Rupansh Sekar
Rust Developer at Overclock
Chandigarh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRupansh Sekar is a Rust developer and seasoned full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, kernel-level tooling, and blockchain integrations from Chandigarh, India. He has held senior Rust roles across startups and web3 firms—most recently at Overclock and previously leading engineering efforts at Yral and SupraOracles—bringing production-grade systems thinking to low-level and distributed problems. A Linux kernel hacker and polyglot (C, Python, Kotlin, Nim, Rust), he blends performance-minded systems work with practical application features, such as his notable contributions to Telegram projects where he improved sticker/image handling and memory efficiency for widely used bots and libraries. His background in mechanical engineering gives him a pragmatic, hardware-aware approach to software design and optimization. Active in open source, he’s contributed to grammers (telegram.rs) and Paperplane, demonstrating both API-level refinements and user-facing feature delivery. Colleagues describe him as a Rustacean who pairs meticulous refactoring with meaningful product impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at UIET Panjab University
Github Skills (18)
rust-lang10
telegram-vc-bot10
lib10
telethon10
telegram-api10
python10
apidoc10
image-processing10
mtproto10
api10
image-processor10
telegram-bot10
rust10
software-design9
apim9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Lonami/grammers
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
(tele)gramme.rs - use Telegram's API from Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 32 commits, 14 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rupansh primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the grammers library, implementing and refactoring methods for interacting with the Telegram API. They added functionality such as `get_reply_to_message`, `from_id` and also added and adjusted methods for use with bots. Furthermore, they refactored and added improvements to the build process.
apirust-librarytelegram-botrustapi-s
RaphielGang/Telegram-Paperplane
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
The Paperplane userbot project - a Telegram userbot helping to improve your Telegram experience. https://t.me/tgpaperplane
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 21 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rupansh primarily contributed to the Telegram userbot's functionality, focusing on adding features related to sticker management and image handling within the Telegram ecosystem. They implemented a "kang" feature for cloning stickers, including support for animated stickers, and also enhanced image processing capabilities. Further contributions involved optimizing the code for memory efficiency, addressing potential memory leaks and refactoring existing modules.
telegram-botpythonbotuserbottelegram
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