Kartik Talwar
Co-Founder at A.Capital Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Talwar is a seasoned technologist and founder with 15 years of experience building developer-focused tools and APIs from San Francisco. As Co-Founder of ETHGlobal and General Partner at A.Capital Ventures, he blends hands-on engineering with early-stage investing and community-driven developer initiatives. His open-source work spans backend and frontend projects—contributing advanced mathematical functions to numbers.js, a Python Duolingo API, and a Gmail JavaScript API—demonstrating fluency across languages and domains. Early roles at SV Angel, Salesforce, and the University of Waterloo grounded him in infrastructure and API development while he studied astrophysics, reflecting a strong analytical foundation. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that turns research-grade ideas into usable libraries and platform features. He often bridges product and developer ecosystems, shipping thoughtful integrations that enable others to build faster.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Astrophysics, Astrophysics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (21)
algorithm10
algorithms10
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
data-manipulation10
mathematics10
statistics10
math10
data-structure10
api10
gmail-api10
data-structures10
unit-testing9
chrome-extension9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KartikTalwar/Duolingo
Jul 2013 - Nov 2019
Unofficial Duolingo API Written in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 23 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kartik primarily contributed to building an unofficial Duolingo API using Python. Their work involved implementing core functionalities such as retrieving user data, fetching language details, and retrieving progress data, by adding several methods. Further the user has implemented functionality to login to DuoLingo and switch languages and added dependencies to support the api. The user also added the necessary setup files to upload the library.
python
KartikTalwar/gmail.js
Sep 2013 - Apr 2017
Gmail JavaScript API
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:297 commits, 59 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kartik's commits primarily focus on building a JavaScript API for Gmail. The contributions involve creating functions to check various Gmail features like preview pane, tabbed inbox, and right-side chat, utilizing the JavaScript language. Further functionality was added with new features like getting unread email counts for different sections, showing the breadth of features added. The user is implementing various checks and helpers to interact with the Gmail UI.
gmailjavascript-apijavascriptchrome-extension
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