Biswadeep Purkayastha
Software Development Engineer Intern at HackerRank
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBiswadeep Purkayastha is a final-year BTech student at IIT Mandi and a software engineer with three years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and contributing to open source. He has interned at BNY and HackerRank, worked on backend tooling like Intel’s cve-bin-tool and improved documentation for SymPy, highlighting a mix of engineering and technical writing strengths. Comfortable across C++, Python, Java, Spring Boot, and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Next.js), he pairs frontend polish with backend robustness. His Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation/Python Software Foundation contributions show a commitment to community-driven software and developer experience. As a mentor at Newton School he translated technical knowledge into teaching, reinforcing clear communication and user-focused design. Based in Bengaluru, he’s driven by projects that combine practical impact with elegant code, and often gravitates toward improving accessibility and documentation in complex projects.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Physics Mathematics Chemistry English Computer Science, High School Diploma Physics Mathematics Chemistry English Computer Science at Delhi Public School, Ruby ParkBachelor of Technology - BTech double major in Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech double major in Computer Science Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (15)
restructuredtext10
pytest10
python10
documentation10
refactoring9
security8
vulnerability8
security-scan8
security-txt8
sbom6
devsecops5
computer-algebra4
mathematics4
computer-algebra-system4
math4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
intel/cve-bin-tool
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The CVE Binary Tool helps you determine if your system includes known vulnerabilities. You can scan binaries for over 350 common, vulnerable components (openssl, libpng, libxml2, expat and others), or if you know the components used, you can get a list of known vulnerabilities associated with an SBOM or a list of components and versions.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 25 commits, 41 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Biswadeep primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring efforts within the CVE Binary Tool project. Their work included disabling failing tests for Python 3.7, refactoring the code to use pathlib for file path manipulation, and updating type syntax in checker modules. The user also added new functionality, such as updating the number of checkers in the documentation and adding new checkers like Firefox, Thunderbird, and QEMU.
scanpythonsystem-toolslibxml2bugbounty
sympy/sympy
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 22 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Biswadeep primarily contributed to documentation updates within the repository. Their commits involve modifying reStructuredText files, focusing on clarifying function usage, adding installation instructions, and improving the overall clarity of the documentation. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the accessibility and usability of the project's documentation.
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
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