Shankar Prasad
Senior Project Manager at Megdap Innovation Labs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShankar Prasad is a Senior Project Manager with 18 years of experience combining project leadership, technical translation, and software localization for major open-source ecosystems. He led Kannada localization across Red Hat, Fedora, GNOME, KDE, LibreOffice and Firefox, coordinating testing, QA and documentation for RHEL and Fedora UIs while mentoring volunteer contributors. Comfortable bridging technical and cultural needs, he initiated a Fedora special interest group to capture contextual information for translatable entries—boosting translation quality beyond standard string work. A RHCSA-certified Linux practitioner, Shankar also has a research background in materials science and a track record of published tech articles in Kannada, reflecting a rare blend of engineering rigor and community-focused communication.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Materials Science, M.Sc, Materials Science at Javahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Balehonnuru
JCBM College Sringeri
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (103)
gtk10
pygobject10
gnome10
gnome-shell10
gtk-rs10
internationalization9
gift9
localization9
glib9
control-center9
hijri9
gedit9
translation9
nautilus9
mozilla9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/pontoon-intro
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Introduction to Pontoon
Contributions:2 commits in 2 years 5 months
javascriptpontoon
GNOME/gnome-initial-setup
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup
Contributions:12 commits in 7 months
gnome-shell-extensiongnomeinitialinitial-setup
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