Jay Prakash
Software Engineer at The World Bank
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Prakash is a software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems and currently contributing to The World Bank using TypeScript, Redux, and Docker. He led development on SurveyStream at IDinsight, shipping survey management features that balance scalability and field usability. An active open-source contributor and recognized Wikimedian of the Year tech innovator, he has extended Wikimedia tooling—adding multi-language support to the widely used pywikibot library and improving MediaWiki maintenance script documentation. His background spans product-facing engineering and documentation work, from QR-code and Web-API demos in Google Summer of Code to Flask + React tools for lexeme and book workflows. Based in New Delhi and trained in computer engineering (B.Tech), he blends pragmatic backend engineering with a knack for developer tooling and multilingual platform integrations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, First Division, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, First Division at Bharat Institute of Technology, Meerut
Hindi, Sanskrit, fiji hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
mediawiki10
wikimedia10
python10
wikipedia10
api-client10
localization8
internationalization8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/pywikibot
Jul 2017 - May 2020
A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jay contributed to the pywikibot library by adding configurations and functionalities for various Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, and Wikisource in several languages. Their work involved modifying family files to include language-specific settings, as well as adapting scripts like `clean_sandbox.py`, `category_redirect.py`, and `reflinks.py` to support new languages. These changes primarily involved adding new language configurations and templates for specific wiki projects, expanding the library's support for the Wikimedia ecosystem.
pythonsubmitwikidatawikipediawikia
indictechcom/IndicBot
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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