Umang Kalra
Lead Backend at Eccounting.eco
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Top SchoolUmang Kalra is a founder-led engineering leader and Lead Backend engineer with 7 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems, distributed processing pipelines, and GIS-focused SaaS for UAV survey data. As CEO of Octaflyte he architected ByteGIS from prototype to beta, secured pre-seed grant funding from India’s Ministry of Agriculture, and onboarded enterprise customers while earning selections in programs like AWS Activate and Microsoft Founder Hub. He pairs hands-on backend expertise in Python (Flask, Django, FastAPI, Celery), Postgres/MongoDB/Redis, and analytics stacks (Dask, PySpark) with practical DevOps on AWS/Azure and Docker to deliver production-ready platforms. An active open-source contributor and GSoC ’21 participant, he has improved Godot Engine’s VisualScript editor—demonstrating a knack for UX-sensitive tooling and graph algorithms beyond typical backend work. Known for turning research-driven ideas into MVPs, he blends product curiosity, team-building experience, and domain knowledge in UAV/geospatial workflows to solve real-world mapping problems. Based in New Delhi, he continues to scale teams and products that sit at the intersection of geospatial analytics and collaborative enterprise software.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Programming at Indian Institute of Information Technology, PuneIntermediate Examination, Intermediate Examination at Nehru Memorial Higher Secondary school
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Github Skills (15)
visual10
godot10
script10
game-engine10
vbscript10
scripting10
game-development9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
user-interface8
open-source8
human-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
vector6
multidimensional-arrays6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
godotengine/godot
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 29 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Umang primarily contributed to the Godot Engine's VisualScript editor and GraphEdit module. They fixed a missing description issue in the VisualScript search window. Their work included implementing automatic node arrangement features, adding a button for this function, and fixing a position offset issue with nodes. Additionally, they addressed a variable/signal renaming issue in the VisualScript editor and made nodes enclosed within comment nodes move with the comment node.
godotgamedevgodot-enginegame-development3d-game-engine
theoway/multi-cam-reid
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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