Aditya Borikar
Staff Engineer at Prisma AIRS by Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAditya Borikar is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems, currently focused on Python Notebooks for GIS workflows and now working at Protect AI in Seattle. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and has a track record at startups spanning web3 and B2B SaaS, blending product-minded engineering with practical system design. His open-source contributions include impactful backend work on the widely used igniterealtime/Smack XMPP library—optimizing multi-user chat management, tightening error handling, and adding XEP-0118 UserTune support. Comfortable across cloud-backed services and JVM/Python ecosystems, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-grade discipline to distributed systems. An understated strength is his ability to translate niche protocol-level improvements into measurable reliability gains for end users.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelors Information Technology, Bachelors Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Github Skills (6)
javas10
xmpp10
java10
smack10
xml9
android8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Smack
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 34 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aditya made several contributions to the `igniterealtime/smack` repository, focusing on improving the XMPP client library. Their work included optimizing the `MultiUserChatManager` by saving an instance of `ServiceDiscoveryManager`, preventing extremely long reply timeouts, and replacing generic exceptions with type-specific ones for better error handling. Additionally, the user added support for XEP-0118: UserTune, enabling the communication of music information and addressing related issues. Furthermore, the user has corrected minor syntax and made minor code improvements to existing files.
androidjavaxmppxmpp-client-libraryandroid-library
adiaholic/Smack
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
Contributions:2 PRs, 650 pushes, 54 branches in 3 years 7 months
vmsxmppclient-libraryandroidjava-se
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