Pranam Lashkari
Software Engineer at Boost
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolPranam Lashkari is a software engineer with nine years’ experience building C/C++ and JavaScript systems, currently contributing to Collabora’s LibreOffice/Collabora Online and serving on The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee. He combines a deep interest in data structures, algorithms and image processing with a strong open-source track record—co-maintaining Boost.GIL and implementing core image algorithms such as convolution and boundary extension. A two-time Google Summer of Code alumnus who later mentored and administered GSoC projects, he brings both hands-on implementation and mentorship experience to large community projects. Comfortable across back-end and front-end work, he has optimized mobile UI behavior in Collabora Online and improved LibreOffice core APIs and test suites, showing an unusual blend of low-level algorithmic work and user-facing polish. Based in Rajkot, India, he prefers to keep his work openly available, with all contributions published as open source.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at VVP Engineering College - IndiaHigher Secondary School, Science, Higher Secondary School, Science at Innovative School
English, Gujarati, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
javascript10
c-language10
image-processing10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
annotations9
mobile-development9
rasterize9
refactor9
annotation-processing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CollaboraOnline/online
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:306 reviews, 406 commits, 804 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pranam primarily contributed to the front-end development of Collabora Online, focusing on user interface enhancements and bug fixes. They optimized the user interface for mobile use by addressing issues with dropdowns and the layout. They also made multiple improvements and fixes related to text input, annotation, and the appearance of elements in different document types (text, presentation).
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boostorg/gil
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 17 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pranam primarily contributed to the Boost.GIL library by implementing and refactoring image processing algorithms. Their work includes adding new functionalities like the `convolve` function, as well as implementing algorithms for image boundary extension. These changes involved modifications to core image processing algorithms, and unit tests, demonstrating a focus on image processing and library development.
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