HardikĀ Katehara
Senior Member Technical at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolHardik Katehara is a Senior Member Technical at D. E. Shaw India with six years of experience building web-focused backend systems and a Computer Science background from BITS Pilani. He brings practical expertise in Python and Django from freelance and internship work, and contributed to the widely used Oppia open-source learning platform during GSoC by adding type annotations, model validation, and refactors that improved code quality. His track record spans industry internships, a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and hands-on roles in product engineering, showing comfort moving between research and production code. Based in Hyderabad, he combines a developer-first mindset with a demonstrated interest in educational technology and maintainable backend architectures.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceSt. Anselm's Pink City Sr. Sec. School
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
mypy10
type-annotations10
python10
back-end-development10
validation9
validations9
linting9
django-models6
django-forms6
django-views6
backend6
redirect6
django6
django-templates6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:612 reviews, 21 commits, 31 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hardik contributed to the Oppia project by modifying and adding type annotations to backend code. Their work involved refactoring and adding validation to various models and controllers, which included changes to docstrings, and deprecated fields. Additionally, the user worked on fixing linting issues to maintain code quality and improve the overall codebase.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
hardikkat24/oppia
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Contributions:12 PRs, 300 pushes, 35 branches in 7 months
quality-educationreactlearning-platformaccessiblejavascript
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