Tarashish Mishra
Software Engineer at Development Seed
Oregon, India
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Top SchoolTarashish Mishra is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and data pipelines, currently contributing at Development Seed from Oregon. He has a strong track record in Python and Go, improving storage, extraction, and protocol libraries for notable open-source projects such as Oppia, Aleph, and the h2 HTTP/2 implementation. At OCCRP he built infrastructure and tools that power investigative journalism, and his contributions to opensanctions and scraping tools show a focus on data extraction, normalization, and resilience. A fast, independent learner, he frequently refactors services to modernize architectures (gRPC migrations, Django transaction support) and adds practical features like GeoExtractor-based analyzers. He enjoys hacking on OSS to make useful, real-world systems incrementally better and seeks challenging problems that have social impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar
English, Hindi, Odia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
entity-extraction10
pytest10
python10
django10
testing10
data-modeling10
http10
microservices-application10
polyglot10
data-parsing10
webscraping10
lua10
spacy10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alephdata/aleph
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Search and browse documents and data; find the people and companies you look for.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 424 commits, 127 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tarashish primarily refactored and updated entity extractors to align with a new gRPC schema, improving the structure of the codebase for the `alephdata/aleph` repository. The user implemented code changes to the `services/extract-spacy/service.py` and `services/extract-polyglot/service.py` files which involved changes to the entity extractor and setup files for said services. Additionally, the user added a country name analyzer that uses the GeoExtractor microservice, further expanding the functionality of the project.
lookinvestigative-journalismpythondata-searchgraph-database
opensanctions/opensanctions
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
An open database of international sanctions data, persons of interest and politically exposed persons
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tarashish contributed primarily to the development of data extraction and processing scripts for various international sanctions lists and related data sources. They focused on creating memorious crawlers to fetch and parse data from sources like Switzerland's SECO sanctions, the UK's HMT sanctions, and Canada's DFATD sanctions, as well as Interpol Red Notices. Their work involved writing Python code to interact with different APIs and data formats, extract relevant information, and transform data into a consistent format for the opensanctions database. The user also made contributions to the data models and dependencies.
investigationspersonssanction-listsinterestmoney-laundering
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