Navin Karkera
Senior Open Source Developer at OpenCraft
Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNavin Karkera is a Senior Open Source Developer with 9 years of experience building backend systems, automation tooling, and web applications from startup to enterprise scale. Based in Mangaluru, he has driven key projects at OpenCraft and previously built division-wide automation (DocKit) and ETL/reporting solutions at UBS and Bank of America using Python, Flask/FastAPI, Airflow and Pandas. He contributes to the high-profile Open edX edx-platform repository, focusing on Django backend fixes, Celery refactors and APIs for courseware metadata. Comfortable across deployment and DevOps concerns (Azure, systemd, nginx, Docker), he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex regulatory and educational requirements into reliable, auditable systems—and he often surfaces clever automation (notably notebook-to-LaTeX/document pipelines) that saves teams significant time.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, B.E, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Shree L. R. Tiwari college of engineeringDIPLOMA, Industrial Electronics, DIPLOMA, Industrial Electronics at Vidyavardhimi’s Bahusaheb Vartak PolytechnicS.S.C, S.S.C at Mother Mary’s English High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Tulu
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Github Skills (8)
backend10
data-service10
python10
webservice10
django10
apidoc9
api9
celery7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:246 reviews, 10 commits, 115 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Navin contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the edx-platform repository, focusing on the backend logic. Their work includes modifying Django-based applications, addressing issues in site configuration, and handling settings related to courseware and the completion aggregator. They also refactored Celery configuration and implemented an API for block metadata.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
navinkarkera/urja-site
May 2020 - Jan 2021
This is a Website for Urja Trust
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
javascriptreacttrust
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