Prakhar Pratyush
Software Engineer at Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)
India
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Top SchoolPrakhar Pratyush is a software engineer with six years of backend-focused experience, currently working full-time on the popular open-source chat platform Zulip. He has driven high-impact features like "Follow Topics" and "unmute topics in muted streams," contributed to notification and topic-management subsystems, and improved code clarity and database efficiency across the Zulip server. A Google Summer of Code alumnus and later mentor, he blends real-world product work with open-source mentorship and has a track record of shipping user-requested features that appear in release highlights. His stack experience spans Python/Django and Go, with practical engineering wins such as automating sitemap generation and optimizing tag merging to reduce manual effort by 90%. Based in India and an NIT Hamirpur alumnus, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with a habit of improving developer ergonomics through thoughtful refactors and robust tests.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering, CGPA: 8.5, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering, CGPA: 8.5 at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
testing10
database-management9
message-queue8
django-templates6
django-models6
material-ui6
frontend6
javascript6
django-forms6
django-views6
react6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:827 reviews, 8 commits, 280 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Prakhar focused on enhancing the Zulip server, specifically improving topic management and notification systems. They updated tests to leverage the `time_machine` module and to verify end-to-end behaviors. Their contributions included renaming and refactoring functions and components, such as `get_muted_topics`, to improve readability and support for various visibility policies. Furthermore, they refactored code blocks related to message editing and merging user topic states for better code clarity and database efficiency.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
prakhar1144/Track-S
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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