Narasimha Prasanna
Independent Research Engineer, Founding Team at OpenVision.AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNarasimha Prasanna is an independent research engineer and platform architect with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, microservice-driven systems and AI tooling. Currently on the founding team at OpenCyberspace.org and serving as Chief Platform Architect at OpenVision.AI, he blends product thinking with systems architecture to move research into production. He has deep backend and systems expertise—contributing C-level improvements to popular open-source projects like woltapp/blurhash and safety fixes to the Ethereum Fe parser—alongside practical experience in Python, Go, Node.js, Kubernetes and databases. His work spans building developer-facing utilities (e.g., a CLI for proxy SMS workflows) to designing NLP and IoT backends, reflecting a preference for solving messy integration problems. A former technical writer for Towards Data Science and an instructor, he communicates complex ideas clearly and trains teams to adopt robust engineering practices. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and code-first—“code wins arguments”—who quietly surfaces reliability issues before they become outages.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Github Skills (31)
algorithms10
image-processing10
analyzer10
c1110
c1710
go10
ethereum10
golang10
rust10
parserator9
apidoc9
parser9
privacy9
api9
smart-contracts9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Narasimha1997/fake-sms
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
A simple command line tool using which you can skip phone number based SMS verification by using a temporary phone number that acts like a proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Narasimha primarily focused on developing and refining the backend functionality of the command-line tool. Their contributions involved implementing features such as retrieving temporary phone numbers, querying SMS messages, and storing data using a local database. They also added a filtering mechanism for messages using regular expressions and improved error handling and the overall structure of the application. Furthermore, the user changed the service provider to get phone numbers from.
golangcommand-line-toolpythonphonephone-number
woltapp/blurhash
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 21 days
Contributions summary:Narasimha primarily focused on implementing and improving the C implementation for the Blurhash decoder within the repository. Their contributions involved adding new APIs, fixing bugs, and adding support for RGB color channels. The user made significant changes to the `decode.c` and `decode.h` files, which included adding new functions and modifying existing ones to improve functionality and resolve potential issues. Furthermore, the user addressed formatting issues such as trailing whitespace and ensuring a newline at the end of files.
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