Summary
Satyakam Goswami is a practitioner-focused technology consultant and community builder with over 30 years of experience helping organizations design, fix, and scale production systems across Linux, Python, Kubernetes, AI, and DevOps. He blends hands-on engineering and operational rigor with systems thinking, favoring practical, long-lived solutions over academic theory. As founder of AFROST and longtime organizer of PyDelhi and contributor to PyCon India, he has mentored and trained 50,000+ engineers and nurtured multiple open-source ecosystems in India. He has advised and partnered with firms like Red Hat, Cadence, Dimagi, and IIIT, and now leads industry-aligned open-source programs as Professor of Practice at OpenSource Science. Beyond consulting, he runs FOSS Journal, capturing real career and business stories in FOSS rather than promotional narratives. Colleagues value him for translating community energy into sustainable programs and for a rare mix of deep technical experience plus long-term mentorship impact.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
National Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu