Omkar Phansopkar
Software Engineer at Google Summer of Code
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolOmkar Phansopkar is a software engineer based in Mumbai with six years of experience building web applications and contributing to open-source projects. He has worked across startups and major companies, including PayPal and nexB, and served as both a Google Summer of Code contributor and mentor for AboutCode. Omkar focuses on front-end experience—improving blog UI/UX, dynamic content loading, and responsive media handling in notable projects like Layer5—while also exploring ML and blockchain. He combines full-stack internship experience with practical production exposure from SafeDep and LitWiz Labs, making him comfortable across the stack from UX to backend integrations. Known for shipping thoughtful UI improvements (carousel, related-posts display, aspect-ratio fixes) he brings attention to detail and user-centric thinking. Always curious and eager to learn, he pairs mentorship and community contributions with hands-on development in production environments.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BTech Computer Science & Engineering (Data Science), BTech Computer Science & Engineering (Data Science) at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri MumbaiDiploma Computer Engineering, Diploma Computer Engineering at Government Polytechnic Mumbai
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
blogpost10
gatsbyjs10
blogger10
javascript10
blogspot10
react10
cloud-native8
visualizations7
visualization7
neural-network6
html6
deep-learning6
logistic-regression6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
layer5io/layer5
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Layer5, expect more from your infrastructure
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 32 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Omkar primarily contributed to the front-end of the Layer5 repository, focusing on the blog section. They implemented dynamic fetching of blog posts within the latest posts section and made modifications to the styling of the blog sidebar. Furthermore, the user removed hardcoded image heights to maintain aspect ratios and also worked on the display of related posts, and incorporated a carousel for better presentation. Overall, their work centered on improving the user interface and blog functionality.
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OmkarPh/scancode-workbench
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
:bar_chart: ScanCode Workbench is a desktop app to review and conclude license and origin from code scans generated by ScanCode Toolkit. Contributed in this project during GSoC
Contributions:8 PRs, 131 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years
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