- Met some amazing people in and out of the team.
- Built a robust and extensible data migration pipeline from scratch.
- Published two research papers on SDNs: Advanced Networking Applications and ASM-SDN.
Despite doing a decent chunk of work, somehow it still feels like I haven't quite gotten anywhere and that I've wasted the past few months for some reason. I don't know why, and even worse is that I don't know where to start understanding why. Oh, and I've also been working out, which is cool. I'm healthy now.
With respect to my technical knowledge growth, there are a few things that I can point out to be softwares that I use on a regular basis while at work, here's a list,
- Pydantic.
- Pandas, Polars, Pyarrow.
- Apache Spark, DuckDB.
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon Redshift.
- PL/SQL.
- Design Patterns, GPSG.
It does dawn upon me that, despite working on cool new things, I'm still missing something, but I can't place my finger on it. I've discovered better coding guidelines, optimized thought processes and have adopted a lot of great coding standards. The world too is in a weird place right now that I'm not sure whether to look at as the "go-to" spot.
It's a pretty weird state of affairs. But, hey, it's starting to rain in Pune. This means that I can go on all kinds of treks now. I can't wait.
dat-adi