Sourav Badami
Co-Founder at OWASP Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSourav Badami is an entrepreneurial software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing products and leading open-source projects from Bengaluru. As co-founder of Timepass and Simple Viral Games, he designs bite-sized, social-first gaming experiences and scalable entertainment platforms for India’s mass market. His background spans full-stack delivery at companies like GoTo Group and Honeywell, and he has deep frontend and backend chops demonstrated by contributions to notable open-source projects such as Oppia (UI improvements) and DuckDuckGo’s Fathead parser. An active leader in OWASP—serving as project leader and long-time GSoC mentor—he blends product velocity with security and maintainability. He also co-founded UdhaarKhaata, working on fintech infrastructure for millions of small businesses, showing a knack for building practical systems at scale. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on builder who pairs startup grit with a commitment to clean, community-oriented code.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering at Haldia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (25)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
python10
css10
angularjs10
html10
instantsearch10
material-icons9
printing9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
web-content8
webpages8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 21 PRs, 24 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sourav primarily contributed to the Python-based back-end logic of the DuckDuckGo instant answers project. They focused on refactoring and enhancing the `lib/fathead/python/redirect.py` and `lib/fathead/python/parse.py` files. Their contributions included fixing bugs, adding features related to disambiguation, and improving the parsing and processing of data within the system, with emphasis on handling Python built-in functions.
pythonjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersruby
oppia/oppia
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 47 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sourav primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Oppia platform. Their work focused on improving the user interface, fixing alignment issues, and enhancing the visual presentation of various components, including the welcome modal, exploration summary tiles, and language selector. They also replaced image assets with material icons and addressed text rendering issues on Firefox. These changes aimed to improve user experience and visual consistency across the platform.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
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