Kaushal Modi is a Principal Design Verification Engineer with 12+ years at Analog Devices, specializing in digital design verification and leading complex SoC verification efforts from senior engineer to principal level. He combines deep hardware verification expertise with pragmatic software skills—regularly contributing to open-source projects in Emacs, Hugo, Nim, and Go—demonstrating fluency across tooling, build pipelines, and language ecosystems. Kaushal’s OSS work includes enhancements to widely used projects like Hugo and the Emacs swiper/use-package ecosystem, plus language tooling for Nim and syntax highlighting for Org mode, reflecting a knack for developer experience and documentation automation. His background spans system-level verification, scripting, and CI/CD for docs and site builds, bridging hardware correctness with reproducible software workflows. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs academic foundations in electrical engineering with a long track record of pragmatic engineering, from Verilog transmitter design to terminal styling and Org-to-Hugo publishing features.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University
B.E. Electronics and Communication, B.E. Electronics and Communication at Gujarat University
Primary and Higher Secondary School, Primary and Higher Secondary School at St Xavier's High School
A carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 1721 commits, 265 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Kaushal's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality of the ox-hugo package. They added features to support Hugo front-matter variables, including support for custom and nested front-matter elements, as well as support for the Hugo Series and Tags with categories, and setting publication and last-modified dates. The contributions involve modifying Emacs Lisp code to interact with the Hugo ecosystem.
Contributions:100 commits, 140 PRs, 158 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaushal primarily worked on the front-end aspect of the Hugo documentation website. They made updates to the `list.html` layout file, modifying how sections and pages are displayed, and fixed an issue related to bundles. Additionally, the user updated the `app.bundle.js` file, which likely involved changes to the site's interactive elements and user interface features, including the anchor links in headings. They also updated the 'edit this page' link.
gohugohugo-sitehugohugo-docs
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