Kumar Kartikay is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building products at Google from his base in Bengaluru. He has recent experience at Microsoft and an internship at Avalara, demonstrating fluency in large-scale engineering environments and enterprise-grade software delivery. An active open-source contributor, he improved critical music-notation features in the popular MuseScore project—fixing import/playback bugs and enhancing text styles—showing attention to correctness in complex domain logic. A National Institute of Technology Hamirpur alumnus in Computer Science, he blends academic foundations with practical contributions across industry and community projects. Colleagues would describe him as a reliable backend-focused engineer who gravitates toward subtle, correctness-driven fixes that improve user-facing behavior.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 60 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kumar primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the MuseScore music notation software. They addressed issues related to importing images attached to rests, loop playback, and the "play repeats" feature in new scores. The user also worked on updating text styles and testing for duplicate names in the palette. Their contributions directly improved the software's ability to handle music notation accurately and reliably.
Contributions:36 commits, 24 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years
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