Umang Jain
Staff at Kevalytics Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolUmang Jain is a staff-level embedded and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building upstream-first Linux software, specializing in camera pipelines, ISP integration and resource-constrained consumer platforms. He has driven large mainline contributions—rewriting Raspberry Pi VideoCore ISP interfaces, upstreaming Sony IMX drivers and extending libcamera APIs—while also improving desktop user experience through GNOME and Flatpak work. Comfortable switching between low-level kernel/drivers and user-facing UI improvements, he blends deep platform expertise with practical product delivery for clients and devices. An active open-source maintainer and mentor, he has a track record of turning complex hardware integration challenges into testable, upstreamed solutions and even implemented sandboxed HAL integrations for closed-source IP. Based in Gujarat, India, he combines consulting experience with company leadership, reflecting both technical depth and client-facing communication skills.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, High School, High School Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at Queen of Angels' Convent Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at L.D College of Engineering - Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (11)
c1710
gnome-shell10
javascript10
clutter10
gtk10
c1110
ui-design10
software-update9
linux8
gobject8
ostree7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flatpak/flatpak
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 17 PRs, 164 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Umang contributed to the `flatpak/flatpak` repository, focused on improving the application sandboxing and distribution framework. The commits primarily addressed issues related to installation and update processes, specifically handling related extensions and runtimes. They implemented logic to mark applications as updatable when essential dependencies like runtimes are missing, ensuring smoother updates and resolving potential usability problems. Further commits optimized the framework by caching remote states during the query of installed refs.
sandboxinglinux-applicationlinuxflatpakubuntu
GNOME/gnome-shell
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Umang primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the GNOME Shell. They implemented and refactored password entry fields and related UI components, including the creation of a password entry subclass with a peek-password icon and adjustments to UI dialogs. They also made changes to the login dialog and related components, including modifying and repositioning elements like the session menu and cancel button. The contributions improved visual design consistency, user workflow, and overall usability.
gnome-shell-extensiongnomegitlabgnome-shellshell
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