Kshitij Sobti
Software Developer at Freelance
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolKshitij Sobti is a software developer based in Delhi with 10 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently contributing at OpenCraft while freelancing as a web developer and technical writer. He has hands-on full-stack experience and notable open-source contributions, including improving Batavia (a JavaScript implementation of the Python VM) by adding operator overloading, tests, and build optimizations. On the backend he enhanced reporting features for the widely used Open edX platform, adding metadata and filtering that improve instructor analytics. Trained as an electrical engineer from MANIT, he blends systems thinking with practical product-focused engineering and a knack for clear technical documentation. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves between code, reports, and docs to deliver measurable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, B.Tech, Electrical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
operator-overloading10
python10
django10
api-design9
webpacker9
restful-api9
pytest9
webpack9
testing9
rest-api9
api-rest9
databases8
documentation8
database8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:524 reviews, 130 commits, 111 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kshitij primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Open edX platform. Their commits added features to the problem response report generation, including adding block IDs to the report, allowing for filtering by block type and limiting the number of rows. Furthermore, the user enhanced the report to display correct titles, locations, and other helpful metadata. These changes involved modifications to multiple files within the instructor tasks and related APIs to generate the reports.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
beeware/batavia
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
A JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kshitij contributed significantly to improving the Batavia project, a JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine. Their work included enhancing the documentation for built-in functions and speeding up build processes by adding WebPack's cache-loader. Furthermore, they implemented operator overloading features, which involved modifying the virtual machine's core logic to handle user-defined implementations. The user also added tests for the new operator features, showcasing their contribution to both functionality and test coverage.
javascriptpythonvirtual-machine
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