Karan Palan
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolKaran Palan is a driven sophomore software engineer from Mumbai with two years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications using the MERN stack and contributing actively to open source. A two-time Google Summer of Code contributor (Sugarlabs 2024, JSON Schema 2025), he has implemented builder integrations and is currently defining linting rules for JSON Schema while mentoring new contributors. A five-time hackathon winner and finalist in global competitions like Imagine Cup and Soonami Venturethon, he pairs rapid prototyping skills with a growing interest in blockchain, smart contracts, and ML. He focuses deliberately on a few technical areas this year to deepen expertise rather than spreading thin, and maintains a public portfolio of projects at https://contrilab.in/karan-palan.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science (AI and ML), Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science (AI and ML) at Manipal University Jaipur
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (171)
json-schema10
design-patterns10
chat10
internal-developer-platform10
cloud-native10
opa10
ux-design10
schemastore10
kubernetes-operator10
meshery10
golang10
webassembly10
music10
kubernetes10
asyncapi10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Karan-Palan/core
Feb 2025 - Jan 2026
A comprehensive set of foundational C++ libraries and CMake utilities to power Sourcemeta projects
Contributions:37 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
Karan-Palan/json-schema-lint-rules
May 2025 - Sep 2025
A collection of lint rules for JSON Schema with metadata, examples, and documentation generation.
Contributions:2 reviews, 19 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 months
json-schema
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