Sahil Batra
Software Engineer at Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)
Surat, Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSahil Batra is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on back-end development and open source collaboration, currently contributing at Kandra Labs on the Zulip team. He has a track record of improving code readability and maintainability in a major open-source chat platform, including refactors and API work to enable guest access and better user management. A Google Summer of Code alumnus and long-time Zulip contributor, Sahil blends academic grounding from IIT Jodhpur in electrical and electronics engineering with practical engineering on large, production-grade systems. Based in Surat, India, he enjoys learning new technologies and consistently leverages open-source engagement to drive feature-ready, maintainable server-side solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Github Skills (6)
python10
django10
refactor9
apidoc9
refactoring9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Jan 2019 - 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:2458 reviews, 1045 commits, 628 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sahil made several code changes focused on refactoring and updating the codebase related to user management and API functionality within the Zulip server. Their work primarily involved renaming functions and updating data types, which appears to be in preparation for new features related to guest user access control. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving code readability and maintainability, suggesting a role in the back-end development of the project.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
sahil839/zulip
Jan 2019 - Apr 2025
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:2385 pushes, 569 branches in 6 years 4 months
team-chatchatzulip
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